This weekend we all went out to eat to this yummilicious Colombian restaurant off of Woodhaven Blvd. Me, mami, the babies and Mari.
First let me tell you that when the five of us get together we eat like it's the end of the world. I have no idea why, but it seriously becomes a game of "I Can Eat More Than You" with no one as the winner, except maybe the bathroom scale.
Second, whenever we're all together, we also start in with the silliness and inappropriateness that then leads to infectious giggles that cannot be quelled no matter what. I don't know if it's a product of being Latinas or growing up in a naked house or what, but the stuff we say to each other...
Like when K mentioned she doesn't like to wear pink because it's girlie, and mami told her that she is a girl and that she can verify this by checking her toto, which is Dominican slang for vagina...
Or crazy nonsensical utterings like when Mari said, in the middle of our Bingefest '08 when someone mentioned that perhaps we should stop eating: "It's not over until your belly pops."
Or cricket inducing word vomits, like when N took a whiff of mami's cafecito and said: "Mmmm I love smelling this because it smells like coffee." *sigh*
Or complete Dominican buffoonery at its best, like when mami AGAIN referenced un toto, and then was embarrassed because she remembered that we were in a Colombian restaurant and someone might have heard her. But then when she stated that perhaps they use a different slang word for vagina, Mari comes with: "Yeah, but I feel like the fat guy at the counter knows what it means... I don't like the way he's smiling..."
I absolutely lost it at that point... there was no recovering after "the fat guy at the counter" comment...
*smooches...realizing that perhaps you just had to be there to get it"
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and did I mention that the paella that Mari and I ordered was big enough to feed a small Peruvian village? Yeah, I'm STILL eating the leftovers...
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Good morning, I listened to your radio show last night. Cool points to the guy who took the time to gain free advertisement. Gotta luv that.
This post was funny as usual, kinda reminds me of the extremely hilarious joke I received in my email this morning. Gotta luv that, too.
I love the women in my family. This post made me think of every last one of them and giggle fondly to myself over past get togethers.
If I get your "naked house" comment right, I was raised in one too. Anything and everything is discussed and, if you can't handle it, get out. Ha ha ha!
It also meant that more than one woman in the house and the house basically turns into a locker room. No amount of prudery or self consciousness allowed.
@don- yeah, I didn't mind that he plugged his brother's show... one hand washes the other; we're all trying to make it out here. I'm actually honored that he thought my show was even big enough that people would even hear the plug!
@kelly- sounds like we lived semi-parallel lives; we were "naked" in every sense of the word because there were hardly any men in the family
There are WAY more women than men in my family. Always have been. Out of the 15 cousins (that's just on my mom's side) only two are boys. Poor things. The men in the family learn quickly to either get over themselves or to move on. Ha ha!
lol @ the fat guy eye balling ya'll you never know who understands your slang.
One hand washes the other, exactly. Although it might take two hands to climb mountains.
The Wizard of Oz will never be the same for me. I had no idea.
Toto?
I'll remember that one.
You ladies are hilarious!
Speaking of toto - I'm watching the debate and just picked up on the fact that McCain waddles.
@kelly- maybe it was something in the water when we were kids or something, because the men are scarce over here, too lol
@super dave- the older my mom gets the less she cares about what she says, when she says it, to whom she's saying it and the volume of her voice at the time. I can't wait to be her age!
@don- huh? you gettin all philosophical on me??
@wow- dude, I'm sorry... but how do you think it was for me watching it as a kid.. or listen to the DJs on the radio announce a song by the group Toto?? lol
@clnmike- surprised you didn't already know it
@the f$%k it list- yes, child, and my mom is the ring leader of this here circus
@jack- McCain does a lot of things I don't care for...
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