Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Overheard on the train

Two women, both aged about fifty, discussing dinner parties:

“…she got her own back though. She took some tinned lychees and served them up on a bed of rice, saying they were sheep’s eyeballs in a rosewater sauce. Sadie took two and put them on her plate, looking all very grim, then she rushed over to the sink and started retching…”

2 comments:

J.O. said...

Nice. like the overheardinnewyork posts, it's zeitgeistic!

a from l said...

There are many characters all around us Joanne.