Tuesday, July 1, 2008

OMG! My Brain's Lost Its Mind Again, But I'm Still Not A Really Mean Girl... Yet

Last night for dinner Mr. Snooty & I had planned to dine on a light meal, since we'd had a rather large lunch. I'd had 4 small artichokes in the fridge for days, so I decided we'd better include them or it might be too late if we waited. Good. Fine. I also decided that we'd have pasta with the chokes, which sounded like the perfect pairing. Good. Fine. Again.



This is what I eventually came up with:



You can click on the picture to see a larger version.

I was halfway through my meal before I realized what I'd done. Does anyone else notice this little *faux pas* or am I the only one who feels that this is completely off the scale of feeble minded thinking? Look at the picture very carefully. Yes, I had opened a large can of artichoke hearts, which I chopped up & added to the pasta & mushrooms. You know, to go with our steamed Artichokes Jerusalem. *Sigh.*

I immediately started laughing at myself for this ridiculous mistake, wondering why Mr. Snooty had not said anything. I suppose he knows me better than I realized, after almost 31 years of marriage, and he decided against bringing this up. He's such a wise man. I do wish he could be that quiet when we play golf. Anyway, the whole thing triggered a memory in my mind, so I'm going to run with it. Try to keep up.

I've been guilty of this sort of thinking before and I wasn't even old then. We were all Thirty Something (think early 1990's here) at the time and had been invited to a friend's home for a Lasagna Dinner and each couple had been asked, by our hostess, to bring a side dish. She had invited us a week earlier to insure that everyone could attend. Brainiac that I am, I worked all day on a lovely Pasta Primavera. Uh-Huh. As a side dish to Lasagna. Uh-Huh.

When we arrived, the hostess (whom I never did care much for) said to me "What the hell were you thinking?" I quickly apologized but as the other couples arrived, our hostess would immediately tell everyone what I'd brought and proceeded to make a Huge Deal out of it. It was humiliating the way she was referring to me as a complete basket case, a nut cake, and so on. Yes, I was actually bothered about other's opinions of me back then. Thank God that ship sailed.

It was Summer and it was as hot as the Devil himself, and I sat there thinking "So, Mrs. Bitch, why would you make & serve lasagna on one of the hottest days of the Summer? Served outside on your patio? In the heat?" When I excused myself to take my dishes in to the kitchen, she was still going on about it. She should have been keeping her eyes on me. I looked over at her lovely knives in their wooden stand, contemplating using the rather large one to either cut out her tongue or slice her throat, but decided I wouldn't like prison. However, I would have been doing her hubby a huge favor. Or perhaps he likes being emotionally beaten up. He must like it because they're still married.
So, I turned around and went over to their garbage container, which was enclosed in a lower cabinet, to throw away my napkin (I would also never serve dinner with lousy paper napkins) when I spotted a large Stouffer's Lasagna container & box in her garbage. That Bitch. She had bought her *homemade* lasagna at Sam's Club, then proceeded to pass it off as her own, then berate & belittle me for bringing Pasta Primavera that I made from scratch. Even the pasta.

Her biggest mistake of the day was not having the sneakiness foresight to take the packaging to the alley & place them in the trash bin. At least I'm not that stoooopid. And, yes, I am that sneaky, although I would never serve something from the frozen section at Sam's to my dinner guests. That privilege is reserved strictly for family.
So, being another type of bitch than she, I returned to the table with a smile on my face, having decided that if she said one more word about my dish, I was going to let the cat out of the proverbial bag. Of course, I knew she wouldn't be able to help herself. I knew it was going to happen and I laid in wait like some sort of predator, planning how nicely I was going to reveal her secret, as I stuck the invisible knife in her flat tummy & twisted it. Hehehehehe.....

I knew she wouldn't fail me and she did not. A bitch can always be counted on to open her mean mouth, which I already knew. Especially this one. She had the entire table of couples' attention when she made her fatal mistake. She opened her mouth about my dish one last time and I launched my verbal rocket... headed straight for her. Heads Up!

I spoke not too softly, nor too loudly as I very sweetly said "Well, at least I didn't buy it at Sam's and then pass it off as my own." All heads turned in her direction with mouths popping open & jaws dropping, sounding almost like a musical background for my rocket launch. Victory! All the compliments on her lasagna flew straight out the window at that point, followed by all of the mean remarks she'd made to me & about me that night. I couldn't even begin to tell you how perfectly sweet it was. Each wife had worked hard on their contribution to this woman's meal, so I'm fairly certain there were more pissed off people than just I.

Unlike her, I am not the type to go on about the ordeal all night. I just smiled the rest of the night. Contentment achieved. I still cannot understand why we never were invited to dinner again. Yeah, right. We never again did anything together either, which was such a shame. Not. And, guess what? She's still a mean bitch to this day, but not to me. Hehehe... I'm sure someone else has that dubious honor now, but it certainly isn't Moi!

We used to have them visit at the lake house every summer, for a week, with another couple & she was always a skinny bitch, which accounts for strike one.
She never even made their beds. Strike Two.
She also never pitched in to help with the work, nor brought an ounce of food. Yes, the guest from Hell. Strike Three... So, in honor of such a wonderful guest, I'm posting pictures for everyone's perusal. She's the one on the right trying to pee off the back of the boat. Hehehehe...
Then, a pic of the 3 of us on the Water Weenie. YeeHaaaawww!

17 comments:

Mental P Mama said...

That is a good one. In my opinion, you can never have too much of any part of an artichoke! That looked yummy!

Daryl said...

YES! I would have done the same thing .. actually I probably would have taken the box out of the garbage and pretended it fell out .. heh heh ...

And I am emailing you about the movies!
:-Daryl

Holy Crappers said...

What a bitch!!!
Good story Snooty.
You can come to my house anytime woman and bring your pasta primavera. I love when people take the time and bring something that is homemade because what I am serving is always made fresh, not out of the freezer in a box.

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Unknown said...

I LOVE the way you think. We have the same mentality. Mess with me and you WILL be put in your place although it will be in a nice and charming way. Good for you!

Katie Ryan said...

I love it, I love it! I wish I had your nerve.

That Janie Girl said...

Girl. you're hilarious. I love the way you stand up for yourself - after much longsuffering!

QueenofPlanetHotflash said...

OOOOOOhhhhOOOHHHHHOOhhhh, you were so much more classy than I probably would have been I would have done the drop the food on her head oooppssie thing ya know.
Always with grace and class Ms. Primadona. I would welcome you as a travel partner any day :)

Mamahut said...

I have also been in your shoes, why do the bitches think they need to do this? I'm glad you put her in her place. I have yet to get my revenge. It will be a fine day and I will be thinking of you :)

Treasia Stepp said...

I'm still laughing over the way you handled the biotch. Good for you! Homemade anything trumps the hell out of store bought any day of the week.

krysta said...

What nerve... she should have been happy just to have people bringing food...the more pasta the better!

scargosun said...

THAT WAS AWESOME!

We all wait for a moment like that in our lives. I hope to have one soon. ;)

Daryl said...

There's an award for you, come on over and pick it up!

:-Daryl

Anonymous said...

You're a great teller of stories! Thanks for sharing that one. She certainly got what she deserved.

Um, just a side note... No one noticed it was frozen lasagne? Wow!

brneyedgal967 said...

Bwahahahahha - Excellent story. Love the part and sitting back and waiting like a predator. There might be a *small bit* of the brown recluse in you that is useful in situations like these. LOL

Anonymous said...

That's hysterical but come on every part of the choke is good right?

imbeingheldhostage said...

Bless you bless you bless you. My huge laugh for the day. And I really can't believe a hostess would do that to anyone-- wow.
Most importantly, can anyone really have too many artichokes in a meal?!

Flea said...

You tell a good story, girl. Unfortunately, I'm now related to someone almost exactly like her. Fortunately, we moved a thousand miles to be away from her. Ahhh ... life is good.

 

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