Saturday, July 19, 2003

Donde esta Fush?



There's this guy I work with at the library. He's a really nice guy, but he has a terrible cough. Some days he'll just start coughing and will not be able to stop. But instead of, like, stopping the sentence he's in the middle of and letting the coughing take his full attention, he talks through it.



This habit infuses his sentences with a "dying words" quality. But since he's usually talking about work stuff - fines, collecting fines, dealing with people from whom he has to collect fines - it's kind of disorienting.