Wednesday 23 October 2002
Porch sittin' gossips...
Ya porch sittin' gossips, you look like a couple of flower pots!
I just remembered something this afternoon, a little funny something that someone told me many years ago. The thing is, I can't remember exactly who told it to me. It was either Gary W. or his brother Mark W., I just don't know which brother... I was pals with one, and then later worked with the other. Anyway, one of them told me it about their other brother or maybe a cousin of theirs.
Apparently in youth, the cousin used to get hassled by these middle aged women when he'd walk past their houses on the sidewalk going here or there. They would whisper, snicker, and sometimes rudely comment. They had a cool older aunt who told him how to handle it. She said to stop and tell them off like this:
You 2 porch sittin' gossips, you look like a couple of flower pots. What did you plant a seed & now your neighbor's watering it?
I think there was more to it, but I can't remember the rest now. I don't know if anyone actually told the porch sittin' gossips off like that, but I do know one thing... Whatever reason, whoever told me it, would've related that story, I don't remember who was hassling me that the story was appropriately related... All I remember is laughing hysterically about telling some porch sittin' gossips they look like a couple of flower pots. And I'm not sure, but it's possible I may later have told someone off at some point using that.
posted by Chloe | Wednesday 23 October 2002 4:30 PM
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