Thursday, January 25, 2007

Laundretta's in a Spin

LAUNDRETTA, WHO IS Matran’s girlfriend:— über-long hours hard-Working Girl extraordinaire, a Girl with enough emotional probs that, floated out on the North Atlantic, they’d reprimand the Titanic — peasy:— this Laundretta girl collared me in the hall as I skulked unwittingly home this afternoon & DELUGED me with her amaranthine emotional needs.

Her silver watch and earrings: she took them off last night & somewhere…. Hid them… Now they’re not in the appointed place… (??)…

The query being NOT just did Matran nick 'em & pipe them in the form of cocaine crack. (He’s off all that now, she insists. Which I don’t believe for a second. But he might have cut down because he has put on a great deal of weight, a telltale sign of cocaine abstinence.) But rather:— do I believe he took the jewellery, which is fresh enough to appear brand new, so she says, to give as a gift to either his “bit on the side” girlf or his babymother. —?

I don’t know! And told her this. But did keep listening and smoking…

Between her revealing this and us imbibing a can of alcohol and three cigs each and the Evil Landlord taking up clonking about downstairs (because this conversation took place in the hallway on neutral ground; all quiet and Matran at his weekly drugs test (which he either fakes or fails — surely —)) at least a half-hour of vague chitchat elapsed. Nothing is sorted. Laundretta put my head in a washing machine spin-cycle tizz with the stress of it all.

And now she’s so upset she’s vandalizing Matran’s room all lovely & nice for when he gets home…
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17 comments:

  1. Anonymous25 January 2007 at 18:34

    You were right, completely different experience. I like reading it, but in the beginning I had no idea what you were saying. But then I started getting what you were talking about.

    Thanks for the link to my site.

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  2. Gledwood25 January 2007 at 19:24

    That's fine. I left a comment right at the beginning of yours as well. Don't know if your email tells you that...

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  3. Deb25 January 2007 at 19:29

    she's got her knickers in a twist...is that how you'd say it? (i'm canadian, go easy on me)

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  4. Gledwood25 January 2007 at 19:48

    Yep knickers in a twist is it!! Those are lovely pixx of your local "environs" btw.!!

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  5. Deb25 January 2007 at 20:12

    thank you. and i love your other blog too. i'm another sausage upender. good to meet you (sort of)

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  6. Deb25 January 2007 at 20:13

    that came out wrong. It's good to meet you. The sort of is that we're not really "meeting".

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  7. Gledwood25 January 2007 at 20:33

    I never realized so many people did that with their sausages..!!

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  8. Deb25 January 2007 at 20:55

    smart people

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  9. Robyne25 January 2007 at 21:00

    Have I missed something with the sausages???

    As usual your blog is entertaining. I just know the woman you are talking about...you meet them in every town..

    BTW thanks for dropping by..and yes! I'm with you I think Big Brother is the biggest load of junk food for the mindless...
    Robyne

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  10. Gledwood25 January 2007 at 21:04

    Oh, right! All it was, was I gave a recipe for cooking sausages, the only Gledwoodization being that after browning the outsides, you chop them into sections and sear them closed so you have a contrast between the juicy sausages and the crispy exteriors... You need a high heat to do it properly (I'd say)...

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  11. RUTH25 January 2007 at 21:15

    Manda (despite still being unwell) dropped round so I lost my computer for an hour again so she could read your latest posts! Like me she feels your talent is wasted....you write SO WELL, have a brilliant vocabulary, speak languages.........so talented!!!!

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  12. Gledwood25 January 2007 at 21:25

    Yes I wish I could get paid to write. I really wish that.!!. I'm poking about trying to find out precisely how (apart from the obvious, write a book) I mean get paid a bit quicker than that...

    As for the languages I have to go live abroad seriously to improve them to a full-on level bc I rang an employment agency that specialized in them a few years ago asking 1. which language (German every time) and 2. how good? They said A level isn't good enough you need to be fully fluent. I've got the A level but I'd need to go live there even just for 6 months... yes I know what you mean about wasted. I get told that a lot.

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  13. Gledwood25 January 2007 at 21:26

    PS HI MANDA!! YOU KNOW ALL ABOUT ME NOW!!!!!

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  14. Elsie25 January 2007 at 22:25

    Thanks for letting me know you are ok. I plead guilty too, after 4 months of blogging, there is always more to do to try to make the blog better (hmm, wonder if it really works?)Your's look great now.

    I linked to your blog on my recipe blog, seems it is getting more visitors at the moment and hey, food is always good!

    Stay well

    Lcxxx

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  15. Elsie25 January 2007 at 22:26

    Oh yes, will catch up will all your new posts over the weekend.

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  16. Danny25 January 2007 at 22:28

    Sorry, but I don't realize what you mean. Can't you explain it to me?
    Thank you. Danny

    P.S.: everybody has an addiction or two.

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  17. Anonymous25 January 2007 at 22:42

    Gledwood said...
    Oh! I see what you mean about it being rude now!!
    Gledwood
    (gledwood2.blogspot)

    18:58

    Okay, what I mean is, I see what the warning is about now... when I went into yours I couldn't read the text but the pixx looked pretty "regular" to me - THEN I saw what those cartoon guys were doing... so I see why the warning now!!

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