Before purchasing the stickerBboard I saw chalk. The big sidewalk kind, in a kit with stencils and possibly more stickers, but I unfortunately passed. Little did I know finding chalk would be harder than finding motivation to do a community assessment of a place I've never been.
Today, I went outside.
The outside led me back to the inside and I wandered. I go up aisles and then I do a swirl, a twirl and come back down them. I see so much, so much of which I wonder why exists. And I find no chalk, until...I have decided to abandon the chalk quest and just find wine. Everything in moderation, except excess.
Finding wine may be the easiest of tasks you can ask one to perform, in this country, in Philadelphia it is considerably harder. There is no wine at the dollar store in Amish country.
I peruse the wine, comparing label pictures to their prices, trying to figure out how much each design is worth versus how much I'm willing to spend to do something I'll never remember. I choose cheap and fair-trade. I also like the name, but I'm feeling slightly fond of this wine which makes me think we've been places before, but that's not the point. Chalk.
Chalk, and I go walking. I'm content with my wine and don't think Chalk is going to happen until I enter the realm of frozen foods. And I look to my right and amid a variety of random plastics and hazardous warning labels, I find CHALKY.
Chalky is the only way you can get yer stixx of chalk. Blue and pink, broken or not so broken. But Chalky isn't a pack of chalk. No, this is a mug. A chalkboard mug, complete with chalk because they know, unlike me, that chalk doesn't exist anymore. It is novelty.
So now I'm back home and I've doubled my blackboard writing surfaces and have chalk. I can drink tea and write messages. OR write messages to get someone to make me tea. OR better yet, the wine can go in the mug and I can write notes so that one day, I can remember how I ended up upside-down.
ps.I also found a picture you need to see.
pps. Facebook told me I'm destined to be a crackhead.
10 comments:
poule that was hilarious story.
what a silly name, chalky.
you are a great storyteller.
i'm munchin on a trail mix from Robert's (grocery one) called Cranberry Honey Soy.
ps i loved the beaver article. i sent it to my mama. she will love.
also i almost bought a book on polish obscenities today but then remembered that i don't speak polish anyway. then i almost got one on french obscenities, but i knew most things. so maybe i will go back and just copy the funny ones that i didnt know and then write my own book.
don't let the bed bugs bite.
love,
poule
That story was hilarious! I wonder if they have chalk in the school--maybe you could sneak in and take some. Or maybe they've been trying to upgrade with the "hi-tech" dry erase boards.
Poule, you don't have to speak a language to use it's obscenities...although, if all you know is obscenities, people will know you are swearing at them every time they hear you speak Polish.
tis true, ECKLI!
you are a wise one.
Oh I love that you two are my faithful followers.
You can always construct yer own obscenities. Remember that. I make new word patterns and then Geraud laughs. We might be high.
The have whiteboards apparently. Somehow markers are better than chalk. I disagree. Chalk does not get tossed in the trash when it dries up..it just disappears up yer nose if you are unlucky. Oh on yer dress. But it is water soluble. Just like LUBE!
It's true. But since lube is water soluble, it's hard to use in the water.
I don't know what is so great about those whiteboards. You know they make chalk pens now too, so that's the same thing. They use them at this asian stir-fry restaurant I go to and it makes things colorful.
I bought a single futon on EBAY.
and ever since Ive been prowlin lookin for deals n such.
Chalk pens are on Ebay.
We still need furniture for one room. It's our giant closet of sorts.
so many people i know are having garage sales today because they can't afford rent. i'm thinking of making bread tonight. after the camerounian guy /potential roommate comes by.
poule i wanna see your pictures. you make me curious, you see.
love,
poule
That board is actually nice, even though I thought it wouldn't be of any use. Everyone, which is basically Allysin and that guy she's living with, can write any random stuff on it, which is great so far because we still have chalk. I mean, it's kinda like petrol though, we are runing on a non sustainable resource: chalk! So, as all big lobbying companies like to make us think about petrol, everything is fine because we still have some! How wonderful human kind way of thinking is! Exploiting, devastating and reducing to nothing everything It touches on behalf of profit and finacial results beautifully represented on pareto charts and other sort of illustration; always pushing for over consumption of any kind of resources, uselessly. Man kind stupidity and lack of common sense and integrity obsess me and devaste me!
i can send tons of chalk!
don't you worry about your dwindling suppy.
love,
poule pie
see geraud, there would be no problems of sustainability if there were more poules.
Projet poule repopulate the planet: Part 1.
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