Holiday/Vacation

It was a mundane Friday until Mr. D called me from Happy Hour in The Jukebox Room.

The conversation started with, "Don't get mad."

Apparently, he and Mrs. D recently bumped into The Hallidays, another family "on the island". Turns out, The Hallidays' son, Ben- "31 years of age", "nice guy", "lives in Huntington Beach, has a condo" ("strapping", "runner", and "maneuvers a boat better than me!" were also offered) - "broke up with his girlfriend a while back".

Mr. D calls up Mrs. Halliday and tells her he knows a "nice woman" (ha! woman!), "attractive", "just moved out here". He's a good salesman, at work they send him in to make deals happen, Mrs. Halliday (and Ben) was defenseless against him.

He goes on to tell me, "so don't get mad, but we (Mr. D & Mrs. Halliday) thought it couldn't hurt to arrange a little lunch, so if Ben-Benjamin-Ben HALL-I-DAY calls you- you like the name "Ben", right? Its a good name, "Ben"?- so if Ben calls you, because I gave him your number so he's gonna call you- you'd go out with him, right?"

I did mothers everywhere proud with the, "Sure. It never hurts to meet new people." response.

About this time, I can hear Mrs. D in the background calling for Mr. D, he was so nervous he was gonna get busted (confirming the surreptitiousness of the call) we hung up quickly. I was laughing and just a little dumbstruck, I thought I HAVE to blog about this. As I pulled myself together and started contemplating what I would title the blog, it gets even more BIZARRE: our last names are Vakay (vacay= vacation) and Halliday (holiday) .

I found this amusing; our last names are synonyms or at least associated with words of the same/similar meaning. Ben-Benjamin-Ben hasn't even called and I'm figuring out I'd potentially be.

Kate Vakay Halliday. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I scare myself sometimes.)

Buy me a cat.

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Also, remember that Christmas I sent the card of myself dressed as a running elf? "Everyone needs a little holiday Vakay." Maybe I'm PSYCHIC! Wait til Stacey finds out!

I'll keep you posted!