On second thought...Hick has been communicating in his regular manner. Punctuation is not his friend. It's like my old nemesis, technology. And geography.
Sunday, on the way home from the casino with Genius and his Friend, I got a message responding to my report on Hick's query about our win/loss totals.
"Doing any better still train riding another hour"
I relayed that Genius was down, I was down $40 more than Genius, and Friend was up $40 for the day.
"O well almost to the hotel be careful Love you both"
"Sorry, Friend. Genius's dad says that he loves us both. I guess he likes you well enough...but he didn't mention it."
"Huh. Maybe he meant that he loves me and Genius, and left YOU out!"
"That's a possibility. You never know, the way he texts."
Later Sunday evening, Hick sent more code.
"I'm at the Hotel in my room shower and bed"
"Is it all one piece?" [asked Val, remembering the last time Hick sent a picture on one of his
"No I'll take a picture love you"
And the next morning, which was the shank of my evening, at 1:31 a.m., Hick got right back to keeping me apprised of his situation.
"Good morning having breakfast"
"What do they give you, Swedish fish?" [said the non-world-traveler Val, who had a JV football coach for her History and Geography teacher, yet made VALEDICTORIAN in spite of it]
"Scrambled eggs and bacon and grapes"
"Good enough."
"They have boiled eggs and cold meats and fruit salads and cereals too"
"I'm shocked you're not having a pile of cold meats."
"No no cold meat" [said the Carnivore Laureate of Backroads, renowned for fitting (and eating) an entire rump roast in his towering bowl of Vegetable Beef Soup, carefully leaving out the 'juice']
"What are you now, a gourmet?"
"No no gourmet just telling you what they have in room now getting ready to go he will pick us up at 830"
Later in his day, and earlier in my next one...Hick reported that he was back from the hockey game he was taken to for his entertainment [who knew the Swedishans were so into hockey? Not this ol' Val] and that he'd had a great time.
"I'm watching a little TV then shower and bed"
No. I didn't ask him if the shower and bed was all one piece. Or why he was watching them.
Text punctuation is for sissies and Valadictorians
ReplyDeleteSnacks hidden under a towel on the kitchen counter are for the lady of the house!
DeleteI for one would have thought Swedes were into hockey, what with all that snow and ice.
ReplyDeleteWhoa! Ice and snow? You mean to tell me that Sweden is next to CANADA?
DeleteVal--MORE salt in my wound. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteMy PITA could be sharing that shower-bed with Hick. That's YOUR bad.
Well, I don't have a doctor's note on file that you are on a low-salt-wound diet.
DeleteYIKES! The image of those two strange showerbedfellows curls my lovely lady-mullet!
SD won't have a phone but if he did I'm sure I would get similar. I tend to type all his important emails for him. His are all in capital letters with the odd random full stop thrown in but no commas.
ReplyDeleteThey speak their own language, even when it's unspoken.
Deletehe sure makes you work for the sweet talk. Does he sign off with Love, guess who?
ReplyDeleteNot yet. Probably because it hasn't occurred to him.
DeleteLinda made me think of my son. He used his first and last names when he signed mother's day cards. We still tease him about it.
DeleteHopefully he didn't mail you a card addressed only to "Mom." Like 22-year-old Genius did for my birthday.
DeleteHeWho is not concerned with punctuation and spelling either. I always know what he is trying to tell me, but I do love to make him explain himself.
ReplyDeleteI generally get the drift. But today Hick said: "going to pup then shower kinda cold here."
DeleteYou can probably figure it out. I could not. I made him explain. Wished I hadn't.
going to PUB?
DeleteIf ONLY! No. That's not it. Think about bodily functions. Yeah. Don't think about it too much!
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