Tuesday, April 7, 2009

The Negative Impact of Internet Familiarity

As it has been my recent custom to do, I've been spending most of my time at work for the purposes of making enough change to do some laundry. While folding napkins, there was some commotion at one of the cooking tables.

Interested in what was going on (because I had been folding napkins for the last 2 hours), I turned to listen as one customer frantically tried to explain what was going on.

Apparently, someone's 14-year-old grand daughter had thrown up all over the cooking table. I couldn't imagine why, but the funny part was how it was explained;

"She's vomiting!" exclaimed the frantic grandmother.
"And she needs a CUP to rinse her mouth out."

I listened further to the conversation.

"Just a cup, that's it. Just one cup, so she can get the taste of vomit out."

I was trying to no avail to conceal my laughter by this point. The way it was phrased, I couldn't help but be reminded of a certain internet reference.

Clearly, she wasn't.