Thursday, February 2, 2012

Dear Sad, Hilarious Vons Check-Out-Dude:

I was standing in the check out line, when your Ben-Stein-voice notified the customer in front of us, "Have the best day ever."

I perked up, thinking to myself, "oh cool, someone with a dry semi-sarcastic sense of humor, and how sad, that customer totally ignored his invitation to play!"



It's our turn to check out. The emo-hipster cashier scans our milk, OJ, and Flavor Blast Goldfish.

"Don't get too Flavor Blasted," he warned.

We poorly attempted to muffle our snorts and giggles.

He stares. And continues scanning.

I imagine the inside of the devolutionized-hipster's head looks like this:

We fumbled with lame one-liners, attempting to elicit a reaction. But the thundercloud above his head must've been too stormy, making our jokes inaudible. But they were good.

What's up Napoleon Dynamite look-a-like? Did the popular girls make fun of your drawings? Not enough "likes" on your most recent semi-suicidal Facebook post?

I look to the bag woman, perhaps she find this guy's oddness funny-- and can give me confirmation he won't leap over the counter and start stabbing people. She never looked up from her bagging before shuffling off to the next register. So I know how she feels working in close proximity of that guy.

We grab our bags and head for the door.

"Have the best day ever."


Sincerely Flavor-Blasted,
LA Hoxie

Friday, January 27, 2012

How To Get Kicked to the Curb by Your Roommates

By now, I've lived in Mammoth Lakes for eight months, have had roughly six different roommates, four different Bachelors, and one Couple, so I guess it was only a matter of time before we found out one of them was delusional psychotic.


Fact: one out of six roommates are awful.

It was bad enough his friend squatted for almost a month, but as soon as that problem was clear-- i.e. Everyone yelled/sat-down- to-talk for weeks-- he brings in a hookworm-diseased puppy home, whose entrance into a room was proceed by the smell of death. But don't worry about the hookworms. The medicine is in the mail.
I don't know if you know what hookworm is. But I get the feeling that this picture is so gross and freaky, this is your last visit to my blog.
When you really think about it-- how it uses those teeth to make it's way through your foot to your intestine, it's gross.

It's already a crime against noses that puppies shit where ever they feel like, but add an owner whose never home, and acts like an Adam Sandler character-- placing pillows on top of stains-- but that is how it's dirty dirty worms travel and infect everyone else.

Everything would've been um, alright-I-guess after the "friend who will only be here a couple days" and having to call the cops because he was blackout-drunk and invited the sketchiest people in the bar back to our house to blast music, and later threaten our lives.

Then one day he's joking with the-other-couple-in-the-house's dog about "finding him a brother" and what do you know? Literally the next day there's a very large puppy in the house.
If only we could get this one to play piano. Or at least Lysol his own stains.

Don't misinterpret my love for puppies, he's adorable. But in need of medical attention, and an owner who knows how to google "training a puppy." Instead of one who throws a tantrum when you tell him his dog-- that you never agreed was "cool" to bring home-- just peed and shit in front of your door this morning.

It makes me wonder about the people who give people dogs. Who gave this guy a dog?

Later, at the eviction ceremony, which I did not attend because I don't want to get into a dirty-looks contest with disturbed egomaniacs (nor do I care for roses), after he made innocuous claims and told everyone, "This is MY town!" he was handed his Notice.
Actual paperwork drawn up by a lawyer telling him to "gitt out!"
Then there was story of a death stare, and he vanished into the night. Leaving us with the knowledge that he would probably return in a drunken haze.
And we'd be left awkwardly dancing around someone we've now acknowledged to his face, we can't even discuss things with his face, without his head blowing up and sucking all the alcohol around it. And then sending all the dudes in the house a weirdly pornographic-yet-threatening text message.

So now it's Friday, the day the landlord proclaimed as "The day the Bachelor will be gone" and who knows if he's found a new place, even looked a little bit, or perhaps more expected decided to stubbornly stay put till we have to call the police and awkwardly have them drag him out.

All I know is I hope I can walk barefoot upstairs again soon. I'll let you know when it happens, until then I am
Sincerely yours,
LA Hoxie
P.S.
I wanted to find a picture from The Bachelor, but after half-an-hour searching, I realized that even I wouldn't get the joke.

Friday, June 24, 2011

"Goodbye God, I'm going to Bodie"

Greetings and welcome to my first blog entry!
After an injured toe (I don't want to talk about it) and simultaneously not being able to work my wonderful ski instructor job thingy-- I'm doing this! You know, blogging.
And on a computer too, my techie family should be proud. After several computer crashes and disappointing news about recovery, I've always been a BIG fan of pen and paper.
But after a 5-year-old proved she knew more about my phone than I do, I'm thinking about changing my 1960s ways.
Yesterday I wanted a typewriter, today I've got my own username on my fiancee's laptop.

So will this last past the confinement of my broken toe? WIll I write a second blog post? I guess you'll have to come back and find out.

Until then I am
Yours,
LA Hoxie