Overheard...

Madison Bistro, 238 Madison Ave.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 7.45p

As told by a man who is friends with "Eric."


...and Eric has a sister. Well, in addition to his brother, the middle child. So it's Eric, his older brother and his sister. And apparently the sister is a mess. Like, she's really fat and a total pot head - you know, because of the dad - and she works at the dad's store. Kinda like a Duane Reade out there, like a pharmacy... Anyway, she works at this pharmac and she married a guy who works as a short order chef at the local diner... I know right, of all the people in the world... Well it turns out this guy has a problem with buying things on eBay. Like cars or old radios; either really expensive things or really crappy things, but he'll buy anything. And the sister couldn't stand it, he was always buying all this stuff. Anyway, it was a problem that he really didn't think anyone could help him with and so he wouldn't accept any help... It ended up ending the marriage... So sad, right?

...so she started dating this new guy, who I've never met, but Eric has. Eric just met him, he was down there visitng and when he came back, he told me that the boyfriend is [whispered] blind and has 80% hearing loss. [nods] Right??? Of all the people. And his sister met this guy because she works at the pharmacy and he had been there to pick up his medicine for his problems. Apparently it's a really terrible story. He was this athelete and he had this degenerative disease that first hit his eyes and then his ears, so sad...

...they were crossing the street and she ran off to catch up to Eric, like "Eric, Eric!" and she let go of her boyfriend's hand. And she was supposed to be holding his hand! And so he tripped and fell and scraped - it was warm, he was wearing shorts - he scraped up all his legs and his arms and face and it was all bloody... I mean, she let go of his hand!


THE END

Cross my heart this is truly what I heard next to me during dinner tonight. Don't know what else to say except that life is stranger than fiction!


xxo, S