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"Hugo?"
"Yeah, Lefty?"
"Where did we come from?"
"Well, when a man sock and a woman sock fall in love, they get 'paired.' Then, after they've spent some time with all the experimentation with the whole swinging lifestyle thing, they decide to settle down. Then they get a sock drawer of their own and decide to have some booties. The mommy sock 'casts on' to the daddy sock's needles and they 'knit.' Then, after a while baby booties are made."
"No, I mean, where was that mercado we were just in?"
"Oh. Well, that was just one of the quaint Mexican Folkways that are arbtrarily set up throughout the country to seperate gringos from dollars. Why?"
"Well, there didn't seem to be a lot of commotion when that bomb went off. I'm just wondering why that is."
"Probably political."
"Oh. Hugo?"
"Yeah, Lefty?"
"How do you 'knit'?"
"Well, I don't know about you, but I like a size 18 needle and slubby yarn."
Last edited by pshrynk; 03-31-2009 at 09:59 AM.
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