Thanks for that story. Totally made my day.
maidopolis | 06.01.04 - 4:55 pm | #

Mine too!

Rana
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I love it, I love it, I love it. (I wish my mom was more like that 80-year-old woman!)
dainec | Homepage | 06.01.04 - 6:32 pm | #

What a great story! I hope I can celebrate my 80th birthday in an equally adventurous fashion.
Jules | 06.01.04 - 8:05 pm | #

Oh, how wonderful. Thank you. This post is not simply One Good Thing...it's One Great Thing. I think I love you.
larkspur | 06.01.04 - 9:26 pm | #

Flea,
I learned about your blog from the Trib article you refer to. Everyday I check to see if you've posted new commentary from your life. With every post I read, I become a little bit of a better person, so thank you. And may I suggest, the next time the parents at your son's preschool give you one of there "tight-lipped smiles" remember this, "F**k them if they can't take a joke.
Annie | 06.01.04 - 9:44 pm | #

I want to be that 80-year-old woman. But not, you know, right now. Maybe later. But then! How cool would I be!
alice | Homepage | 06.01.04 - 10:50 pm | #

Flea, I hope I'm not being tacky by suggesting this, but: how about a PayPal "Donation" button for those of us (without enough money to buy a vibrator, but still), wanting to donate to the Couch & Carpet fund?
Tina | Homepage | 06.02.04 - 2:21 am | #

Hi Flea,

You don't know me but I've been reading your blog for months now. I've just got home from a shitty day at work, logged on and decided to visit you first. I'm glad I did because now I feel so much better! Great story and I wish all my customers rocked as much as both these women did. Thanks for sharing it!
Trish | 06.02.04 - 5:50 am | #

That is just too damn cool. The world needs more people like you... and the eighty year old!
The Nord | Homepage | 06.02.04 - 9:10 am | #

And may I suggest, the next time the parents at your son's preschool give you one of there "tight-lipped smiles" remember this, "F**k them if they can't take a joke.
Annie | Email | 06.01.04 - 9:44 pm

I'd say, "Joke 'em if they can't take a f*ck," if I may imply that is part of what your business supplies.
Lower Case | 06.02.04 - 9:24 am | #

I want your little store to make you money too! I'm going to buy something online! Does it ship in brown paper? hehehehehe

nikidee
Nikidee | 06.02.04 - 2:16 pm | #

You know, a paypal button would be a great idea - you put quite a lot of time and creative energy into entertaining us, and I for one would be happy to donate soemthing to a couch-and-carpet fund in return!
rahel | Homepage | 06.02.04 - 4:46 pm | #

Tina and Rahel, thank you very, very much for your offer. However, getting a new carpet and couch would remove some of my God-given gift for whining, and I can't have that.
flea | Homepage | 06.02.04 - 7:46 pm | #

Yeah, I figured you'd say something like that, but you can't blame a girl for trying. One of these days the rabbit pearl will be mine! And when it is, it will have been purchased from Honeysuckle.

I do have to say, though, that a second-hand couch could be purchased -- something not brand new, but somewhat on its way to being Putrid Couch II, or somesuch. That would still give you some material to work with... :D
Tina | Homepage | 06.02.04 - 11:26 pm | #

i wish i was that gutsy at 80
anthony | Homepage | 06.03.04 - 2:58 am | #

Oh lawdy! I'm at work, under a deadline, and just laughed my entire way through your blog. The story about poor Christopher shitting sideways, upways, downways, all-which-ways had me blowing snot out of my nose... at which point I had to tell my boss that I was sneezing. I'm linkin' ya to my blog so that I remember to check in every day.
Cootersnap | Homepage | 06.03.04 - 2:52 pm | #

Please Lord let me be interested in vibrators at 80. Great story!
Tiff | Homepage | 06.04.04 - 10:02 pm | #