{"id":301,"date":"2002-11-07T14:48:24","date_gmt":"2002-11-07T19:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karinajean.com\/wp\/?p=301"},"modified":"2006-08-22T15:06:49","modified_gmt":"2006-08-22T20:06:49","slug":"the-fun-ruiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karinajean.com\/wp\/2002\/11\/the-fun-ruiner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fun Ruiner."},"content":{"rendered":"

I got caught twice in the last 10 minutes having fun today! Oh, El B., how I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve failed you\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6<\/span><\/p>\n

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Michelle and I used to joke about our professional wrestling names. I was going to be The Fun Ruiner, and I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2d bust out in a cape and say in a deep, scary, Andre the Giant voice \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cMothers, Hide your Children. I am here to Rain On Your PaRade\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d She\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2d be my sidekick, The Purple Grape, and her wrestling move would be The Steamroller (which I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ve seen in action, and it is surprisingly effective). At about this time we\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2d start to crack up so hard that we couldn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t really continue. I can\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t remember why we were talking about being professional wrestlers, probably it had something to do with the movie \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cBilly Madison,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d but with us, there\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s really no telling where a whacko idea comes from.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Example: a paraphrased and probably incorrectly recollected conversation from our drive cross-country:<\/span><\/p>\n

Michelle (looking at map): \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cHey, there\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s a town called Lolita coming up!\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

Kari (driving): \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cLibido? Weird.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

Michelle: \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cBurrito? No, it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s called Lolita!\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

And then we\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2d chorus the next few days \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cLolita? Libido? Burrito?\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d and crack up. This was really helpful when we didn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t have a tape deck or CD player to listen to, b\/c the jerks in San Francisco had stolen both of them, and all of Michelle\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s CDs. Between the never ending Ricky Martin songs, that really dirty Jordan Knight song<\/a> (\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cGive it to you\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d) that was playing constantly that summer, and the rousing renditions of Figaro performed by Michelle, it was good to have something we could repeat to each other over and over that would never lose it\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s humor.<\/span><\/p>\n

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While I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m repeating conversations from cross country, here\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s a golden one between my brother and I, when I called home after the car had been totally burglarized in San Francisco to find out what kind of info insurance would need:<\/span><\/p>\n

Kari (very sad, in hotel lobby): \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cOh, DanAaron, They broke into our car and stole everything!\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

DanAaron: \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cWho did? . . . Never mind, you don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t know. Oops. I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2m sorry!\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

Kari (sniffle): \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cIt was the JERKS!\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

And then we both started laughing, which I really needed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Other things said (but might not have been conversations): <\/span><\/p>\n

Thing Rob-at-work has said today that crack me up:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cPolitics is gouging the price of V8 today.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

Only he really said \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cthe man in the box is gouging the price of V8 today.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

I can\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t decide which is funnier, the real one or the kari-one.<\/span><\/p>\n


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(And Rob isn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t nuts, there are men in boxes here in NYC who sell us things to eat. Like Bagels and Coffee in the morning. Really, they\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2re in Tin Boxes. Now, he may be referring to guy who isn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t actually in a box as a man in a box, but that\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s just an eccentricity \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 he\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s definitely not nuts.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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