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Jewel not being mean for a minute
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by
junkpile
Tue Aug 01 2000 at 17:22:17
I have seen Bill sell $50 hosta to mean Jewel Malden for $7 just to keep her coming back every Tuesday. Bill is
tickled by everybody
but he likes
her especially
. This week she hemmed and hawed over varieties as usual, snapping at Bill to Make sure you don't overcharge me now sir. She says Sir but you can hear she means Boy.
He leaves her alone
to rummage through the greenhouses, she does not take well to being accompanied,
I've tried
, she doesn't like me, and she knows everything Bill could tell her anyway.
She is clearly devoted but she never shows any excitement. Businessike though the plants are only for her own pleasure, she has been coming here for years and I have pieced together enough of her life to make
unfair assessments of her character
. Mostly she is just cranky. Husband dead, daughter in LA, she lives alone and grows things with no enthusiasm that I can see.
This time she was grumbling to herself over hosta not big enough or
too expensive
or
something not to her liking
, and then let out a shriek, a happy one, it sounded like. She was delighted and I thought maybe she'd just found the new flats of
White Christmas
, heavier-leafed and thicker at the base than usual, a nice crop, but when I went over to see, she was holding up a flat of boring old Guacamole, ordinary, she must have a million of those but she was in rapture. She showed me the little box turtle that had climbed into the pot (why?), shell the size of a silver dollar. She begged to take him home, said
he could live in the pond with the goldfish
and grow fat and lazy sunning on the rocks and she just
had
to have him, could she please? I did not give her a look I just said He's your turtle. She squealed and bought the turtle hosta too, no haggling over price.
Working in a library is never as much fun as you think it might be.
I daydream of her
Jewel
Hosta
huddling in the corner because you realize you're naked
Om mani padme hum
Forbidden City, USA
Do I require an identity?
Dogfish Head
A Tale in the Desert
Someone outlined against the sky, the sun too bright to see her face
White Christmas
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