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So: I began today before daylight in Vienna, and now I'm ending the day sitting at gate for Baton Rouge flight, listening to elderly Cajuns discuss pros and cons of wearing Crocs. I give them five minutes before they start on dem Tigahs. This is my life, and I'm happy with it.
Now one of the ladies is talking about how her husband took the dog to the vet because she (the dog) ate a plate of spicy meat and rice that the husband fed her. ("She eats whatevah he eats." The dog sleeps between them too. ("She'll growl at me in da bed.") Dat man loves his dog
"I said to him, 'Wut's da contingency plan if she doys?' He said, 'She betta not doy!' I said to him dat we got alligatahs, so we gotta be thinkin' bout it."
"Dat otha dog of ours, we thought the eagle got him. Dat damn bird. Couldn't foind him nowhere. Den da people dat moved in down da road called and said, 'I think we got y'all's dog.' We went down there, and you could see it was him from a ways away, 'cuz he's bow-legged."
Two of their husbands toddled back from their walk in the terminal. They're all wound up. One tells the group, "We stuck our head in dat bar, and dey wuz a lady sitting there drinking a bloody mary." The other man: "Tell 'em wut she offahd you, James." ...
"She said to me, 'You want my olive?' I said, 'I sho do, honey!' An' she give it to me!" Laughter all around. "James, tell 'em what else she offahd you." "A choklit chip cookie!" "Oh Lawd, you was caught in a pirogue widdout a paddle!" Laughter. "Yeah, iss time ta go home."
(I hope this flight is delayed. I love these people. They are a hoot. I don't know where they've been, but I bet you anything they had a great time.)
They're still talking about the hussy at the bar! "Didn't nobody offah me nuttin'," said one of the old duffers. "Dey offahd it to James." James: "You want me to go back dere an' get you a choklit chip cookie?" I think James would like nothing more than to toddle down & do this.
(By the way, they don't say it "cookie"; they pronounce it "COOK-ih." Like proper Cajuns.)
