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Having the reputation in college as "The

  • Having the reputation in college as "The Guy Who Eats A Lot Of Pizza" is not quite a feat, but it might be an accomplishment. My discarded crusts spilled over on my overdue work

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  • which in turn spilled out of my intricately doodled Trapper Keeper. To be known as "The Guy Who Eats A Lot Of Pizza" you've got to really want it. You can't just eat a lot. You've

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  • got to go beyond the concept of "A lot." Rookies eat a lot of pizza, but me, I don't eat a lot of pizza, I am finishing ONE pizza, so big, it can't be baked in one restaurant but

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  • requires an oven the size of Rhode Island, which coincidentally is known as the "pizza of states". It cost me A LOT of money -- an entire parking lot filled with $1 bills stacked

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  • high above the clouds. I don't even know where this money came from! One day I was minding my own business when the money had just landed in my back garden!; but at that point it

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  • didn't matter. Nothing mattered to me anymore. Nothing and no one. As I watched hundred dollar bills float down around me from the sky, all I could think of was...her.

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  • In a trance state, I tenderly gathered bill after bill & covered Ben Franklin's face with kisses- seeing only her sweet face before me. I swept the startled bank teller into a jig,

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  • then into a waltz, endorsing her back side even as we danced, which made my signature a bit uneven and unacceptable to her. After a quick shower she made me redo it, but even then

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  • It looked much like John Hancock. I was using a copperplate nib in my Osmiroid 65. Mum loved it, but everyone else thought I had lost my mind. The writing handbook indicated it was

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  • chocolate. Which, you know, is wrong. It wasn't chocolate. In the end, in all of our hearts, we knew.. it was love.

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