Monday, July 18, 2005
We Serve Everyone
There's an old joke about a man who walks into Lindy's restaurant and asks 'Do you serve crabs?'. The waiter tells him 'Sit down. We serve everyone...' Glad to know, therefore, that there's somewhere in town when I'm in a sour mood. : - ). I was wondering why people say 'sour grapes,' since I've never seen, tasted, or even heard of one, except metaphorically. Turns out it's from Aesop's fable, The Fox And The Grapes, about a fox that tries repeatedly to snatch a bunch of juicy grapes hanging too high on the vine. Frustrated, the fox walks away muttering that the grapes are probably sour, anyway. The moral being 'it is easy to despise what you cannot get.' There's a slightly different shade of meaning in their somehow.I saw "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" yesterday with David, review forthcoming. My plane back from Miami was delayed for three frigging hours, whereas my flight going there spent an aimless hour on the tarmac, as if the airport hadn't been notified that we were coming... : - ) Still, lovely weekend all in all...
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