Light spring snowfall today–special effects snow really, just enough
to make the world look pretty but not so much that you were in danger
of skidding. Car windows have just a tiny, brushable frosting. And on one parked car
I drove by, driving home tonight, someone had hugely printed the word
“PEnis.”
I had to smile, remembering my long ago fascination with the word
“uterus.” I must have looked it up in five dictionaries, and all of
them said about the same thing, “a sacklike organ where the fetus
grows”, and none of them gave me the tiniest little clue about why
conversations including the word “uterus” embarassed my mom so very
much.
At least my snowfall graffiti-ist has probably seen a penis, or has
some idea what one looks like. So he (or she) is way ahead of where I
was with “uterus.”
2 responses so far ↓
1 Elaine of Kalilily // Mar 8, 2004 at 7:17 pm
This reminded me of a line I read years ago in some novel that I still think is a great line — something like “I’ve never been able to get over my fascination with the hydraulics of the penis.” Hee hee.
2 Stu Savory // Mar 9, 2004 at 4:47 am
But imagine the driver’s horror upon getting home, seein the writing . . .
and finding it to be in his daughter’s handwriting :-)
Stu