Wednesday, May 27, 2009

This is Hilary Jorgensen reporting live. Moscow, Idaho.

I was walking down the street one evening in downtown Moscow when I passed this homely looking man sitting outside a coffee shop. I smiled, said hi and kept walking when a second later I hear, "Ya wanna hear a compliment?" I'm always up for ego-boosts so I turned around and said, "Um . . . sure."

"You should be on CNN," he said, and I was like, "Uh, thanks?" "Yeah. There's this girl on there right now," he says. "Her name's . . . uh . . . uh . . . well, I can't remember her name. Anyway, it's just not working out."

I tried, just now, to find a picture of an ugly CNN news anchor to post, but it appears they're all pretty, so I guess it really WAS a compliment.

I thought the convo was over (I try to use that word as much as possible cuz I totally know Andy thinks using that word makes one sound like they're totally like, in high school) but he asked what I did for a living. I said dental hygiene and he said he didn't have any teeth and I said, "I know."

"Wanna know how I lost 'em?" So I said, "Drugs?" and he said, "Yep. And now I'm trying to get people not to do them." He then pulled out this picture that he had taken with his camera of this blue piece of paper with his own rotten, extracted teeth glued on to the paper spelling the word METH. Some of those teeth were 20 years old. Who keeps extracted teeth for 20 years? I gotta say, it was quite disturbing, yet very persuasive. He tried to sell it to me thinking he could make some money off it but then Andy called and I told him I had to go meet my husband so I left.

Moral of the story: Don't do drugs because if you do drugs, then maybe someday, somewhere, someone will post about you on their blog making you sound ridiculous (except for the CNN news anchor part--that was totally not ridiculous).

And I'm posting this picture not because it has anything to do with the story, but because a blog post isn't a blog post unless it has a picture. This is Andy and me at a Mariner's game shortly after a 20-ish year-old kid successfully dashed across the entire field, outrunning all the security guys (one totally wiping out at 2nd base) and would have gotten away had a spectator not clotheslined him as he was running up the stairs about 20 feet from where we're standing in this photo. That was by far the most exciting part of the game (in fact, it was the only time we stood up to cheer) since the score was 1-0 and the Mariner's scored that one run in the first inning.

8 comments:

Melissa said...

Great post. And here I was about to try meth for the first time.
I think you would be GREAT on CNN!! I'd totally watch you.
That's AWESOME about the baseball game.
Hey how was Seattle? Did you guys have the best time ever?
We really miss you guys.
I know Masaru does too and Yuki.
Hope things are fun in Boise.

Katie L. said...

I have...no words.

Except I think I love you.

Katie L. said...

(This is Katie Langston by the way. I thought it would publish my last name, but it didn't.)

Quinn, Alexis, Jayden, and Owen Brown said...

you really need to post more often. you tell the funniest stories EVER! and if i had a penny for every time i told you to be an anchor woman on cnn...

Lyric Payne said...

Did that really happen or did you just make it up because there is nothing going on in Moscow. By the way, I totally loved your food snob post. I am the exact same way. Steve tells everyone I am a food snob. Really though, what's wrong with that?

Sijbrich said...

Gosh I wish you still lived in Boise so I could laugh every time I had my teeth cleaned. It's just not the same without you.

Happy belated anniversary, as well.:-)

Miles Family said...

So funny! We have really graphic meth ads here because it's such a problem. That guy could probably sell his teeth here. Tell Andy we say say hello and ttyl!

Jodiane said...

Thanks Hillary. love that post. Miss both of you! See you soon...hopefully i will have clean teeth then, so i don't feel self conscious when we have a convo.