I’m so ticked that we missed the condo board meeting! Harrumph! What Mary’s not telling Madi is the board member who said, “This banana bread is pretty good, not like those dry, tasteless muffins that Worth woman usually brings.”
I hope Nance does a BFH title today. With this material, I’m hoping for a doozy. (No pressure at all, Nance!)
WHAT???!!! We were cheated out of seeing reaction to dessert at the big condo meeting???
I'm chagrined! My dander has never been higher! My umbrage has been taken to a new level!
I was eagerly anticipating the general swooning over the banana bread. The standing ovation. Toby taking numerous bows. The chants of TO-BY! TO-BY! TO-BY!
They make us slog through week after week of the same boring conversations, and then they skip the only part that might possibly be interesting.
The first rule of Charterstone Meeting: there is no Charterstone Meeting. Perhaps part of the Mary victory lap will be reminiscing with Toby, including flashbacks of the Meeting highlights.
Hold it! This just in! Mary: Oh, Toby! I’ll never forgot how pleased everyone was with the special Meeting Masks I made for them, especially with how I personalized them.
Toby’s flashback to what Ian had to say: ( “No true Scotsman would e’er wear a mask! An’ no Cameron man would e’er wear a mask with the damnable Mackintosh tartan!“)
Mary: And didn’t Saul look cute with the lambs wool mask on?
Mary: And Wilbur seemed really pleased with his pig mask.
Toby: (“ Toby, do I have mustard on my snout, and can you wipe it off for me?” EWWWW)
Mary: Did you enjoy The Airing of the Grievances?
Toby: (They’re always the same. “Old Man Wynter’s dog soils the grass near the pool.” “Wilbur Weston breaks wind in the common area near the mailboxes.” “A certain cat owner empties a litter box Over the balcony railing.” “When will the official condo manager come to a meeting?” “Too much day-drinking at the picnic tables. Hey, Worth, don’t give me the stink eye!” “Serenity now! Serve the dern cocktails!”
Mary: And everyone really loved my Special Charterstone Cocktail. They kept saying, ‘what is IN this stuff??’ I gave each of them a printed copy on my special unofficial manager notepaper. Pour one quart vodka and one quart gin into a shaker filled with ice. Add 1 pint ouzo, 1 pint anisette, 2 teaspoons black pepper. Shake and serve with olives and cocktail onions in a tall glass. Serves four, but it’s easy to double: Add two quarts vodka and two quarts gin...
Toby: OKAY, Mary, got it! (Poor Mr. Allora had an awful job cleaning up the hall last night. “Why do they do this to me, their beloved superintendent? @#$&%*! I’m going to apply for that opening at Walmart tomorrow!”)
Mary: But the best part was when we couldn’t properly speak through our masks, and I suggested that we do charades to conduct business. I always like to have an alternate plan available in time of crisis- that’s just the kind of person I am. The...
Toby: “But what about the banana bread?”
Mary: Everyone loved Madi’s recipe!
Toby: “Is there any of that swill from last night left? If so, pour me a quart-on the rocks.”
Mary: I’ll join you. Shall we take our drinks out to the picnic tables?
meg! Hilarious! Loved the "airing ofthe grievances". Sounds like they were inspired by actual events at a HOA meeting. Exultations to everyone else as well. A productively snarky Friday for one and all.
We may have missed the meeting - but the banana bread turned out great and that's all that matters. (What on earth could her secret recipe be? I think this may be the lamest resolution in all my years of reading MW.
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Today's Boldface Haiku is titled
"Recap: This Plot Really IS About A No-Name Woman And Some Banana Bread".
Proud. Saved!
Hit.
Glad. Gram!
Always part!
I’m so ticked that we missed the condo board meeting! Harrumph! What Mary’s not telling Madi is the board member who said, “This banana bread is pretty good, not like those dry, tasteless muffins that Worth woman usually brings.”
I hope Nance does a BFH title today. With this material, I’m hoping for a doozy. (No pressure at all, Nance!)
Nance delivered a doozy BFH title - huzzah! You’re the best, Nance!
WHAT???!!! We were cheated out of seeing reaction to dessert at the big condo meeting???
I'm chagrined! My dander has never been higher! My umbrage has been taken to a new level!
I was eagerly anticipating the general swooning over the banana bread. The standing ovation. Toby taking numerous bows. The chants of TO-BY! TO-BY! TO-BY!
They make us slog through week after week of the same boring conversations, and then they skip the only part that might possibly be interesting.
It just ain't fair.
-- Scottie McW.
Thanks Nance! Your BFH is the best thing to come out of this "plot".
I like “saved Toby’s banana bread”. It’s an evocative expression. I think I would use it the way people would say “you saved my bacon.”
eg I was having a cruddy day until I read Mary Worth & Me. Thanks Wanders, you really saved my banana bread!
I don’t think much of Madi’s swimwear. It looks like it was fabricated out of foam can koozies. Mary swimsuit probably came with a matching swim cap.
The first rule of Charterstone Meeting: there is no Charterstone Meeting. Perhaps part of the Mary victory lap will be reminiscing with Toby, including flashbacks of the Meeting highlights.
Hold it! This just in!
Mary: Oh, Toby! I’ll never forgot how pleased everyone was with the special Meeting Masks I made for them, especially with how I personalized them.
Toby’s flashback to what Ian had to say: ( “No true Scotsman would e’er wear a mask! An’ no Cameron man would e’er wear a mask with the damnable Mackintosh tartan!“)
Mary: And didn’t Saul look cute with the lambs wool mask on?
Toby: (“No, Greta! Stop barking! Don’t bite me! See, it’s Daddy! Aaarrgh!”)
Mary: And Wilbur seemed really pleased with his pig mask.
Toby: (“ Toby, do I have mustard on my snout, and can you wipe it off for me?” EWWWW)
Mary: Did you enjoy The Airing of the Grievances?
Toby: (They’re always the same. “Old Man Wynter’s dog soils the grass near the pool.”
“Wilbur Weston breaks wind in the common area near the mailboxes.”
“A certain cat owner empties a litter box Over the balcony railing.”
“When will the official condo manager come to a meeting?”
“Too much day-drinking at the picnic tables. Hey, Worth, don’t give me the stink eye!”
“Serenity now! Serve the dern cocktails!”
Mary: And everyone really loved my Special Charterstone Cocktail. They kept saying, ‘what is
IN this stuff??’ I gave each of them a printed copy on my special unofficial manager notepaper.
Pour one quart vodka and one quart gin into a shaker filled with ice. Add 1 pint ouzo, 1 pint anisette, 2 teaspoons black pepper. Shake and serve with olives and cocktail onions in a tall glass. Serves four, but it’s easy to double: Add two quarts vodka and two quarts gin...
Toby: OKAY, Mary, got it! (Poor Mr. Allora had an awful job cleaning up the hall last night. “Why do they do this to me, their beloved superintendent? @#$&%*! I’m going to apply for that opening at Walmart tomorrow!”)
Mary: But the best part was when we couldn’t properly speak through our masks, and I suggested that we do charades to conduct business.
I always like to have an alternate plan available in time of crisis- that’s just the kind of person I am. The...
Toby: “But what about the banana bread?”
Mary: Everyone loved Madi’s recipe!
Toby: “Is there any of that swill from last night left? If so, pour me a quart-on the rocks.”
Mary: I’ll join you. Shall we take our drinks out to the picnic tables?
meg! Hilarious! Loved the "airing ofthe grievances". Sounds like they were inspired by actual events at a HOA meeting. Exultations to everyone else as well. A productively snarky Friday for one and all.
We may have missed the meeting - but the banana bread turned out great and that's all that matters. (What on earth could her secret recipe be? I think this may be the lamest resolution in all my years of reading MW.
Great stuff, Meg! My mental picture of Wilbur in his mask is hilarious.
-- S. McW.
This was far too easy for Mary. Madi offered no resistance.
Is Madi's bikini top actually the top portion of a barrel with straps attached? I have never seen anything like it in real life.
Apparently the secret ingredient was small pebbles because Madi and Mary seem to have lost their teeth.
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