Then we’re getting ready for Quest, or
not getting ready really just waiting until it's late enough, and I get a
trick, which turns into another trick, which turns into $350 and somehow I
don't even think about throwing my purse on top of all the other bags like
usual, tonight we are taking a taxi home, that's for sure, but then when we're
getting ready to go I look in my purse and there's nothing there. I mean
there's my face powder, my keys, and nothing else. I’m so angry, and no one
seems to understand. Listen, I say, I just sold my ass for that money, these
fucking bitches think they can talk about you like your trash, and then steal
all your fucking money, what is wrong with this town? And then when we get home
I'm still angry so I decide to make a flyer and hand it out next week and Abby
thinks I'm joking but honey, I'm going to make the flyer, and then we'll hand
it out next week, okay?
Kinko's glamour and then we actually do
hand out the flyer, right at closing so we can give it to everyone. No one knows
what to do. They just look at me like I'm joking. I am joking. Sort of. I mean
I'm joking that I think they're actually going to care.
But I have to update you about our photo
booth pictures, right? I don't even know where I stopped last time, but I guess
the best place to start is with pregnant twins. Abby and I are trying and
trying to think of the best outfit for the fucking White Party, who are they
kidding, throwing a White Party at Avalon? And at first I’m thinking matching
bloody wedding dresses, but even though we have like 15 wedding dresses from
Dollar-a-Pound it turns out they're all so small around the waist that we would
have to wear them as necklaces. Or bracelets. And honey, as you know, we are
skinny girls. Just the wrong type of girls, I guess. In case you didn't know.
So then I think what else indicates
purity like pregnancy, so Abby and I head over to Woolworth’s and get the
ugliest possible matching nightgowns, bouncing balls to enliven our figure,
curly reddish-brown wigs and even matching size 14 women's Keds – I knew
Woolworth's was the answer, we barely even spend $20 each, thanks to low prices
and a little bit of label changing.
We smear a little lipstick on, I mean a
lot of lipstick, add some bags under our eyes with eye shadow and then we are
off. It's kind of intense that everyone at Avalon wants to punch our babies — I
mean literally three different guys who we don't even know, winding their arms
around like we are just walking punching bags, modeling the quintessential
fatherly behavior I guess. In the photo booth we are trying to show off the
baby-in-waiting, but mostly you just get to see us laughing, oh well.
And what are these ones from? I'm
wearing the gorgeous floor-length polyester floral dress, and I'm doing that
new thing where I spike my hair and pull the top up into a point, kind of like
an antenna, and then I make the front into a triangle. Oh — this is when Abby
cut her hair really short and bleached it, we look pretty messy.
Then there are the ones from the Children's
Museum — yes, the children need them. I've got my hair down on my forehead almost
into triangles like argyle matching my tights, and Abby actually looks kind of
tough and manly. But don't tell her I said that. My spit curls go almost all
the way down to my mouth, hello.
Then there's the photo where I've
arranged my silver clips into diagonal lines, plus big red flower earrings and honey,
you won't believe it, I'm shirtless with the quilted floor-length skirt and a
target painted on my chest with lipstick. Abby is going intellectual with
glasses and a frilly nightgown.
But yes, look at these, another twins
event when we take all this thick black rubber tubing that I found on the
street, and wrap it around our necks and honey that shit is heavy but it sure
does look good, like we’re modeling runaway space couture and don't forget the
matching pink terrycloth dresses. For some reason Abby looks like she's going
to bite my eyebrows off and I have the clips attached to my ears this time,
pointing out to the world. Everyone thinks that's painful, which adds to the
allure.
Next, Abby's makeup starts to get
dramatic, after she learns the eyebrow thing from Madison, although truth be
told I like the messy look better. Abby’s wearing my fluorescent pink dog
collar. I know you can't see fluorescent pink in a black-and-white photo, but
I'm just saying. Abby's hair looks flawless, how did she get that wig arranged
into the cutest curls and we're chewing on opposite sides of a pair of
eyeglasses, sisters indeed, those weird crystalline blue glasses without lenses
that sometimes I wear for extra wackiness. And then the photo booth breaks
again.

1 comment:
Quite insightful. You have brought some really good points.Thanks
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