Randomness

[tiggymalvern]

We're in Walla Walla this week on an anniversary trip, and we were just wine tasting at Kyle MacLachlan's winery. We were chatting with the winery lady about his career and got to talking about David Lynch's Dune.

Winery Lady: I never read the books.

My SO: I read them all. I always tell people to read the first three then stop. After that, they're all backstory and world-building without much plot.

Winery lady: (looks confused)

Me looking at this casually dressed middle aged woman who knows about wine-making processes in excessively nerdy detail: It's like the difference between reading The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, if that makes any sense to you.

Winery lady: Ah, I see!

Sometimes you can take a pretty good guess about someone you don't know at all.

Comments

[tameiki]

I was wondering about that, it didn't sound right that a house your size would only have one bathroom. *laughs* Thanks for the explanation.

Yes, the asbestos thing was ridiculous - to the tune of $335 just for them to come out and $35 a pop for each test, which they had to do three to make sure we didn't have any nonexistent asbestos. We were super careful of the materials that were used but what the hell do we know. Bleh. The good thing (I guess?) is that they were out there already so we only got charged half the $335 of the "yes, we get paid just to show up" fee. Then, $50 for each mold test, of which there were three. Then, once all the repairs are done we get to pay another $335 and $150 for the "we're just checking to make sure there's no more mold" test. There goes a grand right there. FH is having kittens over the prices. XD