Carrie & Paige & The Amateur Stage
Friday, July 8, 2005
Carrie did, indeed, have wonderful stories of her ventures in Kansas City. After meeting two pleasant Egyptians, one who had his own silver company in his homeland and made handmade jewelry, there was plenty more to see.
“Even two marines, marines, in full uniform, came up to us,” Carrie was saying, sporting a new Abercrombie yellow baseball cap. “And then we just started talking black the whole time. Because everyone thinks that we talk like that in St. Louis. So we were talking about how everything was ‘off the hizzy’, and talking about how they ‘don’t need no ID’ in the Loo. And we told them there’s a club on every corner and a corner on every block…”
“And they believed you?” Collette was astonished.
“They did. And then we went to lunch today with Kitts. And it was this really upper class place. All the servers were men dressed in suits, to the tens. And so our waiter was really cute, blond hair though, but had these great blue eyes. And so when we were finished, I told the girls I was going to tip him extra because of his fine blue eyes. And just when I finished saying it, he walked up right behind Sarah. And Sarah was like, ‘Well, Carrie, if you think he’s that cute, why don’t you just leave him your number’. My face turned like ten shades of red, I was so embarrassed. And I was just smiling at the guy, pretending I didn’t hear anything. And then Sarah says, ‘Oh come on, Carrie, like he’s standing right behind me’. It was so bad. Kitts almost threw up, she was laughing so hard.”
Yes, it was much more of a comic recital with Carrie telling the tale. She had a knack for spinning a good yarn (true or false), but Collette was most happy to see that she had a marvelous time.
The only downside had been that while driving to Kansas City, Paige had received a phone call from her “intended” (as Grandma Snicketts would say). He informed her, sadly, that he was being shipped to Afghanistan for a year, after leaving Japan. He would receive no leave in between, and Paige, of course, was crushed. But then again, it was an honor, being one of the two selected from four hundred soldiers to be taken over. In the meantime, Carrie-Bri and Paige Popp made plans for hand-gun shooting lessons, get-togethers, and even Paige wanted to enter the FBI.
“No one would believe us when we told them what we were studying in school,” Carrie said, laughing. “Criminal Justice and Emergency Response Management. They were like, ‘Yeah, right’.”
Oh, the fun times of life.
And Mr. Sing’s second production of “Whale of a Tale” performed that same night. Carrie enjoyed watching a rerun of the first production in which she had participated four years earlier. Izzy played the part of Jonah. And “Shakespeare” (Sir Magnus Pie, III), Wally, and Curly, were the three stooges narrators. Amidst the crab legs, British cannibalistic Ninevites, and synthetic whale… the play was pulled off moderately well and the audience got a good kick out of the whole thing.