Shakespeare, Spies, & Weddings
After picking up several groceries for the evening, Collette and Carrie-Bri met up at the park ‘n ride with Diana and Bing, to see Julius Caesar once again. Reaching downtown, they marched to the green with a cooler and folding chairs to enjoy some old friend time. Diana and Collette talked of what had happened since Diana’s graduation, and of her plans for Chicago while Bing read Ben-Hur and munched half a bag of Doritoes and Carrie-Bri read A Million Little Pieces. Things hadn’t changed much – Carrie was still the tomboy who once gave Bing piggy-back rides around the yard, and Bing was still the quiet eccentric red-head who once performed Mr. & Mrs. Funny shows with Carrie. (He once fired her as Mrs. Funny and briefly hired Eve instead – he was quite serious about the quality of his performance).
They did decide to leave during intermission, however, as it became quite cold and Diana was only wearing capris. There was other talk on the way back – Carrie’s plans to travel soon, perhaps a month in Europe, of getting her master’s degree…
“Carrie, you’d better not get your masters before I do,” Carrie threatened from the back seat. “I’d be so mad. You almost got your bachelors before I did. I would have died if you had!”
And Diana and Carrie recalled their escapade in New York with the other girls – of how they acted as spies to keep track of a little Jewish man who was bothering Diana’s friend on their first date. They followed close behind, pretending to have conversations on their cell phones.
“We must have freaked some people out too,” Carrie said, “when we followed him into the subway.”
“Yeah,” Diana continued, “we were searching all the tracks. I was, like, on one side, and Carrie was on the other, and we were going through there so fast.”
“We were race-walking.”
“Man, we were, like, starting to scare people. Everyone was looking at us.”
“But we lost him.”
“I hope he chokes on a matzah ball!” Diana said loudly.
“May his yamaka be forever inside out.” Carrie finished.
And then Carrie related her recent tornado story and Diana told about her latest match-making enterprise and of her roommate who was to be married the following October. She had been given a ten thousand dollar diamond and the wedding was to take place on an old plantation in South Carolina. Diana was to be a bridesmaid. It all seemed quite the extravagance. Diana was also to be in Velvet and Alfonso’s wedding that coming October. And life carried on in such manners as these.