Waxing Political

I found this in my drafts box...and, since election day is just weeks away, I thought it might be apropos.
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This is what happens when two Harbie sisters try to discuss politics during a transcontinental midnight conversation:

April 22, 2010 12:34 AM

Emilee: i got it [an email] from a friend who is very right winged

me: I mean...yes...it is a little extreme.
But there seems to be that element to our society.
If you put half of the hard-working Kenyans in the slums of America...I think they might turn into very different places.

Emilee: but would they turn into free loaders because of the system? in africa they have to to survive in america you complain and you get a free lunch

me: true.
Good point.
I do think that the world needs more equality though

Emilee: it is just getting there that is the problem

me: But the ant and the grasshopper will be equals...
and some people might not like that.
The world might come to an end before that.
But let me get my food storage first.

Emilee: you are one of the lesser ten virgins?

me: No.
I'm not a lesser.
I just live in Africa...and my food storage is somewhere between Bountiful and Farmington.
If the end of the world comes, we'll be eating a lot of rice.

Emilee: i would say just start be being on us soil
rice....got ta love it

me: And I do.
Yes I do.
Yes.
I.
Do.

Emilee: i doubt you will eat rice for at least six months after you get home
*back

me: I know.
My body is rebelling against anything healthy at the moment.
I had fries and a Coke for lunch today.
How's that for lunch of champions?

Emilee: A coke....i didn't know you liked coke

me: I don't.

Emilee: but?

me: I'm trying to kill things.
Like tapeworms and microbes that make a rumbly in my tumbly.

Emilee: ha ha ha ha ha ha....the bliss of third world countries

me: You have no idea.
I'm not sure I'll ever be the same.

Emilee: i know you won't be the same
you never were normal, so guess you never were "same"

me: Ha.
Ha.

Emilee: i'm funny

me: looking.

Emilee: people say i take after you

me: You said it.
I was never normal to begin with...
And neither were you.

Emilee: like two peas in a pod

me: I love legumes.

Emilee: green ones?

me: Especially the green ones.

Emilee: so does this make us grasshoppers?

me: Nope.
Just enviromentalists.

Emilee: oh so we are al gore now?

me: I don't do botox.

Emilee: well i invented botox

me: You two should get along nicely.

Emilee: like two peas in a pod

me: I love legumes.