| February 19, 2005 - Mi Gorda Bella |
| Dear Friends, I still occasionally stop off at Ye Olde Watering Hole for many, many drinks although it's generally against my better judgment. Last night was one such occasion; not that I had a bad time, it was just an occasion that I dropped by there. Anyway, Lucinda, the manager, was watching a Spanish soap opera called "Mi Gorda Bella" which translates to "My Beautiful Fat Girl". Now I don't know if any of you have ever seen a Spanish soap opera, or "novela" as they call them, but they are hysterically funny because everyone overacts in them. Since I can't follow rapidly spoken Spanish, I turned on the closed-captioning so that I could read the words. Let me just say that everyone on this particular novela is related to one another in the oddest sorts of ways. It reminded me a lot of the relationships between the people of CRAPPERTON. And they all had ancient Greek names, like Orestes, Achilles, Pandora, and Olympia. I sat there watching and just laaaafffed; it was all so exaggerated! But, dear friends, what was even funnier was Lucinda trying to explain to me the whole story in somewhat broken English. It went something like this: "You see her? She fat; dat why she called Gorda. But she no fat anymore. She go Spain woon year lose much weight. Now she skinny. But she not wanna people know she skinny so she pretend she still fat. She put pillows on self make her look fat. Nobody know she not fat, but she skinny. But now she pregnant. Soon she be fat again but with baby. You see dat woman dere? She a beeetch. I hate her. She really dat girl mother but dat girl adopted and don't know she really her mother. She a beeetch. She sleep with everybody. Dat man dere. Dat man over dere his father, but he not know it. No, I mean father know dat he de father but son not know dat dat man his father. He de son of dat man 'cause dat man slept with his mother. Dat mother her name Olympia. She a beeetch. She sleep with everybody. She killed her husband. She pushed him out of window and tell everybody he drunk and fell out. His daughter Pandora she sees everyting and suffer much traumas." So as Lucinda kept up her running explanation of who all the different characters were and their relationships with one another, I was doing my best to keep from laughing. Then she turned on another soap called "Rubi" and the same sort of thing started up again. "See dat woman? She a beeetch. She sleep with everybody." Next entry Previous entry Go to diary entries Go back home |