| December
23, 2001
lena
vageena
In the
tenth grade, a girl named Lena made two remarks which have stuck with me.
In English class, Lena asked the teacher, "Did the Myths really happen?"
I recall the teacher kindly explaining to her what the word "myth" meant
while the rest of us ruptured internal organs stifling laughter.
In biology class that same year, Lena read and pronounced the word "vagina"
out loud as "vageena;" thus, she was forever referred to as Lena Vageena.
Incidentally, Lena Vageena was reported to be in prison by the time of
our ten-year reunion. At a "mixer," I tried to organize a drunken
mob into a drunken, ANGRY mob for the purpose of breaking Lena Vageena
out of prison. It fizzled when several of us passed out. Anyway,
I learned from Lena that mistakes are adhesive and mobs are unreliable. |