When a friend visits our new house, after we’ve lived there only a few weeks, and comments that it appears we’ve settled in well, that it looks like we’ve been there longer than a few short weeks, Darlene says,
“We good at this.”
Walking across the blacktop parking lot to the store, I ask Darlene if she thinks her own joke is funny. She says,
“I don’t know. I just deliver it. I’m not responsible.”
Darlene, musing on useful phrases in the English language, says
“I appreciate the phrase ‘running errands’ or ‘I have an errand to run.’ It saves you from sharing your business, like ‘excuse me, Ihave to go pay my light bill.’
After clicking off a YouTube video that starts to play after the one she was watching, Darlene says,
“I don’t want to be caught in a vortex.”
When I reassure Darlene that she is a “good person,” she says,
“Yeah, but is it paying off?”
Talking about a relationship that ended, Darlene says,
“Yeah, we had fun. Well, it was fun, until it wasn’t.”
When I keep saying, “I keep thinking it’s Friday,” Darlene replies,
“It ain’t.”
When someone gives bad relationship advice, like one of her continuation school students, let’s say, Darlene says,
“Ok, now you’re Dr. So and So?”
When a comment on our vlog turns into a doctoral thesis about how I totally misunderstood the Puritans, said commenter provides links to her blog on Puritanism, and Darlene says,
“She all into her whiteness.”
When a staff member wants to do something nice before the end of year for teachers who got noticed, Darlene says,
“I don’t want no cake for getting laid off.”