[Ansteorra] "Freaking the Mundanes"

[HE Chiang]

I would have given much to see you speechless.
Chi...uh...Gavin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul DeLisle" <ferretpd at gmail.com>
To: "'Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.'" <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] "Freaking the Mundanes"


> Actually, we drove up to the window, waited for our food, and as she 
> handed
> it to me, I got THE Question...
> ...the Classic one...the one that everyone waits their whole SCA lives 
> for:
>
> "Are you all in a play?"
>
> I was actually speechless for about a half a second (...an eternity in the
> AldenTalking universe); ...I looked around the car to see 4 other faces 
> also
> desperately trying to choose *just* the right response. But I decided to 
> be
> a good SCAer; and turned back to the window, (as Claire so aptly put it)
> putting my mouth into in "we recreate the Middle Ages" gear... at which
> point, her co-worker jumped to the window, and said: "No, no... I know, I
> KNOW! ...They're on a *Scavenger Hunt*!"
>
> I just flat couldn't recover from a One-Two punch like that...so I closed 
> my
> gaping jaw, nodded, and we took our food and drove off like the faculty of
> ACU was after us...
>
> Alden
> (Good times....LOL)