August Meeting

The August meeting will be hosted by Mame. Again, hooking is optional based on climactic conditions. 

The theme is going to be "S....for story". The goal is to make something that begins with an "S". Mame will provide "s"teak and "s"alt for the margaritas. Trixie has already signed up for "s"alad.

RSVP by sending Mame an email or commenting here.

How much spaghetti can one safely consume?

The hookers met at Del Grosso's Spaghetti Night for their July meeting. It's a little too hot for hooking this time of year and you can easily tempt a hooker with pasta and the promise of a 45-minute car ride with other hookers. 

Tara, Trixie, Hillary, and Shannon arrived early to see swarms of people lined up for the pasta. You know what a hooker is thinking when she sees people lining up for food. The competitive edge takes over and the hooker tries to deduce the fastest way to get to the prize. And then she thinks, "The sauce must be amazing to warrant this many people coming out in the heat."

The choices were Spaghetti with Meat Sauce or Rigatoni with Vodka Sauce. 

The line moved swiftly and the pasta was well worth the wait. It was a little too much food for one person to tackle, but some of us cleaned our plates only to suffer the agony of being completely full and sick at a humid amusement park pavilion. If you eat that much pasta at home, there are comfortable places to lie in the supine position and wait for the fullness to pass, but I don't think picnic tables are really conducive to that sort of thing.

Hookers Cassandra, Mame and Cindy arrived later with special guests Amy and Gene in tow. Their wait was much longer but obviously patience paid off a second time. Some hookers even managed to put down a funnel cake after the fact because A) who can resist a funnel cake and B) what better way to impress the other hookers than to eat a funnel cake after a mound of pasta?

There were two highlights of the evening for me: 

1. Seeing Trixie saddle up to an older gentleman and use her magical powers of flirting/talking with strangers. I am convinced that Trixie could solve world peace if only the world's evil dictators would start to frequent fleas/yard sales/food joints in the Tri-State area.
   
2. Seeing Cindy and the rest of the hookers get splashed with waterpark spillage on the way to our cars. It was completely unexpected but welcome considering the humidity.
   

Special thanks to the hookers who drove!