Saturday, January 31, 2009
"No Modifiers!"
Last weekend I found myself arriving late to a birthday party. I was not late because I did not get into the shower on time. I was not lat because I could not find my keys. I was late because I could not find a pair of socks to wear. This all started out as a great day that just took a turn for the worst. Earlier that day, I had returned to my dorm room after just completing my first full week of junior year at Manhattanville College. I placed my book bag on the floor of my room, turned on some tunes on my I-pod, and jumped in the shower with plenty of time to drive to the party. After drying myself off, and picking out something nice to wear, I pulled out my drawer and expected to find it filled with socks. I stuck my hand all the way to the back of the drawer, and still no socks. I had decided to continue getting dressed, leaving the socks for last. With just an hour before the start of the party, I had begun to worry that I would be late because the house was just about an hour away with the car. I decided to ask my roommates if they would lend me a pair, but they had all already left for the weekend. So now here I am with a nice suit and tie on, with no socks! Knowing I would be terribly late if I did not leave within the following minutes, I put on my shoes without and socks and headed for the door. I ended up being 2 hours late for the party anyway because of traffic, and everyone noticed that I didn’t have on any socks!
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I like the fact that although you were clearly using no modifiers, your story still flowed in a very succinct manner. The lack of adjectives and adverbs was very seamlessly woven into the duologue of your predicament! Plus, having no socks is the worst!
ReplyDeleteI find this post to be a funny story. It fit the requirements of the post but still told the story. The story brings up a few questions to me though. If your roommates had left already I would have just taken a pair of socks without asking. Also I know its after the fact but if you were two hours late I would have stopped and picked up a pair of socks because I was two hours late anyway what’s another ten minutes. Anyway it is a funny story which involves one of my biggest pet peeves, traffic.
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