The Curtsey
Carlo and Ricky are walking by Greenbelt 5 when they see Jaime Augusto and Fernando Zobel posing for pictures with a group of men in suits. Carlo says to Ricky: “I’m going to run and stand between those two. You take a picture with your phone, and then I run away.”
Reason prevails and the plan is not executed. But Carlo is adamant. “I have to meet them,” he declares, “And have my picture taken. I have to compete with my mother’s pictures with famous people.”
“Do you ride a motorcycle?” I suggest.
“I had a scooter. A Vespa.”
“Uhh, maybe not. Do you play rugby?”
“I can bake them a cake.”
A few days later Carlo has a dream. “In the dream,” he tells me, “You introduced me to Jaime Augusto, and he turned to this long line of people and said, ‘You have to curtsey to him.’ Then everyone curtsied, including the actress who played Tony Blair’s wife in The Queen starring Helen Mirren. You know, that actress? She curtseys to the queen with this slightly mocking expression? She did that to me, too. And everywhere I turned, people curtsied to me.”
“What was I doing?” I ask.
“I didn’t see, you were in the back.”
“As long as I didn’t curtsey to you,” I say.
“I think not.”
“Are you on Lithium?” Ricky asks.
“No, vitamin C,” Carlo says.
I think we should do a TV show about nothing, except that it’s been done and we have too many Elaines.
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January 18th, 2008 at 11:36
not sure if it’s a compliment, but you’re lumped together with other ‘celebrity’ bloggers like chuckie dreyfus, glaiza de castro, quark henares, lovi poe, etc… on http://whatsikat.com . maybe i should have my photo taken with you too!