MNO

[lisamoe]

I went to Homeschool Mom's Night Out for the third time tonight. I know that must sound colossally boring, but that's only if you haven't been. These are the funniest raunchiest women you could ever hope to meet. I used to belong to a regular playgroup for my kids and I had to just force myself to talk to all these suburban, religious, middle-class bitches. They would try to be nice to me, in a vaguely condescending way, but I was not of their tribe and we all knew it.

My homeschool group, however, is full of real women with real lives. They have hilarious stories about their kids, their sex lives, their wild days of kleptomania and drugs, and almost nothing is too shocking to mention. I have lusted after a group of girlfriends like this for a lifetime, and here they are.

The only problem is that I know we're eventually going to get kicked out of the Borders where we meet. The staff gives us funny looks and other bookstore patrons all move away from us on the group W bench. Maybe it's all the talk about flogging and blowjobs and Uranus, or maybe we're just laughing too loud.

Tonight I met a woman at MNO who lives in a bus with her family and they travel around, painting leather jackets and motorcycles at shows, as best I can gather. She was witty and fascinating and I liked her a lot. Now, that's the kind of person you never meet at suburban white bread playgroups.

Comments

[tura.livejournal.com]

The homeschool group sounds hilarious. If you get kicked out of Borders, then try a Starbucks. You'll probably get kicked out of there too...but you'll annoy the Starbucks people, and I find that to be its own reward. Actually, you should try meeting at a Denny's or something, it takes ALOT to get thrown out of Denny's, my ex-roleplaying group used to go there all the time and have long 0n-character conversations about all sorts of heinous things, and the staff never so much as batted an eye at us. They're made of sterner stuff than your average Borders employee.

Rhias
PS: You need to get the DVD "Dress to Kill" by Eddie Izzard when it comes out - he's the kind of guy i want to marry, and the funniest stand up comic ever.

[lisamoe.livejournal.com]

I've seen Dress to Kill. I love Eddie Izzard too. I also have an episode of Whose Line is it Anyway with him on it. Don't you think he looks just a little like Victor?