Monday, April 28, 2008

Kick me when I'm down

They ate my Oreos, the cunting fucking cunts!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't have words to express my outrage. It was bad enough deciding to race a boat that they knew I couldn't participate in, and in doing so effectively kicked me out of the boat club and cut me off from racing in what would have been my last competitive season. That was bad enough. That was heart-breaking.

I left training camp early and came back to Bristol, but I left behind in Reading the cooking equipment that I'd brought along. We were staying in University of Reading dorms, which are self-catered (ie you cook your own food rather than eat in caffeterias), but we had to bring our own pots and pans. I brought the biggest pots and pans. I brought the only pot that was big enough to cook pasta for 8 people, and the only pan that was wide enough to saute enough ground beef for spaghetti sauce for pasta for 8 people. So as a favor, as a fucking favor to the fucking cunts who kicked me off the team, I left my giant pots, pans, strainers, mixing bowls and wooden utensils behind for them to use for the remainder of the week. I also left behind some food that I'd bought but wouldn't be eating and couldn't be arsed to carry back to Bristol.

And then there were the Oreos.

I love Oreos, and they're one of the foods that (as you know) I've whinged that I can't get in the UK. At least not in any of the stores around here.

While in Reading we shopped at a gigantic 24-hour Tesco, and while walking down the cookie isle looking for caramel digestives and jaffa cakes, I saw them. Their gleaming blue, black and white packaging containing the promise of bitter, crumbly, fake-chocolate cookies sandwiching tasteless filling of lard and sugar within. Heaven. The kind of heaven that soaks up cold milk like Jeebus-krispie soaks up gay-hate rhetoric from the foaming mouth of Pat Robertson and turns into a slimy, mushy, fake-cocoa and fatty, sugary pile of slop on your tongue and leaves little black crumbs in the bottom of the milk. That kind of heaven. I bought a bag. (Obv.)

I made a big deal out of how I happy I was that I had found Oreos. Everyone knew of my Oreo obsession. When I left I made it extremely clear to everyone exactly which food I was leaving behind that was to be designated "communal." I even wrote down exactly what was mine and what they were entitled to. That was in one area of the kitchen. In another area, in a different cupboard, I forgot my beloved Oreos. It was a frantic, emotional morning, out of sight out of mind and all that. And I'm notorious for forgetting shit, just ask my 10th grade art teacher.

Before I'd left, but after it was too late to go back for the Oreos, I smacked my forehead and realized my error. I was really pissed off at myself, both for general stupidity and because I was looking forward to getting home, having a serious cry, and tucking in to a bag of the least nutritious, best-tasting comfort food that Ceiling Cat ever put on the face of the Earth, and now through my own idiocy I was depriving myself of one of the only comforts I had to look forward to.

I made a big wail over the whole thing and begged my Captain L and Coach O to bring my Oreos back to Bristol on the weekend with the rest of my cookware. This was not a case of accidental misunderstanding. They promised.

AND THEN THE FUCKING CUNTS ATE MY OREOS AND THEY CAN ALL DIE AND ROT IN HELL THE GODDAMN FUCKING ASSHOLES.

I know it's just a bag of cookies, but talk about adding insult to injury. First they gave me the broken heart of a lifetime when they told me they were racing a boat that I couldn't row and were thereby depriving me of the triumphal comeback that had been my sole motivation to keep training since I wrecked my back,
and then, in my moment of despair, they took away my one stupid comfort, a taste of home that I hadn't had in years. A simple, simple joy; a taste of home. The cunts ate my Oreos.



How could they?

19 comments:

CompuNerd said...

hmm....oreos....maybe I'll have to go pick myself up a bag at the corner store after lunch today...

Yeah, I know...I'm a bastard.

Sorry about your loss though.

Billy said...

I can get Oreos round here. I'll post you some if you like...

H said...

They are indeed cunts, but your ability to get hugely upset about what are fairly revolting biscuits is either impressive or frightening.

Moominmama said...

C/nerd: thanks. just, thanks.

Billy: i might just take you up on that.

Homer: yeah, us kooky yanks huh?

CompuNerd said...

You're welcome. I thought that would help you out.

I'm sure that old art teacher would be happy to know that you still forget shit. :)

Geosomin said...

"The kind of heaven that soaks up cold milk like Jeebus-krispie soaks up gay-hate rhetoric from the foaming mouth of Pat Robertson and turns into a slimy, mushy, fake-cocoa and fatty, sugary pile of slop on your tongue and leaves little black crumbs in the bottom of the milk"
Geezuz...send me your address and I'll mail you a few bags...one to eat and one to throw at the cunts who ate the other ones...
Seriously. some things are necessary in life. Oreos are one of them.

Johanna said...

Psst - they sell them in Somerfields. Which doesn't make those people any less cunty of course.

Romeo Morningwood said...

Cruel and Unusual punishment is in order.
Waterboarding (now sanctioned by the US Government) would be too good for those bastards.

Agnostic Possom said...

C-B, I love your British wit and prose! Such colorful conversation is refreshing and rare stateside.

Moominmama said...

C/nerd: if you see him, tell him i said "hi."

Geo: thank you for recognizing the necessity of said confection. people here just don't understand. i'm a stranger, in a strange land.

loganoc: psst: i don't have a somerfields.

Donn: too right. get on that, will ya?

A.P.: hi, and welcome! i like your moniker. just out of curiosity, you know i'm a Yank, right? My British humour is entirely feigned.

Sal said...

Welcome to England.

CompuNerd said...

Last I heard, he married a past student and left the school. Don't hear much about him anymore.

ZB said...

You said the C word.

Ceebs. I'm shocked.

Agnostic Possom said...

CB: I was totally unaware of your heritage, as I stumbled across your blog a mere two days ago. You seem to have assimilated well into British culture. I see you've published scores of commentary I have yet to read!
Thanks for linking to the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster! My quest for truth made a great leap forward!

Agnostic Possom said...

Here in the Midwest, the C-word seems to be the single, most-offensive word to women. Is that universal? Why?

Moominmama said...

sal: tell me about it. if it ain't nailed down, it's gonna grow legs. again i say: cunts.

C/nerd: ha! that sounds like something he would do. letch.

Herebe: even the most docile of creatures will attacked if sufficiently provoked. Oreos are SACRED, damnit.

'Possum: if you're interested in a little critical back reading, allow me to suggest the posts

Soap Opera
Episode II: There's a Line Back There Somewhere
Part III: Between a Sponge and a Soft Place
from July 2006 for your crucial intro to the Pirate, and

Proper Drama, ER-style
ER Drama, Part II
from November 2006 for the background of rowing and back-related issues.

if you want.

Moominmama said...

AP: as for the C-word, I have mixed feelings on it. I don't regard it as significantly more offensive than other curses such as bitch and fuck, but most people do so i use it a bit more sparingly. As a linguist, it seems silly to me that people should take such offense at what amounts to a short string of phonemes. Why should 'cunt' be so much more offensive than 'cat'? Odd. On the other hand, as a writer and literary scholar i have to acknowledge that words do have a certain power, and it's worth saving a few words as 'big guns' for when you really want verbally nuke someone. So yes, 'cunt' is considered seriously fucking offensive over here as well as the states. That's why i used it rather, erm, liberally. They ate my OREOS, for the love of Christ!!!

CompuNerd said...

well, to stretch on the previously noted, if I recall the rumor correctly, he was found sleeping with students and had been for a number of years and he finally married one of them(one that both you and I knew) and left the school.

Agnostic Possom said...

But have you tried the Strawberry Milkshake Creme Oreos?
That's true heaven!