Glimpses
into the Life and Times of Mrs. Dunwoodie (Continued)
Coyote snickered, well, as much as a coyote with a mouthful
of synthetic blond hair can snicker, at the thought of poor Mrs. Dunwoodie
awakening poolside with a sunburned bald spot wondering who avulsed her wig.
“She won’t be
taking this decumbent,”
sighed old Mr. Fenster when dawn’s early light revealed the toilet paper
streamers decorating his neighbor Mrs. Dunwoodie’s lawn and trees.
Far back in the dusty reaches of Mrs. Dunwoodie’s aging
mind, a smidgen of inwit
nestled, a smidgen which kept her from rushing out in broad daylight and
rolling herself up in the toilet paper streamers festooning her yard.
“One good thing about Mrs. Dunwoodie wearing shorts this
late in the summer is that when the hair on her legs begins to inspissate, I know to
prepare for an unusually cold winter,” Mr. Fenster said to the furnace repair
man.
Not only did the landscaping yob assault Mrs. Dunwoodie’s ears and sinuses as
he used the leafblower for three hours, in his sloppy handling of the noisome
machine he sent her brand new wig off on a new flight.
Because it was more like a bottomless pit than a handbag, in
which Mrs. Dunwoodie subsumed
everything but the kitchen sink, the Mount Tiara Women’s Club always avoided
asking her to take the deposit to the bank.
“Too bad Mrs. Dunwoodie has no understanding of apollonian pie making,”
Mr. Fenster said at the Labor Day block potluck as he spit out a nasty
unidentifiable glob of pastry. “Savory and sweet should be combined to bring
harmony to the tummy and she definitely did not bring it.”
Barely able to see out from under the old horned helmet,
worn by her Viking ancestors in a time of spoliation and passed down through the
generations, Mrs. Dunwoodie still managed to make quite an impression at the
Mount Tiara Women’s Club Autumn Tea Extravaganza.
(To be continued…)
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