Chinese Gossip

I had lunch today at the local Chinese buffet. It was great. Do you know what b.u.f.f.e.t. stands for? Big Ugly Fat Folks Eating Together. OK! Bad joke, but it does have some truth to it. Just take a look around the next time you're at a buffet.... Anyway, I loaded my plate with my personal favorite combination of Pepper Chicken and General Tso chicken, imitation crab meat wrapped in imitation bacon, Lo Mein (chinese spagetti) and (my personal favoirte) crab rangoon. I just love crab rangoon.

So, there I am eating my eastern delights and a group of people from above the Mason Dixon Line gradually take over the large table located in close proximity to me. I couldn't help but overhear their conversation because they were obviously excited to be there and to see one another and they were clearly celebrating someone's recent marriage. There were a few times they got real quiet and I couldn't tell if they were speaking English or Yankee, but in the interest of preserving their privacy I wouldn't be able to share those parts of the conversation even if I had understood them. Of course, you understand?!

Well, what caught me ear was the discussion about the honeymoon. The question was, "How was your honeymoon? Do you feel different?" The response was, "We've been together for eight years. Joe (the names have been changed to protect the guilty or innocent) said, 'It might have felt different seven years ago, but this is just another day.'" Their conversation went on and they laughed and talked. The dynamic of the group was two younger ladies and two or three older ladies and one older man. I'm not sure what their relationship(s) were and I'm not sure what their spiritual convictions are. What I am sure of is that no one seemed to think anything wrong about the fact that the couple in question had "been together" for eight years and that the honeymoon was "just another day". I guess I kept waiting on someone to say, "You know, missy, it would have been different if you guys had waited to "be together" until after you were married!" That never happened.

I walked away from my usually enjoyable feast of rangoon with a bit of a disillusioned feeling. Have we progressed so far that no one sees anything sacred about marriage or keeping yourself for marriage? Have we become so culturally relevant that we can hear about massive numbers of homosexuals scramble to California in order to have their "marriage" recognized? I wonder about us sometimes..... Of course, I guess my "overhearing" of their gossip and then sharing it on a blog wasn't much different than the couple "being together" before they were supposed to be together. I guess next time I'll just stick to the rangoon and leave the rest alone!