FLANK STEAK MY ASS
Jul 10
FLANK STEAK MY ASS
A middle aged couple gets in my cab
at the cheapo hotel.
They want me to take them to a restaurant.
“Make it someplace good,” the man says.
I take them to El Corral.
Later they call for a ride back
to the hotel.
Let me ask you something, the man
says to me.
What is the signature steak in
Arizona?
I might have to think about that one
I say.
I’m from South Carolina, he says,
and the rib-eye is
our signature steak.
His woman nods in agreement.
We had a rib-eye back at that restaurant
he says
and it was not near
as good as the rib-eyes back home.
I’m not sure we have
a signature steak, I say,
we just like all kinds around here, I guess.
That’s weird, he says,
every place has a signature steak, I hope
it’s not rib-eye
because that was not a very
good rib-eye back there.
Maybe flank steak? I say,
the Mexicans use a lot of flank steak for
carne asada and that’s
a local popular dish.
Flank steak? he says,
Flank steak for your signature steak?
Well, I say, I’m not an
expert.
Hear that Hon? he says.
Flank steak!
Flank steak my ass!
At the hotel I drop them
at the door
with 101 branded on it
and he follows his wife’s
chuckling haunches inside, shaking
his head at my stupidity.
Jul 10, 2010 @ 17:55:50
I love this
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Jul 12, 2010 @ 12:11:00
Thanks Nathan but a comment like that really doesn’t mean anything unless it has a quantifiable number attached to it. This is Wessington’s blog anyway, so unless I get the thumbs up from him, I’m in the doldrums.
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Jul 12, 2010 @ 16:22:16
I think this would work very well as a short story. I’d like to see more of the goofy passengers. I imagine the man having big white denture looking teeth, smiling in the review mirror, leaning up over the seat almost speaking in your ear.
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July 12th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
@The Humanist, Humanist, you almost have the makings of a human being: +25
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Jul 12, 2010 @ 16:49:58
The old guy would be one of those people who have to continuously slap you on the shoulder when they speak. I like that even though I don’t know your rules, I am playing by them
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July 12th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
@The Humanist, There’s only one problem with what you’re saying, The Humanist. You are generalizing, using composites of some sort of “interesting” person you might have imagined or heard of. My poem was about a specific instance, a specific couple of people, and a specific set of actions, that was, I thought, funny. I have no rules, except to write from real life, with the boring parts taken out.
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Jul 12, 2010 @ 17:37:18
Gotcha
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