Day 5: Thursday June 5
Write a scene where the only spoken dialogue is “Uh-hum,” “Umm,” ‘Urrr,” and “Mm-mmm.”
You cannot imagine how excited I was when I found out Monica was coming to town to visit with her new baby. I had never seen this little bundle of joy and was very excited! I really wanted to see what my crazy college friend Monica, had been doing since the birth of Sylvia, 6 months ago. None of us were shocked that she met her boyfriend in Vegas, but Monica, with a baby. My first thought went to that scene from the movie Sweet Home Alabama, where the lead character meets an old friend and says, “You have a baby. In a bar!”
Monica and Sylvia were going to stay with Lincoln, another close friend from college. Upon arrival at Lincoln’s house you could not imagine how excited I was to first see Monica and then the baby. Monica and Lincoln were making lunch in the kitchen and the baby was sleeping in a car seat by the table. As soon as I walked into the kitchen of Lincoln’s house I was greeted with waves and points. “Uh-hum”, they both mouthed and put their finger over their mouths to indicate the universal quiet signal. I walked over to the island, put my bags down, and gave them both quiet hugs. Then Monica pointed to her baby. “Mm-mmm,” she said, and her body language pointed to the sleeping Sylvia.
I slowly made my way across the kitchen and looked down to see Sylvia for the first time. “Umm,” I said. I had to look more closely.
“Urrr,” I hummed and turned around to simile at Monica and gave her thumbs up. “Mm-mm,” I whimpered.
“Uh-hum," is what she said back.
I could not believe my eyes! This was quite possibly, the ugliest baby I had ever seen. Actually, some babies look like aliens when they are born and then they get cute as they get older. No, this child would scare Chucky! I was frozen, and thank goodness I couldn’t say anything because I had no clue what to say. I was paralyzed, frozen, speechless, thank goodness Sylvia was taking a nap and Monica wouldn’t let me talk. I might have accidentally blurted out, “Wow, I think that baby hit every branch on it’s way down the ugly tree.” Or “Is this child related to Golem?”
Instead of saying anything I ran to the bathroom hand over my mouth for dramatic effect. After making a plan and practicing it repeatedly I came out of the bathroom, rubbed my stomach, frowned, and said, "Urr.”
Monica and Lincoln nodded in understanding and said, “Uh-mm, and Umm.”
I held up my keys, grabbed my bags off the counter, and waved goodbye. I made it to the door and put up my hand to my ear and mouth to make the phone symbol for “call me later.” As soon a I got to my car I started it immediately, let out a big sigh with a “Hu-mmm,” got out of the driveway as fast as possible and raced down the road towards home.
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Freaking hilarious!!
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