North Vs. South

Hey there lunch clubbers, Lynn here! Time for another exciting tale from a non-descript office building in the middlde of an average-sized American city.....

Today's lunch club consisted of a myriad of conversations, causing Jennifer to ask Jorge if he, as President of Lunch Club, prepares and begins the dicussions each day. One of the great things about Lunch Club, however, is how naturally our random conversations begin. Sometimes a particular event or circumstance will lead us into discussion. Other times, we will randomly begin talking about a particular subject matter just because the moment presented itself. One thing is for sure: when participating in lunch club, expect the unexpected. Most of the time, the whole table unifies to discuss something interesting like goat's milk or prenancy. Other times, the table is divided into several different conversations. One end could be in one conversation while the other side is talking about something completely different. The North Vs. the South. Today was one of those days.

The conversation at the North end began with Ryan telling a story in which he prounounced the word "vehicle" with three separate syllables. VE-HI-CLE. Leigh found this endlessly entertaining, leading us into a discussion about accents, and how people from different regions of the country speak differently. Now, although we now all reside in the same average-sized American city, all of our Lunch Club members are from different places around the country, giving us each a unique perspective. Northerners speak one way. Southerners speak another way. Needless to say, we all felt that our own accent was normal, and everyone else's stood out.

Meanwhile, on the South side, Liz was sharing about an exciting musical event she was able to attend with her husband the evening before. Well known artists were present and performed at this function, including Liz's favorite, Garth Brooks. This brought us into a discussion about music, and how easy it would be for Garth Brooks to sell out several statiums in a matter of minutes.

The North side of the table caught bits and pieces of that conversation, and somehow began talking about Kanye West. Leigh very adamently shared her dislike of Kanye, saying that his lyrics are arrogant and that he always acts like everyone owes him something. Ryan mentioned that he agreed, but that he still loved the musical loops of Kanye's songs. Andres and Jorge then began talking about how rap artists just find good loops from other artists, and that's how they build their songs. (Jorge was on the North end, and Andres was on the South end, so this was an interesting cross-table conversation.) We then started talking about how many rap songs have similar tracks and loops, because they do not write unique music for each song. Ryan even brought up the similarities between a certain Vanilla Ice song and a more recent Switchfoot song. Who would have thought...

Lunch Club ended with a unification of the North and South sides when Marie brought in an entertaining email forward about children's perspectives of marriage. As we all passed the email around, the married lunch clubbers started sharing their own advice and perspective on marriage. This led into specific pet-peeves they had with their respective spouses. Apparently Leigh's husband has a strong passion about the toilet seat lid staying down, while Jorge tends to be anal with bathroom cleanliness and Ryan has an unusually extreme disgust for touching dirty dishes. Everyone began sharing how they and their spouse work through those issues, giving Ryan valuable information and insight for his upcoming nuptuals. Hope you were paying attention Ryan. Of course, if all else fails, you can adhere to the advice of a 10 year old child found in Marie's email forward. "Just tell your wife she looks pretty, even if she really looks like a dump truck." Out of the mouths of babes.....

Until next time!

Lynn