'So how was your vacation?' 'Oh, and there's this great HBO service online...'... " she said, imitating the call.
Finally, the woman, who was bouncing a baby on her hip, screamed out for all of us to hear, "For the last time, you are not going to play golf on our vacation!" "Oh, yes I am!" he responded heatedly.
The term "silly season," in Washington, usually refers to the August congressional vacation... oh, excuse me, "district work period".
"I said, 'Oh, where have you been?' And he said, 'Oh, vacation.' But I knew he went to Afghanistan because his little brother said it".
There is the heartache in some soul songs that feels whimsical and almost painless (Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" feels like the last day of school before summer vacation; The Chi-Lites' "Oh Girl" is like floating around the lazy river at Disneyworld), and then there is the cold reality of need and want and not being able to do a damn thing about it.
We came home from our oh-so-chic vacation exhausted, and worried about melanomas and credit card bills.
Is it cheating to write a "grab bag" column in the middle of July, when you're days away from vacation, and you're tired, oh-so-tired of waiting for the Bancroft family to make up its mind about Rupert Murdoch's bid for Dow Jones?
"You come back from vacation like, la-di-dah — oh, O.K.," she said.
On occasion, he said, "a girl I'm friends with posts pictures of herself at a party or on vacation, and I'll think, 'Oh, she looks super cool right now.' Those screenshots become part of my visual library".
In one commercial, the driver asks his passengers, two men and a woman who have returned from a vacation in Cabo San Lucas, "Oh, and did you guys feel like safe and everything down there?" One man replies, "Oh yeah," adding, "We almost didn't go".
