January 26th, 2013 - Talk in cliches all day

Yesterday, I grabbed the bull by its horns and attempted a quest: talk in cliches all day.

It was no walk in the park, as I quickly realized that to get the ball rolling, I wouldn't be able to speak ONLY in cliches.  To do that would drive Elizabeth up the wall, and would put me between a rock and a hard place to get anything done.  So, to stay ahead of the game, I tried to use a cliche at least once in a conversation, often times more.  Once the cat was out of the bag, people got into it, making this the most participatory of all the new things that I've tried for this blog.

Elizabeth's Jimmy has been on it's last legs for awhile now.  Not wanting to throw good money after bad, we decided to check out a couple of places.  The first dealership was as sleazy as they come, and it definitely did not cut the mustard.  The salesman actually said "What do I have to do to get you into one of these cars today?" which was as cliche as they come. And he didn't even know that was the day's new thing!

We didn't want to listen to the doom merchants, so we kept our chins up and tried to look on the bright side.  We took a hop, skip, and a jump across the street to CarMax to get the low down on what they had to offer. It's a dog eat dog world out there, and we weren't expecting much.   To say that place was the bee's knees is an understatement.  Cathy, our sales consultant, had a heart of gold and in a pinch, she did the trick.  In a jiffy, we walked away with a new car for Elizabeth, and that's nothing to shake a stick at.

To celebrate this windfall, we went to some local watering holes last night.  Some friends from college that now live in North Carolina came out with us, and it was the best thing since sliced bread to see them.  Unfortunately, neither Elizabeth nor myself knows what hit us last night.  Oh well, that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.

Speaking in cliches all day made me really think about what I was saying, so there was a silver lining to sounding like an idiot.  If you stop to smell the roses, you begin to see how many of these little idioms you use on a daily basis wihtout realizing it.  Talk about getting caught napping with your pants down! It was fun to work a new cliche in that I hadn't used yet, and I'm sure I only scratched the surface of what I could have said.  You win some, you lose some.

See you in two shakes of a lambs tail!