It’s Not Your Fault
When it’s OK to skip the nap
These days, when the SLF is stopped on the street and recognized as the SLF to a prolific contributing writer to a world famous napping blog,1 the first question she gets is, “Do those guys nap when they hang out?” The answer, of course, is, “they try.”
Thanks to Evan-and-Matt’s-bold-idea,2 we did indeed have a mini-Buffett group hang out. Three-of-the-four-attendees-were-also-founding-members of TND,3 so naturally there was some4 discussion of napping, the blog, our FGF contributors and more nap adjacent topics.
We were thrilled to take the conversation out of the chat room and into “Real Life,” as the kids say.5 We aren’t one trick ponies tho — no ma’am.6 Buffett, hiking, funemployment, delicious food and all the other substantive topics our group discusses made their appearance. The problem for outsiders is that it’s hard to make much sense of the conversation.
Many people7 often intertwine their native language and English into a melting-pot-of-words-and-sentences that wouldn’t make much sense to other listeners when spoken rapidly and without context.8 In our case, it’d be hard to know where the base content of the sentence met up with a random movie line, followed by an old joke, interrupted by hearty laughter, followed by a noise, eye raise or a hand gesture. It makes perfect sense to us, but boy if I was sitting in that circle watching, I might find us 30% enthralling, 40% farm animals, 60% annoying and 18% even more annoying.
And this is why despite the “want” for a nap — possibly even the “need” — we never made it to one. On a day that all 3 TND and TAENR members met up, drank in the sun, scooted, cared for various kids, paid some fleeting attention to wives and SLFs, and stayed dry in the rain at the Seagrape, the most time spent was laughing at big belly laughs all the different highly important and substantive topics we discussed. The nap got the shaft. Oh well — life happens. But I laughed to beat the band.9
Hey Peter King…pulse check. Matt wants his answer. Pre-season can wait.
Matt said that if you use hyphens you can count it as one word. I don’t make the rules but I know that when I’m 94 words over, I’ll use any legal cheat code the word police proffer. Thanks Matt!
And the fourth one destined to be a FGF writer. Come on, Shades. Don’t be Peter King. Be Barry McBride.
A lot of.
When the Rebbetzin (Evan’s wife Jenny) asked if we ever talk about things of substance in our various chats, we asked “besides napping?”
As the great Al Bundy would say.
Mainly for whom English is not their native language.
Think “Spanglish” and I don’t mean the riveting 2004 movie starring Adam Sandler and Téa Leoni.
Matt is on vacation and isn’t the word police today. Evan is. We took the opportunity to go way, way, way over. Happy Napping Matt!