Thanks, guys, for your comments on this crazy little thing, even though I'm sure many of the lines went right over a lot of people's heads.
El, I'm so glad you liked it!
A brief explanation for those of you kind enough to comment:
'Pronto' is what El says when she answers the phone (it's the Italian way), and she gets a
lot of calls on her cellphone.
When Elena visited Canada recently, we all watched Finding Nemo. The whale-speak had a rather... strange effect on her.
Put it this way, it was a good twenty minutes before anyone could get any sensible conversation out of her after that!
She does prefer her coffee near-cold.
Much of her free time when in Canada was spent beating my husband at table-tennis (ping-pong). Talk about competitive!
Oh, and one line which I should have worked into the story somehow, but didn't think of it in time, El, is
"I ate too much." Hope you had a wonderful birthday, you evil mastermind, you!
Wendy