A Celebrity Donation. For Real! Sorta. (Okay, Not Really).
September 7th, 2007
Sweet Emotion, indeed.
Okay, so. A wave of CraigsList e-mails came in this week. Exciting enough, yes? Yes! Well, there was one in particular that caused its own hot stir. It came on Tuesday, in response to our ad for a donated espresso machine. It stood out for its impatience. Testyness, even.
do you still have the machine? i want it asap…please call me at 212
xxx-xxxx. ask for xxx or xxx. (it is in a very busy office)
thanks…please call ASAP!
I dig the double-ASAP usage. Anyhow, it was all very curious to me. What kind of espresso crisis is being had in Manhattan right at this very moment, I wondered? So my sister, Donna, who has the machine at her apartment in New York, calls the number (ASAP, natch). She leaves a message with someone at the afforementioned noisy, busy office. Not long after, she gets a call back from a woman named Rainbow.
“Rainbow?” Donna asks.
“Yes, Rainbow,” she says. She wants the espresso machine, she explains, and needs it fast. Rainbow proceeds to ask all kinds of questions that Donna, she of decaffeination, doesn’t know. Double-shot? Umm…she checks the box and gives Rainbow all the details.
She’ll take it, she says. She’ll send someone to pick it up.
And so an official-looking truck pulled up outside Donna’s apartment. A man dressed in an orange Crew shirt and PA headset explained he works with a production company handling the Fashion Rocks concert.
Apparently the caffeine crisis was thus: Early that morning a manager-type person for Aerosmith, performing in the concert, called the crew to go over some details. “There’s going to be an espresso machine in their dressing room, right?”
Uhhhhh…..
So they had to make it happen. And our little espresso machine (donated by Malgosia and Miron!) made it happen. That means Steven Tyler’s mouth touched a cup filled with espresso made by a machine donated to me. So basically, I kissed Steven Tyler’s famous big lips.
I wish I could watch (it’s on right now) to see if he looks all hopped up on caffeine. But I don’t have TV in my new place yet. Boo.
Anyhow. I’m adding Aerosmith to my Thank You list. Kinda like getting an honorary college degree. They didn’t really do anything, besides demand espresso in their dressing room. And for that, I’m grateful by fifty bucks.
