Remember that old gag where you tell someone you saw a henway and they say What? and you say well there was this henway on my ride to work and they say What! and you say it was a real interesting henway, one of the biggest I've ever seen and they say What are you talking about! and you say a henway, goddammit, I'm talking about the henway I saw and the whole thing is to try to get them to say: what's a henway? and then you can triumphantly exclaim What's a hen weigh? Oh 'bout five pounds or so. Ha! You don't remember that one? well you must come from a different part of town than me. Anyway the thing is we were perambulating down the street the other day my honey and me and we saw a guy riding one of those magic balancing scooters and I got real excited and started jumping around and hollered at the guy, "Henway! Henway!" because I'd never seen one before and the guy gave me this strange frozen grimace and went zooming away like a vertical waterbug and then my honey said What are you talking about, what's a henway? and then we both laughed and laughed like a couple of idiots. previous - next