Anna Banana
...e reading our fortunes from our fortune cookies. Any one who can carry on an interesting conversation through appetizers, the main meal and desert with only having, “oh,” “no way,” and “mm hum” said back is a genius in my book. Anna’s babbling rampages do not always end with me feeling like she’s a genius though. This past summer when she had to deal with guy dilemmas she would go shopping to try to get her mind off of things but end up calling me while picking through the racks. She would talk for an hour, get even more upset, hang up and then call back. This caused me to change my cell phone plan so that I would not have to deal with over the limit charges any more. Anna likes to come up with clever ways to get people to react to her. “Tiger Woods!!!” is how she likes to address people. You could be the bag boy at the super market or the old man holding the door open for her at the movie theater and she would say to you as she leaves, “Thanks Tiger Woods!” This usually causes people to react with a contorted facial expression as if to say, “ Did I hear her right?” or “Did she just call me Tiger Woods?” Not to long ago she worked at an old folk’s home as a waitress. Some of the old folks would question her about her personal life, such as whom she was dating. She would look around the room for the nearest bus boy and tell them she was his fiancée. It took the old folks a while to figure out she really wasn’t dating every bus boy but rather she was just pulling their leg. Anna has an amazing imagination and a convincing face. She likes to tell stories and see how far she can go and still keep you hanging on to every word. This past December she was diagnosed with cancer on her arm and had surgery. The surgery also involved a skin graph from her leg so she limped for a few weeks. When people asked what had happened she would tell them she went snow boarding and fell of a cliff while trying to save a small boy; Or she saved an old lady by pushing her out of the way of on coming traffic and ended up getting hit ...