The Comfy Corner

I often ponder how some phrases get coined and passed through the generations until we have things like "easy as pie" or "cold feet" or to "rub someone the wrong way." Like, these phrases make as much sense as Taylor Swift dating Jake Gyllenhaal (that is to say, not much sense...at all...he's like thirty). But I was recently witness to the coining of a brilliant new phrase that is definitely going to catch on a) because of its simplicity and b) because of its non-sensical nature. It all starts (as so many of my stories do) at the "Gourmet Dumpling House" or as I like to call it "the GDH."

Some cast mates and I decided to go to the GDH after a performance for beer and appetizers and beer. We were actually being the most obnoxious people in the world. We started playing this game where every ten minutes someone tells a ridiculous punch line (my favorite was "and then he said, those aren't horns, they're rocks") and we all burst out in uproarious laughter (alla how every Olive Garden commercial starts). We were just having a great time, but the manager was not so much. So as soon as the last dumpling left the plate, he rushed over with the bill. We all threw in our cash, but it didn't quite add up to what it should have been (as always) so my friend Brittany pulls a dollar out of her wallet slams it on the table and says "Make it a venti!" I thought for a moment that this was some cool, new phrase, but then I realized that it definitely wasn't, so I asked her about it.

Apparently, she had told my friend Anthony that he could just buy her a Starbucks coffee at some point in the future because she paid for his beer, and when she had to throw in another dollar, she just said "make it a venti." So now I know how these crazy phrases get started. Some third party hears something the wrong way, or misinterprets it and the misinterpretation catches fire. So now, every time I have to throw in an extra dollar, I'm gonna say "MAKE IT A VENTI!" (cue uproarious laughter).