Monday, November 06, 2006

Pots and Pans, Now Clap Your Hands

At 10pm I was minding my own business, furiously procrastinating at the dining room table (multitasking thanks to computers makes you LESS productive, not more) when I heard the sound of a lone pot being brutally beaten outside. I thought it was someone just trying to toss some old leftovers out, but then it was joined by a second, then a third...

Soon the whole neighborhood was a caucophony of pots and pans. I went out on the balcony, but it was hard to see the individual pot strikers. Many of them seemed to be from my own building, and others from buildings across the street. One by one, other neighbors joined in before I too decided I'd better grab something to hit.

I bypassed the decorative plate (too fragile) in our living room and also Atsh (too Japanese) and finally picked up a pan in the kitchen and proceeded to add to the ruckus from the balcony. How fun! Why are we doing this? I don't know! But it suddenly made all the fancy things I was doing on the computer seem unbelievably lame. We should do that every Monday night.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hope you'll soon discover the pot bangings' inner meaning and let us all in on the secret.

Catalonic said...

It's been my experience that people in Barcelona don't need any formal excuse to bang a pot, or smoke it for that matter.
Damn Hippies.

George said...

In naples they do it to alert drug dealers that the police is coming. Noelle, now u are part of the crime!

Anonymous said...

Normally in Latin America that is done as a mean of protest against the government.