Celery Shtick

She sipped her water furiously and held a stick of celery upright like Hitler used to do with his finger. Her tirade was nearly as impassioned as Hitler’s, but here the metaphor ends because she was Jewish. He couldn’t help thinking about how funny a manifesto for nutty health freaks might be until he remember seeing that in Barnes & Noble the week before. He pushed remnants of bacon around his plate with greasy fingers like the giant bulldozers in strip mines. As the one-sided debate spun out of control, they of course forgot about the quiet air between them.