The union impasse meeting droned on and on and on.
But after the brilliant and funny and engaging in-your-face-liars speech by union lawyer extraordinaire Mark Richards, the second best moment for Ladra was when Commissioner Barbara Jordan brought up one of my guilty pleasures: The ABC show Scandal, which is, of course, about political intrigue, but at the national level.
“Do you watch Scandal,” she asked the crowd or her colleagues, when they were discussing some part of the solid waste workers’ contract.
I was in the middle of a call and drinking my 3:05 cafecito (on Cuban time, okay?) when she caught my attention and I dropped my phone (better than than the coffee). This is one of Ladra’s favorite shows, after House of Cards, which is only available on Netflix anyway. I mean, I want to be Olivia Pope when I grow up! Well, except for that sleeping with the president thing. I’ve even started to accumulate my own group of gladiators.
“On Scandal, Huck says that when you murder someone, you do it on Thursday or trash day so you can chop the body parts up and put it out in the trash,” she said, and it is kinda creepy that she remembers that scene specifically where Pope’s maton explains the best day of the week to kill someone is on garbage day.
It elicited quite few awkward laughs.
Just wait for her “body parts” quote to be maligned in the media like that “body bags” quote was.
But I digress. The point was, Jordan explained, that solid waste workers are in danger of coming in contact with body parts any day!
“They don’t know what they are picking up,” she said.
Later in the show — er, I mean meeting — Commission Vice Chair Lynda Bell brought the reference up again when she said she would rather bend with the PBA than the solid waste workers’ union.
“Body parts don’t shoot,” Bell said.
But that was after Jordan took a moment to plug the upcoming season of Scandal, which had close to 10 million viewers for it’s last season finale. It also ranked the most social series with 571,353 tweets during the finale.
“By the way, Scandal comes back in September. You better all watch it. And it’s available on DVD.”
Actually, Commissioner, it’s Oct. 3. I have a big circle on it in my calendar.
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