Today I had a strong craving for ice cream. Vanilla soft serve in a cone, to be precise. I was telling this to two co-worker friends, and one of them pulled up Google maps to see where the closest Dairy Queen was. Unfortunately the one nearby had closed. The best he could do was Wendy's. Since he hadn't eaten lunch yet, he offered to drive me over there. He even sprung for my medium chocolate frosty. It wasn't what I had been craving, but it satisfied. It tasted like my childhood; like I was eating nostalgia by the spoonful.
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- [es-pree de less-ka/-iay] (idiom) A witty remark that occurs to you too late, literally on the way down the stairs. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations defines esprit de l'escalier as, "An untranslatable phrase, the meaning of which is that one only thinks on one's way downstairs of the smart retort one might have made in the drawing room."
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