You Can't Take Them Anywhere
Monday, March 20, 2006
Background Noise: Don't Panic
Random Thought: Quality over quantity, always
Mood:Monday--you get the picture
CHICAGO, IL AP: Testimony resumed today in the murder trial of Barbara Peters, charged with the deaths of Betsy Marmol and Autumn Hurst. An eye-witness account was provided by Julie, a waitress at Carmines, who served the three on March 14th at 7 pm. In a sworn statement she described how the women were chatting about The Libertine, a movie they had just seen. She spoke in depth about eavedropping on their conversation, since they were seated near the host station. Appearantly, Ms. Peters had to spend the greater part of the appetizer course explaining the movie and the time period--including that it was in fact accurate to have lots of dogs around, since they are indeed called King Charles spaniels. She also overheard the victims complaining about what they hadn't gotten to do because they had to get back to River North by 4:30 to meet Ms. Peters. Julie stated that she observed the trio for the better part of 2 hours and was keen to point out that Ms. Hurst and Ms. Marmol consistently put their elbows on the table, used their fingers to eat, and in fact resorted to quoting the Sopranos during dessert. In her words, Ms. Peters "seemed the classier of the bunch" due to such intangibles as wine selection, manners, and etiquette. Julie ended her statement with the fact that it was at Ms. Peters insistence that she recieved a decent tip, and that she heard from the bathroom attendent that the victims "acted like high-schoolers in the restroom."
Mr. Flynn used the remainder of the court time to examine the night of Wednesday the 15th. In questioning, Ms. Peters explained that that night had previously been set aside to go out for fondue, something she'd been looking forward to doing and that she could not do alone. It had been her impression that her guests were also excited by this prospect, until she returned home that evening aroung 5. [excerpt taken from testimony]
"...When I arrived home no one was there, so I enjoyed a good 10 minutes of Jeopardy without them. When they got home, they asked me where I'd been and proceeded to tell me about their adventures to Wrigly Field and that Natalie said that she didn't want to go to fondue because it was too expensive. Ms. Hurst's suggestion was that they go eat Mexican down by where Natalie lives [35th-Sox, 30-45 minutes from Ms. Peters' home] because she'd heard that there was really good Mexican food there. When Natalie said that that wasn't true, they then decided to eat at an Italian restaurant by Natalie's school and that Natalie would pick them up from the subway stop and drive them to it. I took the opportunity to point out that if they were travelling all that way, I wouldn't be able to go becuase I's be out later than I would like since I had to go to work the next day. I knew they'd be running late--they didn't even leave my place until nearly 7 pm, and got back around midnight. I enjoyed my evening at home--I had Carmines leftover mushroom risotto and tiaramisu and watched Veronica Mars and Bones. It was great..."
***In related news, "Natalie says" has been voted the most annoying phrase of 2006***
Random Thought: Quality over quantity, always
Mood:Monday--you get the picture
CHICAGO, IL AP: Testimony resumed today in the murder trial of Barbara Peters, charged with the deaths of Betsy Marmol and Autumn Hurst. An eye-witness account was provided by Julie, a waitress at Carmines, who served the three on March 14th at 7 pm. In a sworn statement she described how the women were chatting about The Libertine, a movie they had just seen. She spoke in depth about eavedropping on their conversation, since they were seated near the host station. Appearantly, Ms. Peters had to spend the greater part of the appetizer course explaining the movie and the time period--including that it was in fact accurate to have lots of dogs around, since they are indeed called King Charles spaniels. She also overheard the victims complaining about what they hadn't gotten to do because they had to get back to River North by 4:30 to meet Ms. Peters. Julie stated that she observed the trio for the better part of 2 hours and was keen to point out that Ms. Hurst and Ms. Marmol consistently put their elbows on the table, used their fingers to eat, and in fact resorted to quoting the Sopranos during dessert. In her words, Ms. Peters "seemed the classier of the bunch" due to such intangibles as wine selection, manners, and etiquette. Julie ended her statement with the fact that it was at Ms. Peters insistence that she recieved a decent tip, and that she heard from the bathroom attendent that the victims "acted like high-schoolers in the restroom."
Mr. Flynn used the remainder of the court time to examine the night of Wednesday the 15th. In questioning, Ms. Peters explained that that night had previously been set aside to go out for fondue, something she'd been looking forward to doing and that she could not do alone. It had been her impression that her guests were also excited by this prospect, until she returned home that evening aroung 5. [excerpt taken from testimony]
"...When I arrived home no one was there, so I enjoyed a good 10 minutes of Jeopardy without them. When they got home, they asked me where I'd been and proceeded to tell me about their adventures to Wrigly Field and that Natalie said that she didn't want to go to fondue because it was too expensive. Ms. Hurst's suggestion was that they go eat Mexican down by where Natalie lives [35th-Sox, 30-45 minutes from Ms. Peters' home] because she'd heard that there was really good Mexican food there. When Natalie said that that wasn't true, they then decided to eat at an Italian restaurant by Natalie's school and that Natalie would pick them up from the subway stop and drive them to it. I took the opportunity to point out that if they were travelling all that way, I wouldn't be able to go becuase I's be out later than I would like since I had to go to work the next day. I knew they'd be running late--they didn't even leave my place until nearly 7 pm, and got back around midnight. I enjoyed my evening at home--I had Carmines leftover mushroom risotto and tiaramisu and watched Veronica Mars and Bones. It was great..."
***In related news, "Natalie says" has been voted the most annoying phrase of 2006***
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