Thursday, November 01, 2001
|5:30 PM|
Charon Doesn't Make Change
Pale skinny fingers dropped soda-gooey quarters into the sausage and ham hands of the gas station woman. $1.70, with the two dimes pulled from a seat cushion was the total. This tiny sum purchased enough gasoline for the fuel light to turn off for a mere mile. I now do not know how I will get to work. I really should not have been able to get home on this gas tank. And the paycheck was again missing from my mailbox. I can kite a check, but a car doesn't take crap from anybody, certainly not someone who had to scrape old food wrappers off the change that got him to work.
I thought this lamprey like life of no paycheck would end today. I guess they fouled up my check again. Another day, another couple tiny loans, a few dollars here and there, to get me through. I don't have enough gas to go get my drugs, nor enough gas to get to work tommorow safely. I'll still roll those dice at 8am tommorow.
The happier side of today was on the ride home, I was stuck at an intersection. Nearby was a cluster of tall grassy weeds, and among them was a flock of birds. They were finches, I think, and they were looking for a place to land. They would settle their feet onto a plant, and these plants were not strong enough to hold up even the tiny weight of their bird bodies. However, the time it took the plant to bend was not so short that the bird would fly off and find something else to land on until it hit the ground. So the flock of birds was continually in motion, flit over to a plant, rest, descend slowly, hit the ground and take off only to land on a similar plant. This process lasted the entire time I was at the light and I found myself laughing uproariously. The idea had gotten stuck in my head that these birds were enjoying the most primitive of carnival rides. These plants were grass ferris wheels for birds, sadly lacking the "up".
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//That should close up the previous year.
///Say this is the swap from 2001 to 2002, that should close up the 2001 links.
///Problem is, we also need to close up the final month links too.
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