This is the day I thought we were going to
-
This is the day I thought we were going to go on holidays but for some reason things changed. What do I do now? I didn't plan to be back at work so quickly. How do I tell the boss
4 -
that if I go on vacation to the same town I live and work in, it still counts as vacation? Perhaps I shouldn't have chosen to spend my vacation at the same exact place where I work
6 -
but I was agoraphobic and even going to trim my garden hedge was an intense event. I called my doctor to ask if she could join me on my holiday but she said that my
6 -
holidays were over, apparently I was dying in three days. She admonished to complete my bucket list. I actually had a ton of things to do, but I was agoraphobic.
4 -
My last foray had ended badly when I broke down due to crippling indecision over whether to get long lasting odor control or instant relief from odors. Why God Why! I had 3 days to
5 -
myself with no to-do list, and I spent one of them in a shampoo aisle until kind people escorted me out. By then I was hungry, but the place I went to had a 5-fold menu! Overchoice
5 -
. I yearned for the days back in communist Czechoslovakia, when choice was unheard of. Choice was bourgeois crap. Beer was subsidised and we were drunk a
5 -
good bit of the time, hence my Czech-ered past. But those days were long gone, although I am still drunk (hiccup) a lot. I came to the US through Ellis Island in 1922, bringing my
6 -
American Dreams and polio. Didn't I bring my family too? They must have fallen out of the boat in the Atlantic somewhere. I couldn't check them off my inventory list, but liquor
5 -
was a worthwhile substitute. Here's my new family: my wife Bacardi Black, my grandfather Antiquity, my son Jack Daniel, his cousin Pabst. They love me, they keep me happy.
6
- Started
- 2012-09-13 00:31:55
- Finished
- 2013-05-29 00:23:08
9 Comments
Want to leave a comment?
Sign up!
PurpleProf May 29 2013 @ 00:28
A life of quiet desperation... I sorta know a few people like this.
49erFaithful May 29 2013 @ 13:52
My fold inspired by shopping for cat litter. Seriously, you've got your instant relief from odors, your long-lasting odor control, OR relief from multiple odors. And you've got to choose between them. Why God why!
inatick May 29 2013 @ 20:29
Can you buy all three and mix them to create the ultimate cat litter?
49erFaithful May 29 2013 @ 23:44
That is solid thinking inatick, solid thinking indeed. It'd be a lot of cat litter to store, but if my cat wouldn't have gone to the great litterbox in the sky I might've just put that plan into action.
inatick May 30 2013 @ 13:03
Does North America have giant sky litter boxes?
49erFaithful May 30 2013 @ 13:09
Hard to tell when people are kidding, but "the great ____ in the sky" is a euphemism for heaven. My cat went to heaven. Or, more likely, his body is decomposed and his energy is dispersed.
lucielucie May 30 2013 @ 16:57
I always stop buying cat litter when my cat dies. I just don't have the storage space. I think people have bigger houses in America, inatick, with dedicated cat litter rooms. That's why their litter boxes are so enormous.
49erFaithful May 30 2013 @ 17:03
Lol. You can't be too careful lucie. I saved a bundle when bulk dog food went on sale 6 months after my dog died. The 5th bedroom is stocked full just in case.
inatick May 30 2013 @ 21:39
I started to think of religious cats living in monasteries creating illuminated manuscripts about the Ultimate Kitty Litter Mix in the sky. Houses in Australia are just about as big as American houses but we don't have dedicated Kitty Litter or Dog Food rooms. We do however keep kangaroos in our garages so we can ride about in their pouches.