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I grew up in a semi. Was potty-trained,

  • I grew up in a semi. Was potty-trained, learned to read, and even how to gamble before I was three. It was a good life. It was a hard life. It was the only life I knew. And the
  • ragtag band of truckers was my family, the only family I'd ever known. By age eleven, I was becoming adept in the tools of the trucking trade. The road was rough & the skills I'd
  • forgotten were much needed. Now I'm 49 and forgot everything I'd learned. I just sort of puff around munching Doritos and drinking Diet Mountain Dew.
  • It's a rather good life, I must say. I sit on the park bench all day watching people, making observations about human nature. I just might write a book one day. I'd title it
  • "My Life on the Bench." I would put a photo of a crack in the sidewalk on the cover. The park bench was where I listened to talk about hurt and wasted dreams. Those stories needed
  • an unexpected plot twist desperately, but there was some good raw material in them that could be mined and forged into something more ambitious. I grew fond of the park bench, even
  • though it left rusty slat marks and occasional pigeon poop on my backside, whether I was wearing pants or not. The day the park bench pigeon poop changed my life, I had sat down
  • wearing no pants. It must have been one of those greyish white pigeon poops with a black flourish at the center judging from the consistency. I slid & fell just as Larry Gagosian
  • rounded the corner, eyes wide in horror. "Larry!" I yelled. "Watch out!" It was too late for Larry, though, for as I fell, I swept Larry's legs out from underneath him and his head
  • Exploded like a pack of gushers at the huge force behind the blow. All the blood that went everywhere made me nauseous, yet I was so stunned, I could hardly breathe, let alone barf
Started
2013-07-11 01:02:18
Finished
2015-02-03 13:18:10

4 Comments

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    PurpleProf Feb 03 2015 @ 13:52

    "A Day In the Life of a Retired Trucker"
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    AndrewB73 Feb 04 2015 @ 11:47

    I love this website.
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    SlimWhitman Feb 04 2015 @ 17:32

    So do I, and welcome AndrewB73! A finely crafted story with a BerryFine start and fitting finish.
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    AndrewB73 Feb 05 2015 @ 09:26

    Hahaha thanks SlimWhitman, and yeah, quite the beginning and end

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