I just keep hoping I don't run into him, or that, 9 years having passed, he won't recognize me.
All tagged Crazy People
so there's that
And the getting of the cash is taking too long..... so his hooker gets out of the car.
Vocational Nonsense
Yes, I will help you load your truck. No, you cannot make that comment I see you thinking. Ah! You made it anyway. How fun and professional of you.
jameson & carol
A crowd of migrant workers, waiting to be picked up by anyone, stepped closer to the car. He waved them off solemnly. When he asked me if I had a facebook, I said no.
wild life
A few years prior to that, some people had trespassed up there, built a dirtbike track, and planted some, um, alternative crops. This town is pretty rural and there's a lot of open space, so you have to assume a great deal of that goes on.
home is where the plants are
Even today, as I write this, my new plumber just told me the
angels, unawares
As we rather shakily tried to unwind from this nightmare with coffee and breakfast, up rolled a mini-van, and out spilled a little girl who tried to put a spell on us with her fairy wand. It worked.
wine and cheese and olives and shouting
Have I mentioned he was spontaneous? There would be phone calls, and he'd want company or an adventure, and we would go over, and there would be wine and cheese and olives and shouting (he was Albanian! There was lots of shouting, most of it fairly jolly).
"A Man's Drink"
if you think whiskey is a man’s drink, you’re probably hanging out with the wrong kind of women
"I'm not a hillbilly, I'm a hillwilliam"
We're getting close to 1500 people, but there's cows mainly, and in the spring, when the honey-wagon goes by, it gets all over the road and on your tires, and the air is redolent of water, wet dirt, and cow-poop.