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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • I learned to drive when I was about 16. My parents never had any food in the house, plus two extremely aggressive dobermans in the kitchen, so I couldn’t go in there anyway.

    So sometimes I would sneak out right before MacDs close and eat a burger in the parking lot.

    I’m a lot older now, but occasionally I still eat fast food in the darkness of the Walmart parking lot

    I find it calming for some reason.

    Bonus hilarity:

    At Xmas in 1979 I had an Xmas tree lot with a slave driver boss – 12 to 18 hours a day. (He did partially pay me with a shopping bag full of wed.)

    On night I got off around midnight and headed off to the local Mcds, order my food, and visit the restroom to take a piss – and somehow managed to drop my car keys in the piss water.

    Not my favorite day ever.

    Then I get home and find that they had released the dogs in the whole house and I had to yell and pound on the door to get my mother to lock them up.

    FML



  • JFC Poltergeist.

    I saw it on a VCR in 1983, the year after it came out. I had spent the morning in a grammar exam for a Latin intensive program and then on to the funeral of a fellow speed freak.

    Then I partied with some friends after the funeral until about midnight. Weed and beer. No hallucinogens.

    So I told a shortcut through this sort of underpass that went under the church and saved me a block.

    First thing I see is a passed out dude in a polka dot costume, just like the monster in the movie.

    As if that wasn’t enough, he’s next to a shopping cart full of body parts. I’m sure it was just some . mannequin parts he got from some clothing store on Telegraph Avenue.

    But some kind of warning bell went off in my head: just keep walking. The memory is still vivid many years later.

    The “just keep walking” thing has kept me out of a lot of shit in life.

    And yeah, I haven’t had speed in several decades .