a good day
today, I finally got my driver's license, and I voted before dawn... and i meant it, harder than I've ever voted for anything. Me and the weather were both misty all day.
Lot's of close calls... primarily, the car wouldnt start. I tried to turn it over 14 times. I really was ready to cry and give up when i glanced up at my brother watching with agony... he scrunched his eyes shut tightly and gesticulated majestically towards the car, in a tai-chi S.O.S of sorts. His golden heart screamed so loudly the gods indeed obliged him, and the engine vroomed. He smiled, wiggled his fingers, and threw it back to me with a hokey cowboy two-pistol quickdraw pantomime.
I tried to clear my mind, and muttered my thanks.
"Great shot, kid... one in a million."
The instructor barely allowed me to continue the test.
But, after 4 tries, and 6 years... I did it.
The picture is doofy, but that was a bargain I laid on the table while silently negotiating to my lifelong pal Poseidon. I told him he could make the photo as ass as he wanted if the car would just start, and he sure took me up on that, but still, I was happy to oblige him since he let me have this one small thing. So many random happenings like that had kept me from it for so many years... i felt myself losing my mind on the 13th attempt. I'm really glad I didn't have to.
Lot's of close calls... primarily, the car wouldnt start. I tried to turn it over 14 times. I really was ready to cry and give up when i glanced up at my brother watching with agony... he scrunched his eyes shut tightly and gesticulated majestically towards the car, in a tai-chi S.O.S of sorts. His golden heart screamed so loudly the gods indeed obliged him, and the engine vroomed. He smiled, wiggled his fingers, and threw it back to me with a hokey cowboy two-pistol quickdraw pantomime.
I tried to clear my mind, and muttered my thanks.
"Great shot, kid... one in a million."
The instructor barely allowed me to continue the test.
But, after 4 tries, and 6 years... I did it.
The picture is doofy, but that was a bargain I laid on the table while silently negotiating to my lifelong pal Poseidon. I told him he could make the photo as ass as he wanted if the car would just start, and he sure took me up on that, but still, I was happy to oblige him since he let me have this one small thing. So many random happenings like that had kept me from it for so many years... i felt myself losing my mind on the 13th attempt. I'm really glad I didn't have to.