Memories....like the corners of my mind. Misty water colored memories. Of the way, we were.

[joshg138]

As I was walking to the subway last week. I noticed somthing sitting on top of a garbage bag (it was garbage night). It was a book. Now, I was hoping it would have some mystical powers that would bring me on an epic adventure to save Fantasia and to save the Childlike Empress. But it was even better than that. It was a wedding album from 1976!!!!!!!!!! Now I've seen bad wedding albums before. I've seen my parent's, my aunt's, and my uncle's. All of them were married in the 1970's. And trust me, it was ugly. To give you an idea of how ugly 70's wedding fashion was, I'll tell you this story. When my amigo Jeff got married last year, I tried to convince his then fiancee that it would be a good idea if the groomsmen would wear tuxedos that matched what our fathers wore at their weddings. When I elaborated to explain that this would necessitate finding myself a brown tuxedo with a ruffled powder blue shirt, she nixed the idea. Anyway, i picked up the book and started looking for relatives. Nope, Uncle Aron was nowhere to be seen. Now that I knew it was safe to mock people, I started to do so. Let me tell you, mocking people in a book while standing on the sidewalk in New York isn't fun. It is just weird. I could deduce by the thick layer of grease covering the book that it had been in an old person's home. No offense, but they just aren't clean. They can't see very well, so they do a shitty job cleaning. I opened the book looking for some gems to scan and post. But the pictures were mounted really well to the cardboard pages. I tried to take one off, but it just ripped the bride's head off. And truth be told, we've all seen wedding albums before and unless you're in them, they are fucking boring. Then it occurred to me that I was holding in my hands the documentation of the happiest day of someone's life. This day was perfect. There were no cares in the world. Their focus was on the love and joy in their heart. And here it was now in the garbage. It was tragic.

Then I realized that I don't know these people and just don't care. So i threw it away.