this imploding heart

no no you can't sit down you gotta move move move, around and round

I've been doing tons of actual work interspersed with school actual work these days, which is not good news for blogging. I have 10 minutes until I'm supposed to be out of here, so i'm going to take it as it comes around here.

I went to dinner with my mom and dad last night. Mom and dad kindly leant me their '91 Ford Taurus last Monday so that Josh and I could drive down to Olympia and see Jello Biafra talk. And talk he did. I had a good time listening and watching the students, who are not much younger than me, but are living in a totally different world where many of the rules don't apply. (I can't go to evergreen because I think white people dreds look stupid and lazy, and eventually I'd start letting everyone know. Those greeners smell weird.)

This was about the car. I got back to where I'd parked it yesterday and tried to start the damn thing. I could get the key all the way into the ignition but I couldn't get the stupid piece of crap to turn. When I'd parked the car originally, Cake had made me get back in and turn the wheels in the direction of the hill (totally against my will), so I kept pulling on the steering wheel trying to get it to move. It wouldn't budge, but I didn't dare jerk on it because as soon as I do anything not-so-gentle to that car, it's going to explode and my father is going to chase me into the puget sound with an ice auger. I called my mom.

"Mom, don't tell dad yet, but I can't get the key to turn in the ignition."

"Jiggle it!

So I spend 10 minutes jiggling my heart out before I give in and call back.

"Ugh. Dad. I can't get your stupid piece of crap car to start."

"Pull on the steering wheel."

"I did pull on it, no use."

"Really JERK on it."

and of course the piece of crap starts.

"You must be getting old or something, Sonya. You need me to teach you how to drive again?"

"You shut it. You know if I would have jerked without asking the steering wheel would have come off in my hand and you'd be furious."

"Heh heh heh."

Dad's cousin came along to dinner at the favorite Chinese restaurant of Edmonds. They poked fun at me because Bush won the election and I told my dad it was unfortunate that he's gone ignorant in his old age.

Posted by Sonya at December 9, 2004 04:13 PM