Hurrah.
Well shit. (who starts a post like THAT? hm!)
I do want to note that I appreciate that you all enjoyed your accolades. Spelling?
I guess this will be the last before I head to the sunny shores. Much as I planned not too, I have more clothing packed than remotely necessary. I am even, before leaving, know that I packed shit I have no intention of ever wearing, that is how greedy I am about being separated from my belongings.
I once had a, I guess you would call it a toy, odd toy, but I guess it was a toy and when I saw it I went full on freak out until it was mine. You know how kids can lose their fucking minds, then are told ok fine, and the tears instantly dry up in a way that makes you want to slap them for the fake tantrum, and yet they'd won and stare at you with the "I own you" expression in their eyes?
This thing was a coffin, and on the top it said you can't take it with you. It was a piggy bank. Being very young I thought it was very confused, and that I would take it with me. When you set a coin on the top of the coffin, a skeleton hand would appear and slide the coin in. So to me, he was taking shit with HIM... why couldn't I.
The concept of what that meant of course was well beyond my scope. Take what? Where?
I wonder often what ever happened to shit I used to own. This is why I was caught rummaging through my old room not long ago. Reference older entries. Honestly, where does our shit go? I have my pound puppy Princeton, and a couple of books, short of that all my shit from younger times is gone. And I'm talking about shit I would have never given away or parted with. I part with nothing.
I can see myself at a garage sale.... which I'd never do because of the lack of ability to part with shit.... but I can see it...
"How much?"
"It's marked."
"5 dollars? For a salt shaker?"
"That salt shaker was the at the first meal after my wedding."
"How much?"
"30."
"It's just a record....."
"Yeah but I was concieved while it played...."
"How much?"
"Bitch I said things were fucking marked! Wait.... whatcha got there? Give that back to me."
"You set it out."
"Yeah well I didn't mean to, give it."
"No."
"Please don't make me hit you with this Rainbow Brite doll."
"I'm buying it."
"No... no friend, you are not."
"Am."
/swings rainbow brite in a circle wind-up.
I mean... there is no parting me from my shit so I wonder a lot where it went. I think my mother secretly snuck it out piece by piece. She's sneaky like that. Tell me mom... where is my glow worm? My sit and spin? Which incidentally was the best toy EVER. Hours of letting a kid make themselves more stupid and watch them walk into walls from being dizzy. Shit, I'd have laughed if I were my mother too.
Alas I am off my loves, post your most loved toys, (I also dug lincoln logs and constructed something that I would whap my sister in the face with as she slept, seriously she'll tell you - top bunk having bitch)...... interact in the comments section while I am away. Think... and post...
Cooties? Jogging your memories.... post post post
-DM
-ps Mr Morgan only told my today, that the last time wewent on vacation, Simon didn't sleep for two days and cried the whole time. Fuck me.