He wondered, with a sigh, why do all these actors deliver their lines with a sigh?
Destination
Have you ever been out walking, and then suddenly stopped and looked around, and asked yourself, “Where am I going?”, and your mind answers, “Do you mean metaphorically?”
Yes, I have.
Hole
You ever put a sock on that’s almost new, like, bought a month ago, and you find a hole in the toe, so you think about that sock and what you paid, and the hole in the toe, and how cheap some things are made, and how you should take it back to get a refund, but you probably don’t have the receipt, so you decide you should throw it away instead, because it has a hole, but then decide, screw it, nobody will see it, it’s just a sock, and I paid good money for that, so you put it on anyway, and then you can feel your toe sticking through the hole as you’re walking around, reminding you about how cheap it is, and by extension, how cheap you are?
Yeah, me neither.
Feelings
Has someone ever offered you something, saying, “This is really good, you’ll love it,” but you taste it and find it’s disgusting, yet you tell them, “You’re right, it is good,” because you don’t want to hurt their feelings?
No, never. Sure.
Quirks
She has quirks. She loves chocolate, and she loves coffee and espresso, but she doesn’t like chocolate covered espresso beans.
Rebuilding
He made a decision: he would rebuild and again be the person he once was.
It would be difficult, no less so because they’d cremated his body and spread his ashes on the wind.
The August Holiday
The best thing about Halloween, Thanksgiving, and the December holiday triumvirate in America is that they make it difficult for November and December to sneak up on us. It’s hard to be unaware of the calendar with all that commercial preparation – advertising, music, and sales, repeatedly presented at high volume – taking place.
That’s the trouble with August in America: no real holiday to mark the calendar. Sure, we have Labor Day at September’s beginning, but it’s one of those nebulous Federal Monday holidays. People often ask each other, “When is Labor Day this year?”, meaning, what day does Labor Day fall on? Then you hit that long stretch from there until Halloween. Days skim by on such untroubled water. Suddenly September has turned to October, and you’re playing catch-up with time.
It’s a game that’s hard to win.
Deceived
You ever look out the window and think, “Wow, look at that sunshine, what a gorgeous day,” and then go out and get berated by body parts shrieking for warmth and calling you stupid for not dressing warmly?
Yeah. Brrr.
Searching
Do you ever get irritated because you put something like “Veteran’s Day” into a search engine on your computer, and the results come back, “Save on Veterans at Walmart. Free Shipping Site to Store.”?
No, neither do I?
