I spent most of the afternoon working on a rather lengthy entry – a review and analysis of the Jack T. Chick film The Light of the World – that I’m not entirely pleased with and which I think needs to be retooled significantly before being posted.
So I’m not sure when/if you’ll get to read it, but I hardly think that constitutes a major loss.
I never got a call from the shop so I guess my car wasn’t finished by the end of the day.
I called my realtor to let him know what happened at my meeting this morning. Turns out he already knew, as he’d talked to the finance guy, and he said that there’s probably a lot we can do in terms of getting the price lowered on the property I’m interested in, which is good news, I think. I’m having to guess, as most of what he said …ounded…ike…is…utting…nd…out…efore dropping off completely.
When I tried calling him back I got his voicemail, so I have no idea what exactly he had to say on the subject.
When I was leaving the mortgage office this morning, the guy I’d been talking to noticed the ankh on the back of my neck and asked where I’d gotten my tattoo done.
Not wanting to say, “I got it in rehab” while standing in the lobby of an office building, I said, “Let’s just call it homemade.”
The office building is actually located in the little town center by that nice theater that Scott and I sometime go to. Since I was there, I had thought about taking in a movie afterwards, but the only movie I would have wanted to see – Knocked Up – wasn’t showing until after noon, and I didn’t feel like hanging around that long.
While I was waiting for Scott and Jamie to arrive at Uno’s for lunch, some guy came up to me and asked for directions on how to get to 28 South. I told him what I thought was the best route, while some lady whom he’d asked earlier sat listening and nodding her head. After he was on his way the lady said that she had a hard time trying to visualize the best route, which is why he’d had to turn to me after talking to her.
We chatted for a little bit until the person that she was meeting showed up. I told her about the time I’d lived in Red Wing and had been out walking one afternoon shortly after moving to where I was living at the time. A couple pulled up alongside me and asked me how to get to a certain street. I was forced to admit that I’d only just moved there and didn’t know any street names. They thanked me anyway and turned around and drove off in the opposite direction. Shortly after that I got to the end of the block and found myself at an intersection with the street they’d been looking for.
After her friend arrived and they went inside I thought to myself that this was just another example of how I never get to have chance encounters with attractive young woman, as this lady, while pleasant enough, was probably close to my mother’s age.
My own preferences aside, I don’t think even my mother is desperate enough for me to meet someone that she’d want me hooking up with someone in her age bracket.
Still, why couldn’t it have been an attractive woman my age? What is the universal law that prevents me from ever being in a circumstance in which I can just have this random chance encounter with someone other than guys and women in their 60s? Single women in their 30s don’t eat lunch?
Granted, even if I did have a chance encounter with someone other than a guy or a member of AARP the odds are that nothing would come of it, but it would be nice to find that out for certain.
Oh well.
In any case, this was mostly just a filler entry to make up for the entry I didn’t post, and seeing as how I’m not really under any obligation to post at al, I suppose I can bring this to a close.
1 comment:
You must post your review of "Light of the World". It is so freaky that every thought upon it is worthwhile. And you seem very smart and funny!
Here's some inspiration (if needed): You will get a kick out of this entirely: there are nine short films based on actual Chick tracts over at www.316now.com. Titles like "Angels" "Cleo" "Party Girl" and "Doom Town" You will dig it!!!
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