A DAY IN THE LIFE

Blog number 246 **** 16 November 2008

Mine wife and I went to the Big Fry's Grocery and Notions today. Spoke to a cutie sitting in a grocery cart. She turned her head away from me. "If I can't see you, you don't exist."

Strolled over to the in-house Starbucks. Bought a cup of coffee - actually, a "Black Eye." I ordered a tall coffee with a shot of espresso in it, and the baristo said, "You want a Red Eye."

I aked, "That's what it's called?"

He said, "Yeah. If you have two shots, it's a Black Eye."

I said, "Gimme a Black Eye."

So he hit me.

Naw, Just kidding.

I paid for my Black Eye with a two dollar bill, a fifty cent piece and some change. He commented that it seemed a shame to spend a two dollar bill like that. I told him they were real easy to make. He jerked straight, looked at me, looked at the bill, studied the bill a bit, looked at me again. I think my grin might have clued him in that I was joking.

Writing "clued" in the above paragraph reminded me that while I was on the streets in L. A. back in my younger days, I spotted a newspaper on a stand that had a big headline with clue spelled, "Clew." The headline. Ain't that weird?

They had movies that all night long - all day, every day, showed newsreels. Only. That's weird too, right? L.A. is a weird town.