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Just Another Day On The Job

4/15/2015

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                He tried to understand her, But her Dialect was almost unintelligible . But it didn't matter. Her body language spoke volumes.   Watching her talk was an adventure unto itself. It didn't really matter what she was trying to say.

    The more she talked, the less sense she made. But he didn't really care.  Her head moves almost as much as her mouth, Her  shoulders  went up and down as he moved her arms, waving them around her hands dancing in the air in front of her like a maestro directing an orchestra .  Her fingers danced almost as much as her arms.  All of this tended to create a effect of a very manic woman trying to get something very important out but being  hindered by her own  inability to slow down and focus on what she was trying to say.

    The question was what was so important ? Why was she so frantic? He could only slowly start to make out bits and pieces of what she was trying to say.

Looking at the direction from which she had come. He saw the building from she had just came from.   The airport.  Then his eyes went slowly above the top of the building.  The thick black smoke  slowly rose above the roof of the building. As it rose up higher, the winds pushed it around.  Suddenly it came to him, She wanted him to come and help with whatever was going on.  

     He had only just arrived and gotten out of his car when she approached him, talking a mile a minute, so fast her words ran together thus making her dialect that much even more pronounced. At first he couldn’t understand what had drawn her to him the second he appeared from his car. Then glancing down, He realized he had on his  porter uniform.  He had just barely arrived at the airport to begin a long shift hauling luggage around for people who more money than he’d ever see in his lifetime.   Finely able to take his eyes off her, he realized what happened.  

A airplane had crashed on a runway behind the airport tower, and all hell was breaking loose.  People were scrambling everywhere, sirens blaring and big trucks rolled, barely missing his car.  The lady grabbed his hand and pulled him towards the  building. He let himself be pulled along. Obviously there was something important she wanted him to see or do.  They managed to push their way into the building the crowd was confused and scared as she dragged through the maze of people.   There in a back corner  of a back room was a another lady.

She looked to be about the same age as the first lady.  She was sitting on the floor, One took told him he a big problem, on his hands. Aside from being scared and in pain, she was very, very pregnant. As in about to pop any minute.

    Many thing went through his mind; chief among them; “I don’t know nothin’ ‘bout birthin’ no baby” Then his old army training took over evaluate . determine best course of action, and then do it.  Looking around he saw a empty office with a couch,   He pointed to office and he and the lady got the other one up on her feet, and started as quickly as she could manage to the office. Once in the office they lay her on the couch.  Then it was time to settle down that talking lady,  He finally got her to understand that she should with her, while went to look for help and supplies, he’d be back as quick as possible.  Out of the office looking around in the confusion, he spotted a  storeroom. Fortunately whoever was in there last forgot to lock it. Inside he found a first aid kit, grabbed some blankets, along the way back got some bottled water, Within a very few minutes he was back.

Inside the room, the patient was in pretty bad shape, The panic lady had gotten most of her restrictive cloths off, and gotten as comfortable as she could on the couch.  Now for the hard part delivering a baby, without proper equipment or experience  or training.  As they begin the process of giving birth the rest of the world seemed to fade away for a while, they were so intent on what they were doing.  For them in that office, there was no airport, no crashed plane, no sirens and people yelling and screaming and general confusion, for the next hour.

    One hour later; they had a brand new baby boy. Both mother and her sister are doing fine and he could finally start breathing again. With a great sense of relief and pride he went to find the proper people to help take care of them.

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Life's Test

3/20/2015

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           The blank page stared back up at him.  Yes, he knew he knew all of the answers. He should. He'd spent the last several nights and weeks studying for the big test.  This was the biggest test of his young life. He had spent the last 9 months going all over with his older brother, mother and father, anytime there was chance for him to go.  Now he sat staring  at the test paper,  After a minute the answers came to him.   One by one he carefully  checked the questions, Several of them were trick questions, If one didn't read them carefully, they were very easy to answer wrong. But he caught them.  Twenty minutes later he finished the test, handed it back to the clerk behind the big counter.  Her waited nervously while she checked he test against the master answer list she had behind the desk. Finally she looked up and smiled, 

     "You did very good, Young man, Perfect score,  We don't get many of them." 

A few minutes later he was outside with his mother at the car.  He showed her the perfect test. Then the lady from behind the counter came out ad met them at the car,

     His mother watched nervously as he got into the driver's seat and the lady got in the passenger's seat , He started the car, waited for directions, and headed out the parking lot.  Turning right, they went down the street, and made several lane changes and various other turns, and finely came back to the parking lot,  

     His mother waited for them to return with the car. He got out with the lady, Both had big smiles on their faces.



     "Congratulations, Jimmy, You've just passed your drivers test, I'll issue a temporary licence in the office, and you'll get your permanent drivers licence in the mail within the next few weeks."

     As they drove home his mother was a mixture of pride that he had passed his drivers test on  the  first time, and that the morning hadn't been boring. and her most over ridding thought was;

Clear The Road;   Another Teenager has his Licence.  !!


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And The New Boss Is....

3/7/2015

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  Her conceit was  only matched by her ability to babble on for hours about absolutely nothing. There were a host of things that she did very well. She could shoot a gun as well as any man, better than most. She had other abilities, such as being able to cook a meal that would put any TV celebrity chef to shame. While at the same time make him enjoy the experience. Most importantly of all she knew when to shut the hell up and listen. Something she had to  learn the hard way over the years. Along with that she had learned to tell people what they needed to hear, without alienating them.

      While there were people who really didn't like her. The majority of people overlooked her many eccentricities , in favor of her talents. Weather it was competing on the range, or the kitchen, or writing, or generally outdoing most everyone around her. She stood out among the crowd. In politics she had learned to get folks to do things they didn't necessarily want to, but with her coxing they would reach  a consensus. Over the years she had taken her gift of gab and turned  it to the business of making money and building a empire. Now she was taking her  talents and ambition and drive to the business of running a country.

     All of theses facts came together came together the day she took the oath of office for President of the United States.

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Old Married Couple

2/10/2015

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            "Smart-ass" She  quipped to him at his remark about her looks. But she knew he meant it as a compliment. In the many years they had been married, both had traded backhand compliments back and forth in the the name of love. They both knew at the end of the day, they loved each other. No matter who said or did what, or what they looked liked.  Over the decades their bodies had changed . Gravity had taken is toll, along,with various aliments that came with both old age and  being married for decades. 

     Over the years they had survived many challenges. Their 4 kids were a source of pride, all were good upstanding , hard working citizens. They had make their mark in the world in positive ways.  Their personal lives had flourished, as they got older they had found new ways to enjoy the perks of being older and living within their physical limitations

.      All in all it had been a good life. some of magic, a lot of it tragic, but they had a good life all they way.

They are the quintessential, old married couple. 

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The Writing Life

1/26/2015

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The writing life.

       Some days its easy, some days its like pulling teeth. The days when you sit at the computer and just start typing and the words come flowing out like a river, creating paragraphs, and stories, worlds of their own, on their own are a joy. Even when the worlds come freely you will still need to edit them but you know you have good material to work with, In the end, you've created something that's the best you can do.

     But there are the days when the words won't come. The stories just aren't there. You start and very shortly you find you've run out of places to go.         A dead end. The stories seem to be shiftless  They have no central character, or theme or concrete story line. Theses are the stories that are hard to write, Making the dead end go somewhere, Anywhere. Sometimes its much easier to hit "delete: and start all over again, Some weeks are like that every time you sit to write and  the words crash and burn on the screen.  But oh when it's right, and you find the right story and  everything comes together its worth it.

Such is the Writing Life
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I Know All Your Secerts

1/26/2015

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I  know your secrets. 
 I know what time you get up n the morning, What time you leave for work, when you come home from work,  I know the things you do when no one is home, What you like to wear when you don't have to be dressed for company, what your favorite way to bathe is, bath or shower,   

     I know all you secrets.  whether you a PC or  a Mac user.  I know what your browser of choice is, what you like to do online when no one is around.  

     I know all your secrets.  I know what music you like to listen to, What TV shows, and movies you like to watch  when no one is around.  I know all the signs of when you having a bad day.  

     I know all your secrets,  I know what snacks you like to snack on  at night,  How you like to sleep, which side of the bed you sleep on. 

So you see There's nothing you do do at home that I don;t know.  

The stories and secrets I could  tell.

 Its a good thing I can't talk.



I'm you Cat.
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I Know all Your Secrets 

1/26/2015

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I  know your secrets. 
 I know what time you get up n the morning, What time you leave for work, when you come home from work,  I know the things you do when no one is home, What you like to wear when you don't have to be dressed for company, what your favorite way to bathe is, bath or shower,   

     I know all you secrets.  whether you a PC or  a Mac user.  I know what your browser of choice is, what you like to do online when no one is around.  

     I know all your secrets.  I know what music you like to listen to, What TV shows, and movies you like to watch  when no one is around.  I know all the signs of when you having a bad day.  

     I know all your secrets,  I know what snacks you like to snack on  at night,  How you like to sleep, which side of the bed you sleep on. 

So you see There's nothing you do do at home that I don;t know.  

The stories and secrets I could  tell.

 Its a good thing I can't talk.



I'm your Cat
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