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| February 18, 1997 |
Circulation 73 |
Vol. 1, No. 26 |
NICE HOLIDAY: Even though some
folks didn't have it ... it was a nice 3 day weekend ...
yep ... we made it to our concert Saturday night ... for
those of you who are prob'ly scratchin' your heads ...
thinkin' to yourself "I didn't picture him listenin'
to Kenny G or Toni Braxton music" ... well ... you're
right! ... but this was the only concert in town 'til
it warms up enough for some of the outdoor concerts ...
Toni was OK ... she was on first ... then Kenny G did
the late show ... his 4 minute rendition of the note 'A'
was impressive ... but I've run into salesman who could
talk for 5 minutes without takin' a breath ... I wonder
if he was breathin' through his ears, too! ... we capped
the evenin' with a midnight breakfast at Frank's Diner
... a heart-stoppin' combination of fried eggs, chicken-fried
steak floatin' 'n cream gravy, hash browns 'n a biscuit
... who needs Kevorkian?!?!
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ALMOST: We had a family gatherin'
for #7's 12th birthday ... he's almost a teenager ...
we taught #2's puppy, Gus-Gus, the electric slide ...
on our Scat-Mats ... watched our grandbaby torturin' mom's
tummy ... from the inside still ... drooled over the rocket
launchin' set #7 got ... all us boys were thinkin' how
we'd always wanted somethin' like that all our lives ...
but our mean ol' parents jes' never let us have it ...
afraid we'd blow our fingers off ... wait a minute! ...
who got 'im this present anyway?!?!? ... now that's a
horse of a different color!
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SALE: It's that time ... the
nanny-mobile's on it's last legs ... #5's benefactor's
hintin' 'bout gettin' the car back ... time to scope out
a replacement for the Pig Mobile ... we wandered down
to the car lot ... armed with all the enticin' ads for
the car dealers ... this'd be a piece o' cake ... waltz
in ... show 'em the ad ... find out how much the payments'd
be ... oh well ... it was a nice thought anyway ... the
cheapest new car is $10,000 ... or so ... the little pickups
were cute ... the one that was advertised in the paper
was a casket-colored beige ... a real turn-off ... by
the time you added back all the weird discounts they used
to get the advertised price down it was up to a $275 a
month payment ... we looked at used cars ... a 2 year
old model with 32,000 miles on it was as much as the new
car ... none of it was makin' any sense ... we went to
a second dealership ... the salesman was obsessin' over
the fact that it was a home-owned business ... the owner
was a "computer guy" who'd never been in the
car bid'ness before ... like that was s'posed to make
me wanna buy a car from 'im ... he went on to brag that
he'd (the salesman) been sellin' cars since Abe Lincoln's
time ... I couldn't wait to escape from the Twilight Zone
... car-less ... maybe some other time.
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"Watching all these doomsday
shows about asteroids hitting the earth or the ice caps
melting makes me want to run to the store and buy a bunch
of toilet paper, bread and milk." -- Mikey, Thinkin'
Too Hard
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| Mikey's Muse(tm)
is published weekdays as a commentary on stuff. Editor,
Michael T. Rusk. Copyright © 1997 by Michael T. Rusk.
Printed in the U.S.A. This publication may be distributed
freely as long as there is no charge. Commentary is loosely
based on actual events and may contain embellishments,
bits of fiction, and editorial liberties (lies) under
the guise of poetic license. All characters portrayed
in my writing are purely fictional and any resemblance
to any person, company or animal is purely unintentional.
If you don't get it, you just don't get it. Don't blame
me for anything I say and don't do anything I say, either.
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