On Many Subjects

Imagine it is the first thing in the morning and landlord is pounding on the door while you are in the shower. Imagine your Bro was still sleeping. Now, Imagine you had contacted the landlord to come to the apartment to fix the air conditioner that was pouring copious amounts of water onto the carpet in the hallway upstairs the day before and he said he would come to the apartment to fix it but didn't specify when.

Imagine you find your bathrobe and your pad down the stairs, hair dripping and leaving a trail of soapy water on the steops. Imagine you pull the door open and there is no one there when a moment before there was loud pounding. Imagine you close the door and you cannot believe that there is actually no one there, so you pull the door open again and there is the landlord, with his pass key in hand and a very startled look on his face. Imagine he says, "Oh, good morning. I didn't think anyone was here."

Imagine you unnecessarily explain that you were in the shower, a place you would love to return to as soon as possible. Imagine your landlord saying, "Well I need to work on the air conditioner. Is your brother here?"

Imagine you answer, "Yes, but he is still asleep."

Imagine the landlord then says, "When no one answered, I thought no one was here. I didn't see your car."

Imagine you reply, "I had to park my car up the hill because all the spaces in front of my apartment were taken by the time I got home last night."

Now, imagine that you get back into the shower, the landlord fixes the air conditioner and your Bro comes out of the bedroom, full of lots of foul language because someone dared to wake him up before noon and imagine you respond that if he had a job like normal people instead of mooching off his sister, he wouldn't have to worry about being woken up the first thing in the morning. Imagine he replies he would have been woken up if he worked the night shift somewhere. Imagine you tell him to be quiet because it is a moot point because he doesn't have a job and using all kinds of bad language because he was woken up is stupid because he can go back to sleep while his sister goes out and earns a living, giving him the opportunity to sleep his miserable life away. Imagine you are in a bad mood and it is getting worse every second.

Now, imagine that you get ready for work and walk up the hill to retreive your car and you find it has a VERY flat tire and you have to call roadside assistance becuase you own a truck with oversize tires and the jack you have in your truck will not jack the truck up enough to be able to change the tire. Imagine that you are completely broke because it is five days before payday and you cannot afrod to buy a new tire at that moment and the only tire you have to put on your car is the one that failed inspection just two months before.

Imagine having to drive to work on a tire that may or may not last for five days until you can get a new one until you can get a new one on payday.

Imagine you are an hour late for work, you miss your first appointment and your supervisor is irritated because he had to step in for you. Imagine the coffee at work is terrible, there is paint fumes everywhere because they are still remodeling the school and your head starts to ache. Imagine you have two twitching eyes and you notice that your eyes only twitch when you are at work and you wonder if maybe you should have stayed home, today.

If you can imagine all of that, then you know how my day started.