TRUE ???? # 6

 Sharon and Jim were sitting in the front booth by the door, communicating back and forth with James, who was sitting at the back table next to the game room. I was sitting somewhere in between, and when I commented that I needed an ear megaphone to be able to eavesdrop, James allowed that we needed an intercom system. He probably thinks with an intercom the volume could be turned way down so I couldn’t hear. The newsletter would be REAL short, cause he knows I wouldn’t just make something up.

     Curtis had just raided his doctors office and got all the magazines to have something to read while he ate breakfast. Instead of picking and choosing, which would take too much time, he just raked all the books into a suitcase he carries for that purpose, then driving to the café, he culled the stack by chunking anything that didn’t have a pretty picture on the front out the window. Seems in his haste to get to the doctors office, he had left his specs at home, and was reading at arms length. We should get some reading glasses to leave at the café for those rare times when Curtis wants to read, but might be in a hurry.

     Tammy, scope bit eye and all, was back at her post this morning. She was swaying this a way, and that a way, and stumbling over chairs, but when asked what she had in her coffee, she replied that the doctor had given her some REALLY good medicine. When Jim said he had an eyelash in his food, she said: “ I DON’T CARE”, and continued serving food and coffee in her efficient way.

     Jim and Sharon are going down to Victoria to commune with the mosquitoes, and get some free tar balls from the beach. They are driving down in an 18 wheeler so they can get a LOT of tar balls. When I commented that I thought that was really great of them to help out the ecology that way, they said: “Nah. We’re going to take all the tar balls we can get, even if it means making several trips. Then we’ll drive out to California and put all the tar balls into the San Andreas fault. Our plan is, if we get enough oil in that fault, the next time those Tectonic Plates shift, California might just slide off into the Pacific.” When I said I didn’t much care for California either, they said that wasn’t the reason. Seems they have some land in Arizona they want to irrigate, and their application for a permit to divert some water from the Colorado river was denied by the California Legislature. They have since learned that salt water would work for their purposes, and they could bring in ocean water without a permit, and it’s free on top of that. Sounds logical to me.



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