Unexpected Good FortuneTravelling through Seattle a good 15 years ago, I remembered an old friend I used to blow up Action Men with. We were bored, nothing to lose , so I looked him up in the phonebook. He was the only one of that name in there. "Come and stay," goes he.
Me and my mates were living in a car at that point so a bed was a novelty. After searching for a while, we rock up to a very posh mansion on Puget Sound with its own Helipad. "Come flying," goes he.
Has your luck held out recently?
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chthonic, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 18:43)
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Too late I'm sure..."I'm unemployed, homeless and single. How much *luckier* do you want me to get?"
That's the reply I had to give a friend of mine several years back when he accused me of "always being really lucky" after I found a tenner.
I was indeed unemployed, homeless and single. Even when I had somewhere to live, I just sat in the house, smoking dope and watching cartoons. My unexpected good fortune was the support of friends that encouraged me (eventually) to actually start doing something with my life again.
It took me about five years all in all to go from being a deadbeat who sits about all day at home, to a deadbeat who goes to work (and sits about all day). I *think* that's progress of sorts but occasionally I miss my previous career of sitting around in my pants watching the Powerpuff Girls, totally kablooie-ed out of my box. I've got it wrong again haven't I?
(, Thu 21 Sep 2006, 17:08, Reply)
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