Things have changed. And boy HOWDY! do they continue. I bought a used washer/dryer combo yesterday for $500. An old Maytag commercial set, prolly 15-20 years old and looks like it might last another fitteen to kwinny. Two problems with my having bought the pair, though. I won't have anywhere to PUT them until after I close on my new, home with a range, 'The Old Same Place', on May 7. and I'll need them delivered. The nice lady at the Estate Liquidation place told me they could sit there in this YUGE warehouse (Everything from boats to motorcycles to lawnmowers to furniture of all description and style, to ... well .... just about EVERYTHING I'll need to furnish an empty three bedroom home! Oh yeah. I'll be back there again!) as long as I needed and she gave me the phone number of the gentleman, Tomas, she engages for all her hauling needs. "He's pretty busy so get with him early.", Ms. Norrie told me. "OH! And he prefers cash.". "Don't we all." was my dry reply.
Then when I got back here to the Shady West Motel and checked my emails ..... my mortgage lender tells me that the Marriage Dissolution (Disillusion?) papers my future ex-wife filed have my status in Limbo and he's working on a "Waiver". He says "Not to worry, my friend!" big, jolly, mover- shaker type, Gary told me, "I'll get to work on the waiver.". "Not to worry." he says. Me? I'm a worried man with a worried mind and a stranger in a strange, strange, place. Comfort zones here, so far? like the armadillo ... Fookin' NIL! People are crazy and times are strange. I'm locked in tight and I'm outta range. I used to care but things have definitely changed.
Anybody need an old beat up washer/dryer combo?
A worried man with a worried mind
No one in front of me and nothing behind
There’s a woman on my lap and she’s drinking champagne
Got white skin, got assassin’s eyes
I’m looking up into the sapphire-tinted skies
I’m well dressed, waiting on the last train
Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose
Any minute now I’m expecting all hell to break loose
[Chorus:]
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
This place ain’t doing me any good
I’m in the wrong town, I should be in Hollywood
Just for a second there I thought I saw something move
Gonna take dancing lessons, do the jitterbug rag
Ain’t no shortcuts, gonna dress in drag
Only a fool in here would think he’s got anything to prove
Lot of water under the bridge, lot of other stuff too
Don’t get up gentlemen, I’m only passing through
[Chorus]
I’ve been walking forty miles of bad road
If the Bible is right, the world will explode
I’ve been trying to get as far away from myself as I can
Some things are too hot to touch
The human mind can only stand so much
You can’t win with a losing hand
Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet
Putting her in a wheelbarrow and wheeling her down the street
[Chorus]
I hurt easy, I just don’t show it
You can hurt someone and not even know it
The next sixty seconds could be like an eternity
Gonna get low down, gonna fly high
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie
I’m in love with a woman who don’t even appeal to me
Mr. Jinx and Miss Lucy, they jumped in the lake
I’m not that eager to make a mistake
[Chorus]
Then when I got back here to the Shady West Motel and checked my emails ..... my mortgage lender tells me that the Marriage Dissolution (Disillusion?) papers my future ex-wife filed have my status in Limbo and he's working on a "Waiver". He says "Not to worry, my friend!" big, jolly, mover- shaker type, Gary told me, "I'll get to work on the waiver.". "Not to worry." he says. Me? I'm a worried man with a worried mind and a stranger in a strange, strange, place. Comfort zones here, so far? like the armadillo ... Fookin' NIL! People are crazy and times are strange. I'm locked in tight and I'm outta range. I used to care but things have definitely changed.
Anybody need an old beat up washer/dryer combo?
A worried man with a worried mind
No one in front of me and nothing behind
There’s a woman on my lap and she’s drinking champagne
Got white skin, got assassin’s eyes
I’m looking up into the sapphire-tinted skies
I’m well dressed, waiting on the last train
Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose
Any minute now I’m expecting all hell to break loose
[Chorus:]
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
This place ain’t doing me any good
I’m in the wrong town, I should be in Hollywood
Just for a second there I thought I saw something move
Gonna take dancing lessons, do the jitterbug rag
Ain’t no shortcuts, gonna dress in drag
Only a fool in here would think he’s got anything to prove
Lot of water under the bridge, lot of other stuff too
Don’t get up gentlemen, I’m only passing through
[Chorus]
I’ve been walking forty miles of bad road
If the Bible is right, the world will explode
I’ve been trying to get as far away from myself as I can
Some things are too hot to touch
The human mind can only stand so much
You can’t win with a losing hand
Feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet
Putting her in a wheelbarrow and wheeling her down the street
[Chorus]
I hurt easy, I just don’t show it
You can hurt someone and not even know it
The next sixty seconds could be like an eternity
Gonna get low down, gonna fly high
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie
I’m in love with a woman who don’t even appeal to me
Mr. Jinx and Miss Lucy, they jumped in the lake
I’m not that eager to make a mistake
[Chorus]
Beej. Not to worry. I've got an almost new scrub board and a roll of unused clothesline from my time up to the high plateau. One little rust stain in the lower corner of what I think you'd call the "front". I say call it the front because both sides carry the same printed messages but this one had the price sticker, still applied.
ReplyDeleteSounds like the little lady might have been a touch tardy in filing, no? Mayhaps she's finally in the state of mind to understand her pending losses.
Hang tough dudly-dude. I've got a used wheelbarrow as well.
Fuck Walmart!
Hey ol' Buddy! Have you ever gotten a divorce? A daunting task.(Do you know why a divorce costs so much? Because it's WORTH it!) Have you ever bought a home? Have you ever tried to do both at once? Two weeks and one day until closing and I'm still not sure the home deal will go down. I'll find out for SURE today! I may have to live in that freakin' washer/dryer for about 60 days until that divorce decree 'Cures' or whatever it takes 60 to do before it's final. maybe 'Dissolves' is a better word. Anyway ... hold onto that old washboard and wheel barr' for me. I might could use 'em.
ReplyDeleteFor a three month period, once, I lived, ate, and slept in a hole, dug into the ground, with a sandbagged culvert half for a roof. Wudn't much of a hooch, but it was MY fuckin' hooch! She has no losses. The only thing I took from her was my leave ...
Good to see you out and about! Thanks for stopping by, my Friend.