the padded room

So I had this idea for a story a long time ago, back when I thought up a lot of the stories I've been trying to write for a long time, about inanimate objects. It would be a tale about all the inanimate objects around us... chairs, toothbrushes, doors... all that stuff. It would revolve around a guy that couldn't hear all the conversations, but the things would be talking all around him, so the stuff in earshot if he had an ear to shoot... if that makes sense. Anyway, it was going to be funny, or at least I was going to try and make it funny.

I'm telling you that because I wanted to tell you this. There was this guy at work yeseterday that was all jacked up out in the parking lot. I'll preface this by saying I work in downtown Riverside, CA, so it's not exactly prime real estate - we'll just leave that there. By jacked up I mean he looked like he had been drinking, well all his life and only now was he going to vomit. I mean dude this guy was out there making these groaning noises that I could hear in the store, and I'm a sympathy puker so I had to bolt. He was holding on to this railing that keeps... well I don't know what it keeps out or safe, it's just there at the front of our parking lot... and he was holding on to it for dear life. I mean this guy looked so bad, and then he collapsed and we called the cops, but as I was describing the guy to 911 some random car came up and asked if he was ok, then he got in the car and they drove off... that's strange.

But yeah, I told you that so I could tell you this part. When he was leaning on that railing I was thinking that if that rail could talk he'd say, "Dude, turn around and puke in the street, he's an asshole."

[ drainpip ] | 8:01 PM | 3 comments

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Anonymous said...: Ok first of all how many boxes of Nerds did you eat before you wrote this?

Second of all whatever small itsy bitsy possibility there was that I would live in Riverside is now officially gone.

And WTF? What freak of nature just picks up a stranger who is drunk off his ass? That is just so strange.

Yeah for random thoughts of the day about drunk strange crazy guys and story ideas.

k sleepy time.; 3:31 AM
tara said...: rachel-stay out of riverside. it will suck you in and keep you there forever.

shane-i have long thought that inanimate objects could think/talk. like when i royally fuck up the microwave or mckenna is playing around with it-i always think it must be thinking-why the fuck did i get stuck with this royally fucked up family???; 1:38 PM
Rachel said...: You know, this title "Random thought of the day" is rather deceiving because it imply's that there will be more random thoughts to come...Like each day there will be a new random thought for the day...And so everyday I come back here thinking maybe he posted a new random thought...But it is going on a month now and still no new random thought.

Just thought I would let you know how I felt about your random thought or lack of there bullshit.

I'm on to you.; 10:45 PM

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