Around daybreak this morning Dory asked me if I was awake. I looked at her through one eye and said, 'mostly'. She then said to me, "Hunky, you have been so kind and patient about my being gone so much that I want to treat you to a bell ringing session of sex." Instantly I was totally awake and the ole sun popped up as I looked at her with very wide opened eyes. The song, "I can see clearly now the rain has gone" popped into my mind along with another line or two of it like, "Gone are the dark clouds that made me crash", "I think I can ride now the pain has gone" and "It's going to be a bright, bright sunshiny day". All this quickly crashed and burned and the clouds gatherer in my mind negating the earlier rise of the ole sun as she continued. "I think I'll take you to the gambling boat in Boonville today."
It didn't take me long to see the bell ringing was going to be from a mechanical machine that I've got to keep sticking money into so that it will screw me. All those bells and flashing lights in a place where 98% of the other folks being screwed sit there without a trace of a smile or any happy. Looking at all the expressions you notice that most are very similar to what people wear to funerals. It's kinda like they've all maxed out on their credit cards and don't know what to do. I don't know what will happen when the machines begin to accept credit cards? Ug, what a thought Popeye!
Where I quoted Dory, she may not have used every word as I've typed it but it is a true summarization of the way I see it now.
That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. ~Barbara Ehrenreich
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