He did it again. Pauly forgot my piece!
This sure brings back some memories from early childhood…
You see, this was way back in the day, during the depressions (yeah, plural) and my mother had barely given birth to me before she forgot me in the bus stop outside the hospital. There were no ambulances back then either so she had to take the bus. The paramedics were too depressed to be paramedics, and all the bus drivers were alcoholics just like today. Being that the times were hard (back then the times were so hard that people didn’t speak about the times, everything just took ages) my mother rushed to work one and a half hour after giving birth to me.
And there I was. Sitting in the bus stop shelter, watching the rain from the cosy warmth of my dry newspaper. Incidently, that’s how I learned to read as well. Babies are very perceiptive and as a newborn having barely met my mother (she was a stranger to me then) I felt more in touch with those inviting looking letters, the nourishing ink and the funny smell. Add a few years and here I am today! Or I should have been had it not been for Dr. Pauly spending too much time with his own medicine. But I’m not bitter. Just like I learned to forgive my mother some fifteen years later, I will be able to forgive Pauly one day, given he straightens out the error of his ways and commit himself fully to the dao teachings that he spoke of so dearly so many years ago. Words about a horseman, some trees, a mountain, a midget and a bowl of fish.
FYI: all of this means that you’ll have to wait until September for my third and last installment in the One Night Out trilogy. Instead you’re gonna have to settle with this lot. Which seems, not much to my surprise, to be a sturdy group of fellow planet inhabitants or something. Titles look kinda interesting don’t they? Let’s give ’em a click. (By the way, Pauly sent me an e-mail at the last minute asking me to re-send the story but at the time I was being baptized in Guinnes at the Temple Bar in Dublin, Ireland. Sry.)
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