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Cake day: March 3rd, 2024

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  • I don’t want to be waited on. I don’t want to have to wonder when or if someone might refill my drink. I don’t want to have to ask for extra napkins. I don’t want to be put on the spot deciding what sides I want. I don’t want to have to ask what salad dressings there are.

    I want to interact with other people as little as possible. McDonald’s might be basic, but give me a kiosk to order from every time.

    What I do want is to know exactly what I’m getting. Fast food has continuity of product down to a science.


















  • When I was a teenager, I took my dad’s old Vietnam helmet liner, a sheet, and a bag of rocks for ballast, and made a ghost out of it. Then I strung a piece of clothesline from the top of the porch across the driveway, and up into a tall tree, at maybe a 30 degree angle down from the tree. Hung the ghost from a pulley on the clothesline, and had another length of line loose attached to it.

    I just stood in the crook of this cottonwood tree waiting for kids to come. They’d get their candy, and I’d let the ghost go. So much screaming. Reel it back up and wait for the next group of kids. The only part of it that came anywhere near touching anyone was the sheet hanging down, everything else was always much much higher than head height even for an adult.