Monday, August 8, 2011

For you movie buffs'...

I was walking in Ohio back in '07. I had walked out of a small town and came upon a small motel that been converted to efficiency apartments. There were no other structures in sight, two miles from the town I had just passed thru and miles from any store in the direction I was heading. Ahead of me appeared a woman pulling a two wheeled basket cart with a few bags in it. She stopped me to talk in front of the tiny strip of apartments, she lived there, and after talking for a few minutes she invited me in for a soda. Once in the small apartment she served me a drink. Every time I had the glass almost empty the woman filled it again. She asked if I would stay for dinner but I had just eaten in town and politely declined her repeated offers. As I looked around the apartment I saw piles of clothes, books and video tapes cluttering the room. That didn't bother me, I have a lot of clutter myself. What had me get up and head for the door was when I noticed her television with a VCR on top and on of it was just one movie as if it were a shrine ornament, a precious possession in a dust free place of honor. As I said I hurried for the door (the locked, bolted and latched door) with a quickness after I read the title of the movie, "Misery". When I finally got the door unlocked and was outside I walked with added 'pep", like a turkey in tall corn. All the lonely woman could she was tail feathers...

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