Making It Up As I Go Along #474

Thunderdome Pond Walking
Two days in a row I walk the pond
Only to return ulcered
Anxious
And shell-shocked

Dozens of two wheeled monsters
Howling demonically as they go
Complete with rub on tattoos
And Popeye cigarettes

Family gangs
Walking shoulder to shoulder
Slowly with blackened sunglassed eyes
Sending you scurrying into the brush

Roaring mechanical mayhem
Passing you by and spinning back towards
Blowing dust clouds where grass should be
Its screams drown out the frightened birds

Gulls launching attacks at you
Over running the ducks
Demanding those bread crumbs
Of which I have none




WEDNESDAY…
--- Work is ok. Lunch with Sarah is Thai food and hear from mom and dad… they’re coming for the end of August. I’ll have some family help with the preparing to move. Good parents they are.

THURSDAY…
--- Dayshift alone. I’m really tired up until lunch… eat with Kiyomi and then perk up for the rest of the day.
--- Physio after work. And a shwarma for supper after that. A nap and some TV for the night.

FRIDAY…
--- Night shift. Fairly quiet evening and not much going on before it either.

SATURDAY…
--- Some baseball on TV in the afternoon with my nap to go with it. Night shift again… this time me alone.

SUNDAY…
--- Stop to see the new place on the way home from work. Bed by about 7:00… up at 11:00… baseball on TV and a walk of the pond followed by movie night. The Commitments is a classic.

MONDAY…
--- Walk to Farm Boy for groceries. Play some video games and watch a ball game in the evening. Organize some old bills for shredding as well.

TUESDAY…
--- Physio, laundry, and more shredding of old bills and such. A walk in the evening is busy. That pond, at the wrong times, is like Thunder Dome. Skateboarders, biking kids, dogs, families walking shoulder to shoulder… it felt like I was going to be run over, bitten, or shoved into the bushes.