OM45GE - Posted - 01/19/2020:  03:52:32

is taking the day off.

However, the way my luck has been going

Rossanne - Posted - 01/19/2020:  15:39:50

I'll have to pray extra hard
on way to the city church..

OM45GE - Posted - 01/19/2020:  18:27:35

where they’re convinced that I’m beyond redemption.

I’m fairly certain

Bill Rogers - Posted - 01/19/2020:  20:11:03

I’ll need to find my spiritual solace elsewhere.



And my Sundays will be spent watching football and

Edited by - Bill Rogers on 01/19/2020 20:11:40

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/19/2020:  22:55:39

phoning my bookie.

Someone gave me a tip

OM45GE - Posted - 01/20/2020:  03:27:11

when I served them their breakfast.

It wasn’t much, but

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 01/20/2020:  05:07:35

it was enough to buy flip flops.

When they realized I didn't work at the diner

OM45GE - Posted - 01/20/2020:  10:41:42

they chased me out into the alley with obviously ill will.

I wasn’t sure who Will was or what his illness was, but

Bill Rogers - Posted - 01/20/2020:  11:16:57

I was glad to make it through the alley, where I disappeared into the crowd.

They seemed to be headed en masse for

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/20/2020:  13:53:25

Sunday mass at Friar Tuck’s outdoor BBQ and Salvation Headquarters.

For a mere $1,000

Rossanne - Posted - 01/20/2020:  14:03:13

..you can buy a train ticket for the overnite sleeper to Tim- buck too!..
Later at the motel Tuck said...

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 01/20/2020:  16:04:58

I can retire off my millions.

It was then I realized I was dreaming and woke up in the back of the pickup and

Bill Rogers - Posted - 01/20/2020:  17:32:02

heard the sound of the crusher beginning its daily work.

So I skedaddled out of the pickup bed and headed

OM45GE - Posted - 01/21/2020:  03:14:49

back home hoping for forgiveness.

If they

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/21/2020:  04:15:22

scrape my bloodied carcass off my driveway, make sure my grave is kept clean.

And don’t bother

OM45GE - Posted - 01/21/2020:  04:18:56

telling me that would make a great song title.

I don’t want my demise used

Rossanne - Posted - 01/21/2020:  09:41:36

as a joke...
later at the requiem for sad jokes..

OM45GE - Posted - 01/21/2020:  11:30:49

we all struggled with whether to laugh or cry.

Doing both was

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/21/2020:  12:03:15

a trick I learned using smoke & mirrors.

My days with the traveling circus

Bill Rogers - Posted - 01/21/2020:  12:17:27

Introduced me to some strange and sometimes wonderful things.

For instance, did you know that

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 01/21/2020:  19:03:18

sometimes your watch reflection can blind a trapeze artist.



I was mid-flight

Edited by - Peter Vipulis on 01/21/2020 19:03:42

OM45GE - Posted - 01/22/2020:  03:28:14

when that happened to me.

After my one and a half somersault I missed the catchers hands and

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/22/2020:  03:39:42

tumbled down into the lion’s den.

They looked at me scornfully

OM45GE - Posted - 01/22/2020:  03:41:47

clearly thinking my trapeze skills left a lot to be desired.

You could almost hear them

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 01/22/2020:  10:03:40

roar with laughter as they walked away.

I began to question all the lion stereotypes when the audience

OM45GE - Posted - 01/22/2020:  11:12:47

started chanting something about “lunch meat”.

I thought it was strange that

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 01/22/2020:  12:08:09

we traveled to a town with shrunken heads and pots of boiling water.

I put 2 and 2 together

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/22/2020:  12:10:39

I was considered a hunk of Spam.

A bllodlusting audience

Bill Rogers - Posted - 01/22/2020:  12:20:34

that hearkened back to the days of the Roman Coliseum.

So I slowly walked

OM45GE - Posted - 01/22/2020:  13:41:35

out of the ring and left the big top without looking back. 

I should have looked back though, because suddenly 

Edited by - OM45GE on 01/22/2020 13:43:40

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 01/22/2020:  16:39:10

a tiger grabbed my manager who was about to give me my paycheck.

I looked down at the shoe he left behind, inside

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/22/2020:  16:47:52

of which was lodged a 1935 ten dollar bill.

I decided to pay for the coffin

OM45GE - Posted - 01/22/2020:  17:43:26

until I found out what they cost.

Then I went to the saloon

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 01/22/2020:  20:35:17

and showed the bartender the shoe.

It was a round on the house, everyone cheered and toasted

Bill Rogers - Posted - 01/22/2020:  21:19:59

either to my late manager or the tiger.

Then, to my surprise,

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/22/2020:  23:26:17

the tarbender dropped dead on the spot.

Poor old Spot

Rossanne - Posted - 01/23/2020:  00:07:46

..tarbender was a clever guy and an ace deceptionist, a double secret agent working for...

later back at HQ...

OM45GE - Posted - 01/23/2020:  03:16:21

I turned in my resignation.

My manager said she

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 01/23/2020:  07:50:57

had enough of the drunken rants when tarbender called in his status.

But I was now in danger because he was also working for

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/23/2020:  08:10:13

a guy by the name of “Knuckles” Calhoun.

I’ll pack my grip

OM45GE - Posted - 01/23/2020:  11:17:31

and hop the next freight train out of here.

Hopefully it will be headed somewhere

Bill Rogers - Posted - 01/23/2020:  11:17:42

and take me a long ocean trip.

That is if I can find

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/23/2020:  11:18:55

a long ocean.

My world atlas

OM45GE - Posted - 01/23/2020:  11:27:31

is so out of date, it still shows sailing ships falling off the edges.

Nonetheless, I still rely on it for

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 01/23/2020:  12:58:13

admission to the flat earth society and find a warm bed.

Some guy told me he had a rocket

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/23/2020:  14:02:45

launcher in his basement.

So I slept down there one night for security

Peter Vipulis - Posted - 01/23/2020:  15:45:14

and felt a draft.

There was a long crudely dug tunnel, well lit

KyBanjo - Posted - 01/23/2020:  16:10:26

that ended up going out to the street.

they also found

OM45GE - Posted - 01/23/2020:  18:05:55

three nickels and a dime.

I was hoping