Dad’s Backyard Used Car Lot – Thoughts from February 1 and 3, 2023

February 1, 2023

We’re already one month into 2023 and I haven’t mistakenly written 2022 once. I don’t know if that’s even a thing anymore. People used to write checks and other things that required writing out the date, but we hardly have to write anything down these days, let alone the date. I would say it’s a lost art, but not wasting so much paper is worth the degradation in people’s handwriting. These Thoughts papers actually help me remember what the date is. My work also helps me remember the date because I have multiple schedules I need to check each day. Me and knowing the date are besties.

I’m waiting right now at my car’s dealer getting work done on my car. The other day I was talking with someone and telling him about my car. He said he never buys new cars because he likes to work on them himself and new cars are harder and harder to work on. I told him about the car lot of used cars that my dad had in our backyard. When one broke down, he would take it to his favorite mechanic and drive another one. I think this is why I have only bought new cars. None of the vehicles worked that well, and I always tired of worrying that one I was driving would breakdown on the road. I didn’t get to say this to the person because someone interrupted our conversation. Once again, this Thoughts paper lets me finish that conversation.

I don’t like most action films. The parts that are supposed to excite me just bore me. The character interactions I’m interested in are usually short and filled with the same action dialogue as every other action movie. Most of the time, I don’t like the actors appearing in action films. They often appear only in action films. Some of them appear in non-action films and it’s apparent why they do mostly action films. My least favorite parts of the films are the violence, chase scenes, and the cliché dialog. I’m sure I just named what most people like about them. That most of those people are men just adds to my reasons for disliking them.

February 3, 2023

I’m feeling trapped right now. I’m trapped by the vacation Patti and I are taking because there is no time between me working and being on vacation. Trying to find out specifics from Patti only lead to her sending me weird text messages I couldn’t make sense of. I questioned her about them and she cleared some information up but not enough. At one point, she called me and asked weird questions about things I wasn’t saying. Eventually, she figured out it was a message from someone else. I could tell as soon as I heard her she’d been drinking. I told her that maybe things would make more sense if she didn’t drink so early. The real problem is how much she drinks. She’ll probably be asleep when I get home and won’t answer when I call her to tell her I’m on my way home. I wish I had someone to talk to, but I don’t. Patti is the only one I can really talk to and I can’t talk to her about this. My only escape is being able to talk in this Thoughts paper. Sometimes, that’s just not enough.