Heya Readers,
(and I know you are at there– thanks for reading by the way. Leave comments below if you have something to say).
On the previous post I gave you a few images that looks really strickingly similar to the moon. Heres the story behind them.
In all honesty, I’ve already received encouraging feedback. However, I am not certain that will always be the case, depending on what I say. Again in my attempt to be honest with myself and everyone I might have to dance a little bit.
So, last year both Christopher and I had experienced a bad Christmas. This was single-highhandedly the most depressing Christmases you can imagine. I remember spending a lot of my time in out apartment. No real decorations or exchanging of gifts had occurred because we had changed living situations in Salt Lake City three times already things were not quite stable. Both of us had gone through two jobs— and they were meager jobs. Consequentially, we were really coming to the end of our rope with what sort of mishaps or bad-luck we could endure. Now, since my hours were cut back at the job I had, meant that I could no longer afford our really cheap rent.
I believe it was on the day of Christmas that I spent much of my time repairing an imac that was given to us. After it could not be fixed by her friend the Computer Guru of the Trigger House. (more on the Trigger House later with media). The story goes over this imac that if it could be fixed, it could be had for FREE! Well, considering we only had my netbook, I wanted the damn thing. Having the item in my possession, I found out that the previous attempts by another to repair the Mac had all but made it really difficult for me to repair the thing. I muscled my way though it anyway, identifying that the fans do not cool those earlier models very efficiently. After pumping the fan speeds to a relatively high, and noisy level, the thing ran like a dream!
I guess you could just call it the natural order of things, by my acquaintance who had gifted us the computer (because I fixed it) demanded its immediate return. My response was a little less than eloquent. I believe I re-told her how I got it and if she wanted to pay for the repairs she could have it back–which was refused— so I basically told her to fuck off.
Now why everyone thinks the police are their friends, I’ll never know, but she threatened to go that route. With that in mind I was NOT going to allow myself to be relieved of this imac or what it could provide me, so I saved the documentation proving I fixed it and quickly sold it off to the highest bidder, so that I couldn’t be relieved of any benefit of my efforts without compensation. Despite the fact I made it clearly known that we were no longer friends, this girl continued to talk to Christopher and act as a wedge between him and I. (She was not the first to do this, nor the last) Everyone it seemed either wanted to be with Christopher himself, get Christopher away from me, or hook Christopher up with a friend. You can imagine how after a while I might get really pissed off. In response to these many attempts I demanded solidarity in our relationship and wanted him to never show any kind of discord between us in public. Either way, this girl, whom we shall call Amanda (I think that every girl should be Amanda), knowing what a poor situation we were in, made attempts to get Christopher to leave me to live with her, another guy and a little twink with whom Christopher was supposedly supposed to get together. This kid was really young, was rumored to be just recently cleaned up from methamphetamines, arms torn up as if they went through a cotton gin and was from Pocatello, Idaho.—!?! Of course after discovering this I was like WTF?!
Lacking the money to pay the rent and the money to leave, Christopher and I had to think of a plan: Good old Craigslist. I am going to allow myself to go off on another tangent. If ever there was a resource for those in need it was the internet. More specifically, that resource is Craigslist. At one point or another we were in need and posted for something as little as someone getting us food and low and behold we were given $400 dollars right off the bat, no questions asked, no favors needed, and no introductions needed. This kind of human kindness is really a hallmark of some of the kindness that Christopher and I discovered all over America.
You never know how much good there is out there in people until you are dead broke and in need of assistance. In all candor, it really is heartwarming and inspiring. Well such kindness was crucial to finding our way to Seattle.
We in order to leave quickly we arranged for a ride out to Seattle. It was in Seattle that we were to start all over, again— with a friend of mine. So we arrange for a ride on Craigslist and are fortunate enough after a couple days to have found one going to Portland, Oregon.
On our way: It was a couple days after the New Year that a guy named Rob, in similar age as Christopher and I, who had come to our apartment to pick us up. A couple comments on escape. It had only been when Christopher and I had left the Trigger House that we had left in an honorable and halfway respectable manner. The two or three previous escapes had included, eviction, a drunken pedophile with guns, and escaping a wholesome home where we had taken care of two of my favorite kids. This was another one of the times where it seemed as if we had to quickly steal away like thieves in the night. As we had quietly packed up the night before, as soon as Rob came we quickly loaded up his Ford Explorer and made our way to Portland. From Portland Christopher and I would decide how to make our way to Seattle.
As fortune might have it, we were not able to decide much. About two hours outside of the vehicle hit some ice and was quickly recovered. That would have been alright if not about three seconds later we hit more ice, over which snow, had fallen and the vehicle which was going at about 40-50 mph, without loosing any speed, went completely sideways and impacted with the start of a guard-rail, flipping three times and rolling before coming to a halt on the rocky outcropping about twenty to thirty yards from the road.
A kindly woman named Diane, who was behind us and driving a Chrysler-300 (and who has a damn sexy daughter) witnessed the whole accident. She quickly stopped, called authorities and tried to see if we were alright. I would not have known it, but we were all out cold for about five minutes. Fearing we were dead she kept calling out to us and eventually I woke up to find the explorer upside-down, with me dangling from the seat belt like a puppet. Fearing for both Christopher and Robert I asked if everyone was alright myself (I couldn’t hear Diane). I heard no immediate response.
With dread growing inside me, I called out again–only more frantically. I was not in the position to turn and see Christopher, I could see Rob, who appeared to be asleep. Without another answer I yelled. Then movement from both Robert and then they both said they were unhurt. I was OK, but a little bit stuck–and a little bit pumped with adrenaline. I started struggling frantically to get out of the car and had to calm myself before I wound up actually injuring myself.
Without too much difficulty Rob forced one of the front doors open. Luckily Christopher had not been impaled by the skis in the back. He made his way to the front and out of the kicked door. Struggling to free myself with a little more patients I was able to crawl out of the Explorer. Looking at the sight outside, was one of the most disheartening sights I’ve ever seen: keepsakes, clothes, and our dwindling possessions strung out all over the road…
(to be continued)
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