These memories can't wait.
I feel like there is an inexhaustible supply of events from my life that assert themselves in my memory with a force inversely proportional to a reasonable measure of their importance.
Example: Several years ago I had a neighbor that I traveled with socially on occasion who owned a video rental store. On some occasion during that period of time, probably at least 5 years ago, I had a conversation with my older brother about the customers of that store who would sometimes be waiting for it to open in the late morning - specifically, those who were there to rent adult movies.
This recollection was triggered while I was showering, because I was squeezing a dab of shampoo, and flashed back to my brother's pantomiming these customers squeezing lubricant into their palms, moving the bottle in a slow, circular motion, and gazing intently on the store, waiting for the door to open.
It cracked me the hell up then, and it cracks me the hell up now.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
I'm wide awake on memories
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When I think of the situations I've been in where I crack a huge smile, trying to keep from laughing, just because I'd been reminded of something funny. These memories may sometimes seem relatively unimportant, but I'll take the joy they bring despite any accompanying discomfort. Having said that, I'd just thank my lucky stars that it wasn't waiting in line at the video store at God-knows-what-thirty that reminded me.
Some painful, some fun, some fuzzy, some clear, some false.
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