The Dream
I was driving in my car (Silver 2005 Nissan Sentra) with Roy, my boss (36 year old Indian fella with thick English Accent, think perfect king's English). For some reason we were driving to Nebraska to meet with a potential client (deal I was trying to close). Roy was on the phone the entire time and I don't think we said two words to each other. We arrived in Nebraska in record time and met with the prospective client and invited them to a rock concert in town.
The concert was great! I think it was the Rolling Stones or Bruce, something really memorable. The concert was packed and it was tough to find the exit, but we finally did find the exit and we spoke with the client and got the deal closed (which was great!).
As we headed back I tried speaking with Roy, but he was back on the phone again. I remember thinking to myself (in my dream) "wow this guy is on the phone all the time, how in the hell am I supposed to talk to him about the deal or what we need to do?"
We made it all the way back to the Bay and I was exhausted. Driving on 80 I could feel my eyelids getting heavy. I had to fight to keep my eyes open. I dozed off a few times....and snapped back. I managed to hold it together and all the while Roy is chatting away on his phone, not really paying attention or caring what was going on.
The next exit is the one I want ... *POP* everything becomes very clear and I am completely alert.
My exit get closer and closer. I see it I merge over. Everything is going relly well. All of a sudden ther are two HUGE redwood trees in front of me reaching high into the sky. Their roots have formed two huge mounds over the exit. I am going too fast to stop, but I am in my little Nissan Sentra!
I plow ahead, close my eyes and brace myself for the impact.There is no impact.I open my eyes and coast over the two huge sets of roots...amazing; I didn't think I could do it!!!
I was so amazed that I pulled over and got out of the car to stare at the roots I just climbed. Roy gets out and continues talking as he walks over to the sidewalk and leans against the chain link fence. He didn’t notice a single thing, he is just talking.
I turn and look at my Sentra and see that it is rolling into traffic!!! I run to stop it from hitting cars and begin to slow it down. All the cars are stopped at the light and my car rolls to a stop and lightly bumps a VW Vanagon.
At this point I am completely mortified because I had overcome so much to get to this point and it was all ruined because I had forgotten to pay attention to the car after I had parked it.
I went up to the side door of the Vanagon and it slid open.
In a cloud of mist a tiny woman with wispy hair (Think LOTR's Gollum) and chubby little fingers, cackled like an old witch. She said "you have fallen into my trap!"
She reached into her pocket and pulled out a letter. She explained "I have devised a plan in which each of the 5 people on this letter will pay me money. And now I have you!" (So to refresh, a tiny person is telling me about a pyramid scheme)
"You will pay me one thousand dollars!"
Just then an even smaller person with the same wispy hair went running behind her out one door and into another.I glance over at Roy thinking maybe he might be willing to help, but he is still on the phone and hasn't seen a single thing.
I woke up.
The concert was great! I think it was the Rolling Stones or Bruce, something really memorable. The concert was packed and it was tough to find the exit, but we finally did find the exit and we spoke with the client and got the deal closed (which was great!).
As we headed back I tried speaking with Roy, but he was back on the phone again. I remember thinking to myself (in my dream) "wow this guy is on the phone all the time, how in the hell am I supposed to talk to him about the deal or what we need to do?"
We made it all the way back to the Bay and I was exhausted. Driving on 80 I could feel my eyelids getting heavy. I had to fight to keep my eyes open. I dozed off a few times....and snapped back. I managed to hold it together and all the while Roy is chatting away on his phone, not really paying attention or caring what was going on.
The next exit is the one I want ... *POP* everything becomes very clear and I am completely alert.
My exit get closer and closer. I see it I merge over. Everything is going relly well. All of a sudden ther are two HUGE redwood trees in front of me reaching high into the sky. Their roots have formed two huge mounds over the exit. I am going too fast to stop, but I am in my little Nissan Sentra!
I plow ahead, close my eyes and brace myself for the impact.There is no impact.I open my eyes and coast over the two huge sets of roots...amazing; I didn't think I could do it!!!
I was so amazed that I pulled over and got out of the car to stare at the roots I just climbed. Roy gets out and continues talking as he walks over to the sidewalk and leans against the chain link fence. He didn’t notice a single thing, he is just talking.
I turn and look at my Sentra and see that it is rolling into traffic!!! I run to stop it from hitting cars and begin to slow it down. All the cars are stopped at the light and my car rolls to a stop and lightly bumps a VW Vanagon.
At this point I am completely mortified because I had overcome so much to get to this point and it was all ruined because I had forgotten to pay attention to the car after I had parked it.
I went up to the side door of the Vanagon and it slid open.
In a cloud of mist a tiny woman with wispy hair (Think LOTR's Gollum) and chubby little fingers, cackled like an old witch. She said "you have fallen into my trap!"
She reached into her pocket and pulled out a letter. She explained "I have devised a plan in which each of the 5 people on this letter will pay me money. And now I have you!" (So to refresh, a tiny person is telling me about a pyramid scheme)
"You will pay me one thousand dollars!"
Just then an even smaller person with the same wispy hair went running behind her out one door and into another.I glance over at Roy thinking maybe he might be willing to help, but he is still on the phone and hasn't seen a single thing.
I woke up.
posted by Isaac at 12:28 PM
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