Granpa's Dying
“I’ll call you when I finish driving, I don’t like to talk in the car.” I was parked in my parents’ driveway, but that doesn’t make my statement any less true. I collected myself, pulled out, and headed towards the freeway. I enjoy talking on the phone with very few people. Who is interesting enough to hold my attention with just their words? I realize the irony, but I will try to be. It’s fun to think of most people in public as playing characters . Wow, this mom at Starbucks makes a real convincing bitch. Then I’ll give her a score like 8.5/10, She’s kind of overdoing it, no one has that little self-awareness. If she could dial it back a little? Super convincing. How does anyone pass the ripe age of 20 and not come to the realization that there are other people in the world. 7 billion of them in fact—each complete with their own pet peeves, myths and kinks. I’m an infinitesimally small part of the universe. A part of the whole—the universe moves on wit...