It's our last night at our lovely abode at the Desert Terrace RV Park. We will soon join the millions of apartment residers. I am looking forward to going to the restroom at 2 am in a bathroom, not squatting outside our trailer. I am looking forward to cooking more than tomato soup, spaghetti and Trix. I am looking forward to laying down on our newly carpeted floor, even though I won't have any furniture.
Last night Crazy Doug stopped by. He was wearing a wedding dress and actually looked quite good in it; he's thin enough to pull something like that off. This morning he was taking his cat Boo-Boo for a walk in an orange stripped jumpsuit, purple knee socks and plastic heels.He told me that some friends of his gave him Boo-Boo back in the 70's; I figure that was the last time Doug had a sane thought.
Our neighbor, the one who is married to the rather voluminous woman, told me I should probably avoid Doug; he's weird. This from a person who probably hasn't brushed his teeth since the 70's and is married to a 300 pound woman with purple hair who wears sheer clothing and trust me, you do not want to see this woman's flesh.
I entered a WalMart last night for the first time in seven years; it was a cultural shock. I spent $200 on two plastic chairs, four towels, pans, silver ware, a toaster, two plates and bowls and air mattresses to sleep on. I think there were more people in WalMart than the total population of Grand County. It's a large, cavernous, noisy place full of overweight, broke and uneducated people all buying cheap stuff. What was I doing there? Buying cheap stuff. Let's face it, WalMart is "inexpensive" and you just can't be a snob about that. Hopefully I'll never have to return, although the sweet, harried checkout girl told me I should come the first week of the month when everybody has just been paid -she said it's crazier...I'm not sure why she thinks I would want to see that.
The library here is not as good as the one in Granby. They only let me check out eight items at a time. They send me emails when stuff is overdue. They charge me if stuff is overdue. They don't have a very good movie selection and THEY DO NOT ALPHABETIZE their movies...what the hell is that all about? I ask a different person everyday about that and they give me the same vague, completely unsatisfying answer of "We all kind of know where stuff is." KINDA? I said, "What if you have a request for a movie, how do you find it? "We all kind of know where stuff is." KINDA? My friends Julie and Tess at the Granby Library know how much this lack of anality will upset me. One time Julie decided to arrange the non-fiction DVDs by subject and I started arranging them by color; I figured both arrangements made about the same amount of sense. I'm thinking of writing a complaint but I'm not sure I want to be banned from the library quite yet. Since living in the tent trailer it's the only place to go to spread out my mail on a table, it's air-conditioned and until I get a computer it's the only place to write my ever popular blog.
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