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 Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:56 am
It had all started out so innocently...
"Dammit! You! Get back here!"
Well. Rather, it started out with a bad day getting worse. A broken watch, on the eve of an important meeting...
"Youch! Hey! That hurt!"
Glumly I stared at that watch. A timex that took a licking, but eventually stopped ticking. I was more than annoyed, I was BETRAYED. But despite all of that, it had appeared that I was in luck. There was a shop nearby that was selling all sorts of time-keeping gadgets. Entering in, I was a bit taken aback by how empty it all was.
"No! Not that! Noooooo!"
But the prices were clearly marked. After calling a few times, I threw the money down, left a card with my name and address and a contact number, and ran out the door. The watches all showed that I was about to be late!
"Oz! I'm going to...."
That was how it started. An innocent purchase. The road to hell was paved with such things, I think. If so, I took the fast track...
The watch functioned erratically. But I was too busy to return it. And now...
"OzymanDIAS!"
Now I'd be willing to pay the STORE to take it BACK!
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 8:58 am
Where was I? Oh yes, the discussion about innocence. About the decisions that are made daily that should make our lives less...and not more complicated. Should.
What a beautiful concept.
But not us. Nope. We humans are a breed that truly loves to jump from the fire into the furnace. We revel in making a bad situation worse. Even if we didn't intend for it to happen. Even if we bemon that it DOES happen.
Take me for instance. A regular Jane. I work, I come home, I sleep, and I wake up the next morning with the sinking feeling that I am going to do all the same things over again in more or less the same order.
You have to find some sort of wry comfort in being a worker ant.
Or at least I would have...had it not been for Oz.
Not the wonderful wizard of Oz...more like "Ozzfest" type of Oz. Hurricane Oz. The Tsunami Oz.
Ozymandias. The Time Bandit from Hell.
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