Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Dirty Check Chashing

My sister Coleen and I went to a check cashing place together. It was a really dirty place. We didn't want to wait in line so we watched two TVs that were hanging from the ceiling. They were showing a news report of an earthquake that happened somewhere in South America.

We got tired of standing there watching TV, so we went back into the waiting room. It reminded me of the lobby of the hotel the Kurgan stayed at in Highlander. I got the comfy chair, or what would have been the comfy chair if it hadn't been ripped to shreds, with stuffing poking out and holes going down to the wood frame in places. Coleen got a folding chair that was a weird combination of a plain metal folding chair, a beach chair, and those canvas folding chairs people always take to outdoor events.

In front of us was the door to the bathroom, and to our right was a bed. There were two homeless guys on the bed. One was sitting up in bed, with a watch cap pulled down over his eyes. The other one was curled up under the covers at the foot of the bed. I was talking to the watch cap guy about the guy under the covers, and watch cap said the guy's name was Frankenstein. I thought that was odd because Frankenstein wasn't the guy who was there last time Coleen and I went to the place. Then Frankenstein poked his head out from under the covers. He had curly, light brown hair and a full beard.

I looked back and Coleen was gone. I leaned over and looked into the bathroom. Coleen was on the toilet in underwear and socks, but it looked like some badly manipulated video putting Coleen's head on someone else's body. She stood up and jumped to grab an overhead pipe so she could swing over an especially dirty part of the bathroom floor.

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