In their natural habitat, in daylight. Mingling in colors of different stores, outside the store. These carts want to leave, but can’t. So they wait for the right opportunity to escape, and in the meantime, pretend that they’re just waiting to be returned to the store.
Dueling for space.
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My dad loves classic cars the way I love cats, except he doesn’t coo at them and ask their name and scratch their ears. And there are a ton of nice cars still driving around because there’s no rust.
For reasons of laziness, I don’t end up taking tons of pictures of cars. But I should. [...]
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Once. I’ve been swimming in the ocean once.
I’ve been to the coast five times now (we’re not counting San Francisco trips, which were not trips to visit the ocean) and have been swimming once, in Santa Cruz. And even that was an effort of will: the water was still quite cold.
I’ve got to figure out [...]
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In the order they occur to me.
1. Finding out that I’m really not good enough. I have this fear that I’ve always been told that I’m smart and funny, but that I’m not either. There’s always someone smarter, someone more brilliant. And I’m just getting older.
2. Getting older is part of my fear. Part of [...]
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