Monday, October 10, 2011
Travels With Charley Day 5
Steinbeck and Charley continue their voyage north toward Maine. On the way they encounter a woman with a troublesome Pomeranian who bites Steinbeck. Steinbeck has also constructed a genius way to clean his clothes that requires little to no effort. He stops for a night at a motel-type place and begins talking with the waitress. the waitress is pessimistic to say the least. Steinbeck says that a sad soul will kill weeks before any gem could. Despite getting lost several times and a less than stellar encounter with a Maine state trooper, Steinbeck makes it to Deer Isle where he meets George.
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Yes...there's something about a miserable person who can kill even the best of days. Although...the annoyingly always-cheerful ones don't do much for me, either. My college roommate was the eternally peppy type -- everything was "just so NEAT!" I found myself wanting to go out of my way to irritate her, just to get a non-chipper reaction out of her.
ReplyDeleteI'm probably too much like that waitress.