Deep Thoughts

Whenever I mow the lawn deep thoughts swim around in my brain. It takes me a good hour to do it and after fifteen minutes or so i get bored... then my mind travels. Tonight it took me back to 1998, Stacey and I were living in Oshawa and she was working with Lorraine in Mississauga. She forced me to attend a christmas party at a place called Jonny O's in Brampton. We arrived and I was surprised to see the resturant was closed for everyone but us. The night was good and everyone was super nice but I felt kind of out classed. Staceys boss was telling me he had just pre ordered a porche boxter another lady was a flight attendant who had just flew in from somewhere and was heading back out shortly. They asked me about my job and I told them I drove truck which i was kind of embarassed about. They drank scotch and wine and I was drinking beer. They looked like money and Stacey and I barely had enough to put gas in the car to get there. After the meal and some drinks Stacey and I ended up a one of the reps house named Peter. He had a beautiful house and we were downstairs drinking with him and his cat. After a few whiskeys we talked and he told us a story about how things went down with his life. He had put ten or twelve years in at CP or CN and then they had a massive restucture and he was laid off. To make things better his wife had divorced him and he blew threw his severance to the point where he was'nt sure if he could feed both himself and the cat. His friend (Staceys boss) then offered him a job and he had built his way back out of the gutter. His story was amazing but he was not telling us because he was looking for sympathy, he told us because he saw our wide eyes and empty wallets and said just keep working hard and it will come to you. Tonight I was out front mowing away and I admired at our house, then the two fine automobiles dressed in black in the driveway. Then I saw the smokin hot redhead in window waving at me, my demon child growing in her belly, my best friend Jack laying on the steps watching my every move... How does life get any better than this? Then the lawn was cut end of story.