June 13, 2008

No wind on this fine Friday the 13th. However, the cellophane top from a cigarette package did find its way into my front yard. The yellow band around the thing reads “60 cents off.” Ok, so I couldn’t find the damn cent symbol so that quote is 100% accurate. 60 cents off; I wonder if the purchaser put the savings into his or her lung transplant fund. In my next book (due out by the end of the year), is a story about why I do not smoke and how that behavior was scared right the hell out of me. Yes, I once held the stick of smoky death in my mouth, when I was 9.