It all started literally as soon as I got into the airport. After a 16-hour flight in which drinks are handed out every two hours at the most, you tend to emerge a little bit parched. I decided to get myself a bottle of water from a vending machine at the airport.
$2.00, for fucking water! that same water costs about 25 cents in China.
I then had to get some frames for the prints that I brought home. I go to the frame shop with them, the cost to frame two pictures?
$84.67, and that's with a supposed discount! The pictures are just 6x6 and themselves we're about the equivalent of $9!
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Eventually, I met up with my family and after a short reunion, we left. After exchanging pleasantries and a few stories on the ride back, their line of questioning and conversation eventually drifted to...
the movies and TV shows that they were into. Talking on the phone to my 17 year old cousin? About a minute of 'how are you?' and then
Video games and TV shows.
Homeboy also mentions in passing that he
finally has a girlfriend, and I was later tipped off by my uncle that they are fucking, but
no word on that, just being told about how awesome the Skyrim DLCs, The Walking Dead and Sons of Anarchy are.
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The 17th was one of the first truly spring-like days (so I hear), so instead of taking the bus like a lazy person, I walked the 4 km back to where I am staying from the frame shop. It was the middle of the day and not exactly downtown, so you can't expect the talent to be spectac, but of the 5 girls in my age range (18-28),
two were fatties, one may have been average but with her hair pulled back and wearing uggs and pajamas she looked like shit, one might have been hot but she had a nose and a labret piercing and was wearing 'my babydaddy popped me in the eye!' sunglasses and the one who was attractive (not just bangable, she was fine)? She was Asian-Canadian (heh...) and yapping on her smartphone.
The girl I fucked earlier in the week, a
24 year old with big tits who I last fucked almost two years ago, had invited me to her place for dinner. I arrive 20 minutes late, but
she's not there so I message her and I get a text that she's running a little late and 'to wait' for her. She gets there ten minutes later, lets me in and after depositing her things and pouring out some wine
lunges on me after maybe two minutes of 'catching up'. After the sex I sat down wanting, nay, expecting a home-cooked meal...
but she is 'tired and doesn't feel like cooking, can we just get a pizza?'...
She's a little pissed that I didn't get her anything from my trip...
We chilled out and watched
Zero Dark Thirty, which while admittedly not a bad flick, well,
"You know what we ultra-liberals say, it's okay to lie as long as the ends justify the means; as long as it gets women feeling good enough about themselves to open up those purses and spend spend spend, it's okay to obfuscate history and say 'a woman killed Osama'...it might not be necessarily true*, but the ends justify the means..."
(* - I sure as shit don't believe it...)
Later, after
I hit it again she reveals that she has been 'seeing someone' for a few months but that she'll blow him off if I call or email her.
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I'm saving the best for last. This morning, I drove out to get a coffee. I go through the drive-through, get my coffee and leave. I pull onto the road, drive a bit, open it and take a sip, and what's that, BLUE AND RED LIGHTS BEHIND ME!? I'm not drunk, my brake-lights work and my seat belt is on, but apparently the police in my area are cracking down on 'distracted drivers'...
that's right, in addition to not being able to smoke with kids in car, not listen to music too loud and not go over 50 in a school zone even on a Sunday, now you can get pulled over for taking a sip of coffee. Luckily, it's a recent law and THANK GOD my honest face and silver tongue have remained intact and I was able to talk myself into just a warning, but I mean shit; now you can't even drink coffee in your car? Do they have any idea how many thousands of people will be late for work because of this draconian bullshit? When I was a wage slave a few years ago EVERY DAMN DAY I would leave in my car with a mug of coffee, what is the world coming to!?
But it's not all bad; I have assembled some of the benefits the West definitely has.
- The air and water are clean.
- It isn't overcrowded to high hell.
- The internet is uncensored and bullet-fast.
- When you order chicken at a restaurant, you know that you're getting chicken and not a pigeon.
- People speak English.
- Instant hot water, central heating and clothes dryers.
- Sluts.
Even still, I'm counting the days until I can go somewhere again.