Highway Boards and Icecream

Date: 9/16/2022

I am riding my skateboard up a multi-lane highway but it's not going as fast as it should. Stops dead at the end of each ki k like it has no wheels, which it doesn't. Justa thin piece of red plastic, but I'm still expecting more acceleration. Just a few more kicks...but nothing. The drivers in my lane behind me are pissef, trying to pass but the lanes are full. I pick up my plastic and step off the highway. There is a variety store and O look for something better to use as a skateboard. The thin middle aged woman who runs the store is a mean gossip. She insults strangers coming in and the locals gathering around her laugh. Today, she is mocking people from Thornhill. She is on the radio, too. I am going to leave when I see a second counter where a quiet man is fixing electronics. He also has a til. I am attracted to a bright red, plastic zipper case, like a lens case for a camera I set it down on the man's counter and he starts to ring it in. I am happy that his til works and say, "Just a minute." I should examine the red case better - not buy impulsively. I open the hard plastic case and inside is a universal power cord with multiple attachable ends for cell phones etc. It is red and black. Very cool. Also, the case will make a better skateboard. I decide to buy an ice cream, too, even though O shouldn't. I open the freezer which is all frosted and filled with Popsicles. It's winter so the stuff is old. I dig in and find an ice cream cone but it has freezer burn. I will take it anyway.