Wednesday, July 09, 2003
(1:15 AM) | Anonymous:
In Dreams
OK.
I just had this dream (Yeah..I slept from 9pm-12am..feel free to file a suit.) in which I was playing gin rummy with my cat, Noah, or "Mr. No-No" as I sometimes call him in that gibberish "Oh you want to go outside, do you Mr. No No..Hmmm? Mr. No No? Do You?" type voice.
The trick of it was this: He doesn't have opposable thumbs! THUS, he could not hold the cards in his paw, and had to lay his hand right out in front of him, faute de mieux. I kept stomping him, and he kept meowing bitterly..because you don't have to have mastered the english language, or even the human sound cache to be a sore loser.
Immediately after this dream, I woke up to find Noah sleeping beside me, and I was apparently unconsciously petting him. He wanted nothing to do with me as soon as we both woke up, and was very insistent and stubborn about going outside.
Obviously, this was no dream, I'm pretty sure the cat drugged me in an attempt to win the upper hand. He's just mad because I routinely reduce him to shreds, and I don't even know the rules for Gin Rummy..at all. Yet, even in my foggy, semi-delirious state I kept mannaging to knock when he had about 53 points in "dead wood" securing the victory once again.
The lesson to be learned, is that if we aren't fair with our opponents, they'll get very bitter and leave.
Also: Throwing obscure french phrases you've picked up into nonsensical articles about your dreams that no one else will care for does not make them any more dignified.
Let's all try to be better people today.
-Robb
"Now, if we do go to war, I can assure you it will not be another Vietnam. Because we have learned well the simple lesson of Vietnam: Stay out of Vietnam!"
- Dana Carvey, playing George Bush Sr. on SNL, 1991
