Tuesday, August 23, 2011

My Virginia Earthquake Experience

Today was the day of the Quake. I felt it in my bones. I sensed it ahead of time... like a dog.

I want to get in the car. It only happened an hour from where I sit.

I want to stand at the epicenter:

I want to throw bottles of top shelf liquor into it.
I want to run across it.
I want want to yell at it, "Not today tectonic"
I want to put on my party pants and eat nachos next to it.
I want to sip a cool beverage chilled with frozen grapes and laugh at it.
I want to burn a shake weight in effigy above it.
I want to kiss a nurse near it.
I want to read a book entitled, "The Time I Read a Book Next To The Epicenter" by it.
I want to build some stilts and look at it from ten feet high.
I want to get a silver spoon and taste it.
I want to make a mud pit and wade through it.
I want to buy a dog that was born near it.
I want to give away all of my possessions to the person nearest it.

It is a day of quakspiration.




7 comments:

  1. Glad you survived. Aren't you guys supposed to be in Florida?

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  2. put on my party pants and eat nachos next to it...

    I envision you laughing as you write each of these and it makes me smile

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  3. . . . whatever . . . randy says he with you on kissing the nurse . . .

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  4. Deeply moving - the stilts make perfect sense and for you and me they only need to be 4 feet high.

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  5. I bought a dog that was born near the epicenter but it is . . . frustrating.

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  6. I guess I should have said 16feet high... I've always wanted 10 foot stilts. Good catch Lee!

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