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the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Vancouver, 2002.07.01

Here's a new one. Someone called me at about 3:30 in the morning, so I got up and tried to answer it.

There was no one there, so I turned off the phone and went back to bed. This morning I get up, and there's a message marked 'urgent' on my phone. Some drunken twerp called my number and left a long message asking me to come 'round to so-and-so address to have someone towed from his parking spot. He told me which car he wanted moved, and where to find his, so that it could be moved from its current illegal position to 'his spot'. I hope he's sober, now, and realizes his mistake (or not, and has a ticked and/or towed car).

rand()m quote

My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.

—Indira Gandhi