Bob Bitchin
A Homeless Man and Old Blanket So the other day Jody & I are landlocked in a traffic jam that could only be found in Los Angeles. Bumper to bumper cars, moving what seems to be backwards, as we are trying to get to a party in a neighborhood we haven’t visited in 20 years or so. Now I gotta tell ya, I was not in the best of moods. My attitude had been left on the boat about 20 miles behind me. As I sat there I vented about all the little things that had gone wrong that day. Poor Jody sat there, forced by circumstances beyond her control, to listen to my tirade of bitching about problems we’d hit on our refit, people not paying their bills, and how we hadn’t had a day off in over five months. She did have the option to abandon ship (or vehicle in this instance), but the area we were in was not conducive to an evening stroll. Not if you meant to keep your 281
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