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Mickey Z
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Saturday, April 08, 2006
The graveyard shift
I hope this isn’t a dead Storytelling Saturday
Once upon a time...
Q. Why do they have to build walls around the cemetery?
A. Because people are dying to get in
I liked that joke a lot as a kid but I ended up spending lots of time in my local graveyard (is every shift at the cemetery called the graveyard shift?). I dated an Irish girl…barely five-foot tall. She walked into the video store where I worked...she was wearing very short black shorts. I got her number from the membership files and called (smooth, huh?). Her dad earned his paycheck running things at the local graveyard. Eventually, they allowed him to move the family into a house in the cemetery…rent free. Odd perk but you learn to accept perks without much question.
The house was castle-like…large stones looming over the headstones. Lots of room inside (lots more outside). I’d meet my tiny Irish lass at the local graveyard. The guys would tease me about seeing my Chevy sedan parked outside the gates (people dying to get in, remember). I had to laugh along with them…odd situation but you learn to take dating quirks as they come.
One night, my tiny Irish lass listened to one of my schemes or rants and announced she had a theory that each night my body slept but my brain stayed awake…thinking of new stuff. When my body woke, all that new stuff started pouring out of my mouth until I fell asleep again the next night. A funny though to have right outside the local graveyard.
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