TASK #14
I had a ringing sensation in my ears. And my left eye was twitching. And then there was this pain in my lower back. I was at my desk and no one happened to be standing behind me, so I googled tinnitus, and it explained what it was, which is exactly what I had–a ringing sensation
in my ears, and it said that one could be caused by three things: stress, too much caffeine, and alcohol.
I am a salesman. I swim in stress. I drink coffee like I have stock in Starbucks, and I imbibe. Mainly beer, and not IPA beer, because I don’t care to talk about beer like it’s wine. Occasionally I drink hard alcohol, and I’ve been known to drink both in the same evening,
though my wife takes umbrage when I do, because the last time I mixed alcohols I peed in our closet, which she did not find amusing. Nor did I, frankly, because I peed on my dress shoes.
The eye twitch went away after a few minutes, and the pain in my lower back went away when I got in the car to go home. I always feel a lot better when I’m in my car driving home.
That night I sat in the backyard on the picnic bench. It was cold but not too bad, and I sat and thought about work, and how it was giving me twitches, back pain and a ringing in my ear.
I decided I needed to play hooky. My wife calls it a “personal health day” when she ditches work, but I prefer playing hooky.
I called my boss and said that I was sick and I was going to stay home and sleep it off. He didn’t ask what kind of sick I was, but I had practiced a terrific rasp and it sounded pretty good.
My wife just shook her head disdainfully, then left for work. I went to the mall and saw a movie, then went to a park and just sat and looked at the sky. Then I had an idea. I went to the hardware store and bought some different tape–black electric tape, blue edging tape, yellow packing tape, then drove over to this parking sign that sits on a street that I drive each day to and from work, and I wrapped the tape all up and down the sign pole (picture below).
Now I see it every day when I go to work and drive home, and it makes me feel good.
TASK:
Play hooky. And write about your day.
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