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| The Meaning of Life. |
| 01.12.05 (7:52 pm) [edit] |
For those of you who think about the meaning of life and what not, I'll have you know that it rests on a plaque in a prize machine at the T/A station just off I-5 exit 278 in Oregon.
No really. It is.
You see, here's where I stood, on the outside of the glass, reading this half-buried plaque, trying to figure out the second half. I mean, this is some heavy shit I'm giving you right now. [i]I know where the meaning of life rests.[/i] And for a mere fifty cents, you can perhaps even obtain it, if you're good with those stupid claw prize machine. I pumped three bucks in that glorious holder of truth before two things happened: 1) I knocked the plaque flat, momentarily shifting the gravel and releasing the most coveted of all answers, and 2) I ran out of money.
But consider that from a moment. This actually says scores about the American citizen. [i]The meaning of life is reduced to a cheap prize in a truck stop.[/i] Not that the meaning itself was bad or false, it may have been the best interpretation of the real meaning of life that I've ever seen scripted. But that it was buried, intentionally, by someone who was seriously concealing the information in order to lure people into playing a game. I laughed.
I have this other thing that I've been meaning to talk about, but this isn't something that you follow with a story like that. This is something that will leave some smiling, some disenfranchised and some thinking. You don't need to worry about my personal stuff just yet.
But you know what I would have done with that plaque? I would have mounted it.
So everyone can see.
--Avarice
[i]I'm broken and colder than hell.[/i]
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posted by: misskendy (reply)
post date: 01.13.05 (4:54 am)
WOw great post!! Maybe I should visit the flying J for some enlightenment...
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