Beck had a bad bad bad strange encounter in the localish pitstop. You can get gas, pizza, bait, (a tater log) a dirty magazine, or an Icee. No bathroom tho, sorry go out back they accommodatingly say when folks ask for the restroom key

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So …we stopped on the way home from dialysis.
The Li’l-wrekker said “hurry up, I hate this place”
She’s such a kill-joy😳

You might ask what I wanted from there, no, don’t ask.

As I was walking in a very small woman asked me if I had a dollar. I’m a push over. I gave her a dollar.

I came out with my purchase. And she stopped me again. Getting alittle too close for my comfort. I kept backing up. She kept coming forward towards me.
I finally said, kinda high pitched, what do you want?, I already gave you a a dollar"

She sez "Yes mam, I have a card for you. Now I didn’t wanna touch it, but I took it, ran to the car chunked my stuff in, got in and locked the door. I said “go”.
The Li’l-wrekker said what was that. I told her I didn’t know. She looked at the card.
You’re just not gonna believe what the card I bought for a buck was.

It was a few strange looking markings, a picture of a firery hell like place.
On the back it said: You have just been granted a blessing from a Voodoo princess. Your life will change in the next few weeks.

This is weird. We were just talking a couple days ago about how unlucky I was.
Mid-daughter said (she lived in New Orleans a few years) what you need is Voodoo blessing.

Crikey!
Yep Imma die now.

I’m just SO unlucky.

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Jeez, this thread title takes up a third of my screen when viewing on my phone.

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I shortened it. It seems you can only have 255 characters in the thread title.

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Hey, maybe it’s changing for the better! You know, voodoo priestess paying it forward and all that.

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Thx, I meant priestess.

I’m looking for someone to show up to give it to.
I don’t want it
:scream:

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Mid-daughter says there’s all kinds rules about destroying it. And I don’t wanna burn it or something.

She’s calling a friend from New Orleans to find out what to do.

I’m sorry, I ain’t performing any rituals. Not here. I’m already cursed by living on a holy Indian burial ground/ black hole thingy.

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It’s not a boo boo
What that voodoo
Can easily do do
For lucky new you you!

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You know, Hoagy Carmichael still holds the record for longest title.

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So what dirty magazine did you buy?

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Archie comics. I have a thing for redheads.

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I think you should pitch this to Netflix as the beginnings of a story idea for a movie. I would watch it. :grin:

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Only if Reese Witherspoon plays me.:face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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Wanna borrow my mojo hand?

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No bathroom tho, sorry go out back they accommodatingly say when folks ask for the restroom key

Did you in fact check out what was out back? I remember restrooms which you entered from outside the building. And gas stations often kept the restrooms unlocked.

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No public restrooms. Big sign on the door.
There’s a patch of woods out back. I’m thinking lots of men have pee’d on those trees.

And a few road broke women.

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Yes yes I do

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Beck, blessing/curse from a voodoo preistess whilst living on an indian burial ground/blackhole thingy is how you get your superpower(s).

Or your soul gets knawed by an eldritch demon from some nether dimension, sometimes these things can be a crap shoot.

You should definitely pitch it to netflix, the superpowers version, kinda tilt the table in your favor, so to speak.

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Sounds like the beginning of an X-Files episode. Better call Scully.

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Goddamn! Good call! That has bugged me for ages! I reckon…

She’s too busy with the Red Right Hand from the Man with the Long Black Coat

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Since finding out how tall you are I have always pictured you as Allison Janney…