My Cycling Plan

You don’t know the hold our mothers have on us.-Junot Diaz
THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO

Twenty-five years ago today:

March 28, 1987
Saturday

I washed my car and did some domestic chores around the house. I intended on getting my oil changed at OIL CHANGERS but the line was too long, so I decided to leave. I didn’t have the patience to wait when I knew I could be bike riding.

I enjoyed some cereal with mom’s company. It was a beautiful springtime day and I went ahead with my cycling plan. The Alameda South Shore beach was too damn crowded and people kept popping up on the bike path which frustrated me.

I rode my bike home and drove my car to Mom and Dad’s house again. Sherri and Ashley were there. I brought cheese, crackers and juice. Tony and Lauren came by as well. My niece, Lauren, is becoming a true-to-life cutie.

I ended up staying with ma and pa for the remainder of the afternoon and the evening. I watched the TV-Mini Series NUTCRACKER: MONEY, MADNESS and MURDER with them. It was starring Lee Remick and Tate Donovan. Lee Remick played a woman named Frances Schreuder (as in shrewder) who was a sociopathic socialite, plotting her father’s murder. It was a great dramatic thriller.

This is coming from down the line, across the river…DFU (Don’t Fuck Up).
-FAIR GAME
2010 motion-picture
Starring Naomi Watts