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I'm on a roll

Posted by mofembot Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:01:00 GMT

Yes, indeed, I am on a roll, if posting two days in a row counts as a roll.

I had a strange dream the night of December 30–31. As with most dreams, I don’t remember too much of it, although this one involved a sort of near-vertical tramway or roller-coaster kind of conveyance to the top of a mountain. Riding it was fun (at least going down). To take it up, however, one had to take an elevator to get to the “ride” platform. It was while waiting for this elevator on the lower level that I ended up speaking to Condoleezza Rice. (No, her guest appearance did not automatically place this dream into the nightmare category.)

She had separated herself from a group of people (stage right) who had been jeering her (no great surprise there) and was standing in front of the middle elevator of the bank of three. I was stage left and moving toward the middle elevator anyway, and here was my chance to tell her what I thought of BushCo and national security and foreign policy (lack thereof) in particular. What did I say?

“Dr. Rice,” I said as we entered the elevator together (I am known for my politeness on the boards that I frequent). She turned toward me, and before I could launch into a well-deserved critique, asked me if I knew what the parking rates were.

I did not know. Ignorance but rarely stops me from providing an answer, however, so as we stepped off the elevator on the upper floor, I hazarded a guess that she (as someone parked in long-term parking) would be paying in the neighborhood of $2.00 an hour. She looked relieved, and then moved off into the swirling Dream Medium. I tried to follow her, but somehow could not (it is apparently against the rules). I ended up spending the rest of my dream trying to get aboard the Up tramway, sliding off of the track….

Thinking back, I wonder if my customary politeness and more particularly my desire to always have an answer at the ready deprived me of the chance to light into “Dr. Rice” for the Bush administration’s astonishing and infuriating malfeasance. I was willing to let a bogus, fact-free “answer” take the place of righteous indignation.

On the other hand, I was probably completely wrong about the parking rates, which were likely much higher. Ha! Ha! Vengeance was mine after all!