So, hell, I meditate

What else are you going to do at nine in the morning while you wait on an inspection? Right, so I start mediating in lotus position in a plastic lawn chair on the concrete strip in front of the oil place. Two minutes in and the guy next to me offers the sports page. Kind gesture, or malevolent, I couldn’t tell which. No thank you I said, twice.

Three minutes later I am retreived. I am overly polite amongst the accusatory glares. I laugh when I pull into the road.

First as tragedy, then as farce

A pile of sticks, contrary to intuition, are not a good mobile device stand.

I use the plural verb because, soon, you realize, a pile is not a coherent unit.