Get a job
I think this morning marks the first time I've ever updated my website in a dream.
In the dream I had been shopping at a grocery store, and as I was paying, I was having difficulty with entering my PIN on the debit card reader (I sort of remember it more by pattern than by the actual digits, but on this keypad the numbers were arranged differently). While I struggled with the PIN, I heard a couple at the next aisle speaking contemptuously about a woman who had gotten a job. Presumably they saw me looking at them strangely, so the woman clarified, "Oh, it's not what it sounds like. You know — we long-time BC people say that when someone has separated or divorced. 'She got a job.'"
"Oh!" I said. "I wouldn't have guessed that. You have to admit that's still pretty funny, though."
"I guess it is a weird saying," she responded.
"Yeah," I said. "Imagine a man saying to his friend, 'Yeah, well, I don't know what it was. All of a sudden, one week, I would call her during the day and she wouldn't answer. I just couldn't love a woman who does that.'"
"Ha ha. 'And suddenly she had all this money of her own — the nerve!'"
"'And you know what? She was dressing nicer, too! I'll have none of that.'"
As I walked away from the store a few minutes later, I thought, I definitely need to write about that. Even after I woke up, it seemed wrong not to.
In the dream I had been shopping at a grocery store, and as I was paying, I was having difficulty with entering my PIN on the debit card reader (I sort of remember it more by pattern than by the actual digits, but on this keypad the numbers were arranged differently). While I struggled with the PIN, I heard a couple at the next aisle speaking contemptuously about a woman who had gotten a job. Presumably they saw me looking at them strangely, so the woman clarified, "Oh, it's not what it sounds like. You know — we long-time BC people say that when someone has separated or divorced. 'She got a job.'"
"Oh!" I said. "I wouldn't have guessed that. You have to admit that's still pretty funny, though."
"I guess it is a weird saying," she responded.
"Yeah," I said. "Imagine a man saying to his friend, 'Yeah, well, I don't know what it was. All of a sudden, one week, I would call her during the day and she wouldn't answer. I just couldn't love a woman who does that.'"
"Ha ha. 'And suddenly she had all this money of her own — the nerve!'"
"'And you know what? She was dressing nicer, too! I'll have none of that.'"
As I walked away from the store a few minutes later, I thought, I definitely need to write about that. Even after I woke up, it seemed wrong not to.