Off to the very daunting Dempster Highway! But first, I needed some reassurance b/c the Dempster is a very dangerous highway. So I before leaving town I stopped at one of the visitor centers (I won't name the center) for reassurance.
As I entered the center, Staggering Sue came wobbling out from a back room. "Hi!" she screamed in a too-loud and too-cheerful voice. "What can I do for ya so early in the morning? Didja go to the music festival last night?"
As she got closer, her name changed from Staggering Sue to Kerosene Kate. Raging alcoholics sometimes aren't aware that they reek like kerosene from their breath and their pores. Sometimes they are just so far into their disease that they don't care. Been there.
Nevertheless, Staggering Sue-Kerosene Kate gave me the reassurance I was looking for while her eyes seemingly rolled like whirlygigs: "Oh, sure, honey. You go run the Dempster. You'll be fine."
Clinging to such reliable reassurance, off I drove....
No photos with this post to protect the ill.
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