02/03/04
Isn't It Ironic?

This is just a general dream snippet I remember from last night.

In it, it seemed to be late morning or early afternoon, overcast outside, and I went into the utility room (I seemed to be home alone) and noticed a pickup truck outside the windows on the side road. It might have been white with neon orange on it. I think I heard noises and I knew they had come to disconnect our cable for nonpayment! "Nuts!" I thought. Nobody was home but me, so the bill could not be paid at the door; we would have to be without cable for at least a few days, as they are very slow to come turn it back on even after they are paid. :(

Then I thought over the last time something had been disconnected for nonpayment, how I might have saved the day if I had only summoned up the courage to go to the door and pay the bill myself. Maybe I could do that now? Did I have enough money? I suspected the overdue bill would be around $100. I think I had about that much. But I had to hurry. So I ran to my room and started rifling through the various bills I had lying on my little stand where I keep my money in real life, and started picking them all up. A wad here, a bill there, they were all scattered rather than in one big wad, but I kept scooping them all up, hoping I had enough.

I gathered what surely must have been around $100, but then saw more money sitting there, and started picking that up as well. And picking more up. And picking MORE up. I was surprised by now--how much money DID I have here, after all? Surely more than $100! Maybe even as much as $300! I was impressed by my unexpected wealth--certainly I could pay that outstanding bill, and we would not be shut off. In real life I'm very phobic of answering the door or paying bills, but that fear was nowhere near as great as my annoyance at no cable would be in the dream, so I finally got all my scattered money in my hands and went running back out to the utility room...

...just in time to see the cable truck go driving off. I had spent SO much time gathering all my money to pay the bill that he had disconnected us, and gone on his way! I gawked at the departing truck and then yelled, "NUTS!" in frustration. >_<



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