The Inverted Reverse Takeaway
I high stepped to my third floor room to retrieve a sharp knife, a bowl, and a plate. The pretty Australian asked for them to cut her pineapple, and I obliged. I try and run the steps at the hotel with a purpose. I am forced to run them at least 20x per day, and figured I might as well design challenges, make art, and find form.
The internet was down at the hotel, but my hunches were telling me all of town was down. I told the other pretty Australian that I would run to Dan’s Deluxe to see if he was down. If he was down, town was down.
I spotted an oversized Hacky Sack on the ground. With the bottom of my left bare foot, I rolled it to the top of my right bare foot. I then lifted it into the air and balanced back on my left. I rested it there for maybe 5 seconds. From there, I flicked it and stalled it on the back of my neck. I straightened up and let it run down my back. I blindly tried to hit it with my achilles, and missed. The moment surely went unnoticed.
I ran barefoot to Dan’s. The yummy mummy was sitting in the cafe with her laptop open. I asked if she was online. She said No. Her six year old bi-lingual surfer grom son asked me to play ping pong with him. I said No. I ran back to the hotel barefoot to report that the internet was down everywhere.
Two hours later, I bounced over to Dan’s again. This time to borrow a couple of books, pre-audition for my music gig, and eat some lunch. Mummy and the kid were still there. After I ordered, I asked the six year old if he still wanted to play ping-pong. He said Yes. I gave him five minutes because he was more interested in whacking the ball and kicking it. I showed the kid the floating ball trick. Mummy never looked up once to watch us play or nothin’. She wasn’t checking me out him out us out it out. She wasn’t smiling at the joy I was bringing her kid. She probably thought that the only reason I was playing with her kid was so that she would notice and think it was so cute. Is it that obvious?
I finished up my food, and tried to skizzle out of there unnoticed. Just as I was one foot into the dirt, Yummy picked her head up and said, “Thanks for That.” I turned to my right, tipped my cap and said, “Anytime Baby..”