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It was the air freshener (srsly)
Today I had another interesting pickup.
I had a pickup over in the Eastown area tonight so I headed over to the pickup on Ethel street. I pulled up to the house and there was several people outside on the porch steps drinking and smoking pot (from the smell of it.) The girl sauntered outside with the swagger of a 100 shots of liquor and up to my Jeep. She struggled to open the door to the point that I almost got out to open the door for her. She gets in, and immediately she asks about my car freshener and tells me if she throws up it’s because of that and not because she’s drunk, while she’s frantically rolling the window down as quickly as possible. Like, she literally said that. So i told her what kind it was as I pulled it out of the vent grill and set it aside on the odd chance it was really true. She then informs me that yes, she’s definitely allergic to that brand and she’s definitely going to puke because of it. I started off towards her house because it wasn’t very far away, only about 5 minutes. She spent the entire time assuring me that she wasn’t drunk and that it was the air fresher, even after I assured her I had removed it.
Sure, Girl.
Thankfully we arrived puke free and my puke free streak holds.
As I sit here and type this I look outside and it’s so rainy outside it almost reminds me of spring. However, it’s not spring, and we’re about to go into winter. Which reminds me that I hate winter. Not so much because I hate snow, but because I hate how people drive here like they’ve never seen snow before. There seems to be no middle ground ever when it comes to winter drivers around here. But also, i hate the snow. That being said, in my opinion, there’s three basic categories of winter drivers in Michigan.
I alluded to the fact that I was thinking about making a “political” blog post on Facebook a couple of days ago. There’s so much on my mind these days as I get more and more into politics as I get older. The problem is, I worry that my views will piss people off on both sides of the political spectrum. There’s very few subjects that I can’t sit down and at least come to some sort of middle ground on as far as politics go, but I feel that many people, while they say they are the same way, as soon as the tables are turned they seem to go crazy defending their view and rule out all other peoples views. During the election I had a person accuse me of being a bigot while they themselves were telling me my opinion didn’t matter. That’s supposed to be one of the cornerstones of the United States. A melting pot of opinions, and religions and people. I always seem to totter back and forth on where i land in everything. I’ve voted left, and I’ve voted right. People seem so quick to lose their tempers these days instead of being able to have a meaningful conversation. I’m not even sure where I want to start with all of this. There’s so much going on in Washington these days. 
Today I said goodbye. I said goodbye to a friend who I’ve never been to the movies with. A friend I’ve never gone to the park with. Never went cruising around with. We’d never gone to the bar together. Never been to church together. Never met in person. Never had dinner together. Never had any meal together. But we’ve spent easily hundreds of hours “together”. We’ve spent countless hours chatting it up. Countless hours running people over in Grand Theft Auto V. Countless hours shooting ships in Elite: Dangerous. We’d spent countless hours in Skype. Ken was a regular guest of the Podcast / Stream that I’m part of. Many games we’d played together, many hours of deep chat about life, wives, kids, work, and everything else between. 