Someone once said, "It's a man's world!" "Real men don't get all twisted in the head and absorbed with their feelings like you women!" So said an, obviously male, genius on Facebook one day. "Allow me to retort," said I. "Of course, we men don't get all twisted in the head and absorbed with our feelings like women! And for this," I added, sarcastically, "We're thanking our very lucky stars! We have life so much better..." Because we drink, we slink, we shrink, we stink, chug, mug, drug, shrug, play the thug, act so smug, gamble, gambol, amble, ramble, shamble, scamble, fumble, mumble, bumble, rumble, stumble, scramble... We wage, drage, engage, enrage, assuage, set the stage to rant and rage, founder, flounder, say we found her, astound her, try to be profounder, chunder, sunder, blunder, bottle thunder, steal some plunder, rip lives asunder, pander, gander, mander, slander, can't stand her, in ...
WORKDAY Scene One: The Parking Lot of the County Adult Probation Office: Fade in... Friday morning, just before eight am, I steer my 1993 Dodge Minvan into the parking lot of the Pinal County Adult Probation Department, adjacent to the building where I work, stopping in my assigned space. It's right next to the door, and has a sign that says "Handicapped Parking Only." I don't get out of the van, affectionately named “VannaDoom,” right away. As is my usual habit, I have one more cigarette, and finish my coffee before going in to work. This is usually the time that I reflect upon my life. Which isn't turning out the way I expected. Or hoped. Or planned. For example, I never thought that I'd have an assigned parking disabled parking space. Or any reason to need one. Or get one. Except for the Chief Probation Officer, Dave S, nobody in the department had an assigned parking space. Certainly not a Deputy Adult Probation Officer, like me. A Le...