I\u2019ve been cooling my heels in the Tire Shop in town getting a flat tire fixed. Sitting here in the communal waiting room I got pulled into the crackerbarrel talk with a few fellow customers when the palaver turned to government excess, corporate greed, pharmaceutical warnings, health care costs, pretty much the gamut of modern grievances in this dystopian world we now live in.<\/p>\n
Did YOU know, for instance, that the government was dropping chemicals into the atmosphere to halt global warming? No? Or that John Wayne\u2019s lung cancer was caused by nuclear testing outside Las Vegas where he rode his horse? You could see the mushroom clouds from your hotel room on the Strip.<\/p>\n
Did you know that arthritis was the result of wheat harvested after being sprayed with Roundup, that gluten intolerance was actually chemical poisoning? No, you hadn\u2019t heard that? Did you realize the EPA Superfund cleanup of the Duwamish River in Seattle got hauled a few miles north and dumped off Magnolia? You didn\u2019t?<\/p>\n
I bet you also didn\u2019t know the oyster farms up north were so polluted they couldn\u2019t grow baby oysters. No? Actually, it\u2019s partly true, but not because of pollution, it\u2019s because of acidification of the ocean. Bet you the \u2018chemtrail\u2019 is causing it. Along with celiac disease, irritable bowel syndrome, autism and presidential neurosis. <\/p>\n
My tire repair didn\u2019t take long, but enough time to cover some fairly major conspiracies, from government experiments on us rodents to \u2018Deep State\u2019 cabals. My new friends didn\u2019t trust anybody or anything. Although \u2026 they did like their health care which cost way too much, but it was better than what Trump and his pals were going to do. If I had said I liked rainbows, they\u2019d have told me they were oil sheens reflecting off the atmospheric poisons, a sure sign I would have rheumatoid arthritis in a month. The world was a mess and its leaders were evil. We were doomed, that was pretty much the gist of things. One guy said he was spending his grocery money to get the struts on his Honda fixed, had to do all four, cost a fortune. Damn car companies anyway! Damn tire place too! <\/p>\n
My tire guy saved me finally, said he\u2019d put my spare back up under the truck bed if I showed him where I\u2019d hidden the gizmo that hoisted it up. I said I\u2019d do it when I got home but he said he might as well do it, save me crawling on my back later. When the spare was in place, I asked what I owed. \u201cOn the house,\u201d he said. \u201cNo charge, sir.\u201d You know and I knew too after listening to my new pals in the waiting room, some kind of tire conspiracy was at work. I\u2019m still trying to figure out what their game is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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