Saturday, April 16, 2005

I was at school. I had just lost my job, my home and my car. There was this booth set up in the hall. You could win a couple thousand dollars for drinking a few cans of pop really fast. They were closing the booth and could take only one more contestant. This loud, rich girl I was standing next to pushed me over and yelled, "me me me!" She sat at the booth, drank the pop and won the money. I climbed to my feet and muttured, "Survival of the fittest? If she is the fittest, let me die."

I walked to the vending machine, reached into my pocket and found no change. All I had were these tiny, plastic animals: penguins and seals and polar bears. I tried to shove them into the coin hole on the machine. They got stuck. I realized I was late for class.



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