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The Parking Lot Duck-Head-Another True Tom Tale

I live in a trailer park in upstate N.Y. proud, dumb white trailer trash I is don't really know well my neighbors to me that is just as well you'll understand far better when you hear the tale I'll tell across from my small single trailer looms a large expensive double but the weird guy living there seems potential trouble he has this most odd fetish this obsession I find odd he seems very territorial like his brain was made of sod he has, in front of his homesite 5 marked parking spaces you see he has but one little car and never has any company he posted a big sign, "No Parking!!" that's just what it did say but weirder by far I tell you and this I can't figure out to this day he parks his little car, in an angle so oblique so he covers at least 3 spots now I know just what it seems he does really seek and it's so dumb I laughed so hard, I grew weak he's "protecting" his useless ground which he doesn't own at all it kind'a makes me laugh at such moronic gall he's very like a dog so I wonder if he might urinate around these spots perhaps in the middle of the night the thought, oh my!, that'd be a scary sight! "marking his territory" that's really public space to me he seems buffoonish a disgrace to the human race I watch him through my window sometimes when he comes out this little round weasel clown-man makes you want to shout "hey, duck-head! why not a barricade? and keep out even more? and maybe provide you with some shade? or maybe a fence and toll booth and armed guards to keep away those who are a parking space thief? and think just how it would provide you with much, much more relief? "cause you worry someone will park in one of "your spots" I guess this fear is your strong belief.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2007




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