Starbucks afternoon

 I can tell a story and it usually comes out pretty good. People really respond and many times they urge me to write the story down. It's not that I don't believe these people it's just that I can't really believe the story is worth writing down or I can't seem to put the words down on paper so to speak. I had coffee with my good friend Lori this afternoon and we yammered on for about 2 hours or so in the late afternoon. During that time I told Lori of a story that I had with my old friend Geno d. He was with the folks I went through Rehabilitation with years and years ago he was just about a year older than I was we both broke our necks we were both quadriplegics and I ended up spending a lot of time with this guy over the next couple of years. There is one point in time when Geno who had money from a major lawsuit, actually bought a car. He was living in the long-term care facility, a nursing home, because he had divorced his family but that's a whole nother story. Anyway, he wanted to take the car out for a drive and of course neither of us have licenses nor did the car have hand controls but all I remember is Gene talking the orderly into loading this up into the car and take it off. I was driving I had an old cane or stick or something that we used to drive the foot pedals of the car. I went slow and we traversed from the nursing home up a major Boise Street to a drive-in and Back Again. I still cannot believe this really happened, but it did. Anyway the story really comes out better when I'm babbling about it when I start thinking about it I and believe I'm missing important events or items to the story and finally just sort of give up on the whole concept. It's a shame I've had a lot of great experiences and if I really did have the skill in the will I could change everything to fiction then I guess it wouldn't really matter what I wrote are how the valid the events in that addresses and settings are they would be whatever I wanted them to be. I guess that's the difference between the wannabe writer and the great writer is those who are able to get the story on and out and on paper. Sadly that's why I'm not a great writer or probably never will be at this point in life points of greatness have gone past and I'm just happy to settle for what's available The Daily Grind.

We had coffee at a Starbucks coffee shop and it's really not as nice as I would like one to be. It's pretty sterile and kind of noisy and I worry that Lori will not be able to understand me very well because of all the external noise and Echoes and such. But you seem to get everything I was saying today and that's a good thing. We can make coffee last quite a long time.