Austin The Powerless--Chapter 2

          Austin The Powerless---Chapter 2
     Contains Some Mild Sexual References--Adult Readers Only


                      A Fictional Story---Read Chapter 1 First

In college, Austin was hardly a date-every-night playboy. However, he was never a candidate for the wall flower of the year award. Sometimes he displayed a sarcastic, maybe even cruel, sense of humor. He had three girls who he dated when not in college. They lived in close proximately of each other in his home county. To fully understand what happened you must understand that this was in the day of typewriters, carbon paper, and thin onion skin paper. He sought to terminate his relationship with the trio of girls and have some fun at the same time. The syrupy love letter was made in three copies and the space after the “My most precious” line was left blank. Prior to sending the letters he filled in the name of each girl in ball point pen. Surely, the three would get the joke and realize he was breaking up with them.

Feeling girlfriend free, he was shocked to get a letter from one of the “carbon copy” recipients in which she stated she had shown her letter to a girl who had also received a carbon copy love letter from this same college Romeo. The dump all three at once plan worked; however, one girl wrote him to say she never wanted to see him again. Wonder why?

It was every college boy’s dream; Austin was in the college library at a study table and the girl on the other side removed one of her shoes and slowly started rubbing his leg with her now shoeless foot. BINGO! A frantic, short romance followed. What the relationship lacked in duration it was more than off-set by intensity. Austin told a friend in his dorm that Miss Footsy was his best kisser up to that point! He later saw her in a restaurant with a much older man. He theorized each got what they wanted!

One of his college summer vacation romances was coming to an end and the girlfriend threw every insult imaginable at Austin, including the worst breakup line he ever heard, “And my sister doesn’t like you either!” It is one thing to have a girl dump you, but something else again for her sister to pile on as well!

Austin should have probably considered himself lucky because a high school friend once told him that when he called it quits with a long-time girlfriend, her mother did everything but hit him!

Somehow Austin was made aware of the rumored, all-time break up story. A couple of very intense high school sweethearts had a big league breakup and the girl ran crying into her house and her grandfather came out with a shotgun. Fearing death or serious injury, the fellow evaded the protective gun wielder and found undetected refuge by crawling under a car! This account redefines “Any port in a storm!” 


Glenn <><
Just West of Yesterday


     WATCH FOR CHAPTER 3---COMING SOON 

 

STILL IMPRESSED

North Polar Stars


ANYONE WITH A CAMERA WHERE THE SHUTTER CAN BE LEFT OPEN CAN MAKE THEIR OWN NEAT PHOTOS !


SEEK A VERY DARK LOCATION, CENTER CAMERA ON NORTH STAR (POLARIS)
OPEN SHUTTER FOR ABOUT ONE HOUR!

SEND ME YOUR PICS AND I'LL POST THEM---IF YOU INCLUDE A NOTE GIVING ME PERMISSION TO DO SO.

The area around the North Star looks like this 365/24/7. Obviously, we cannot see the stars in the daytime. 

GLENN <><

JUST WEST OF YESTERDAY

WHERE PARALLEL LINES CROSS! SAY WHAT??

"Infinity" is where parallel lines cross---Kelso Franklin

Prior to high school, I had never read or heard the word “Infinity.” It was in Mr. Franklin’s Algebra I class, during my freshman year, I first encountered the concept of Infinity. In my sophomore year I took Geometry along with other sophomores and several juniors and seniors.  (Here’s a long overdue confession---I really enjoyed taking classes with upper classman to see if I could equal or supersede their additional year of maturity . I’ll let others report the results.)

With lyrics of Avicii’s hit song playing in my brain--- “ When I am older and I am wiser”----here’s the answer from the Internet:

“In summary, then: in usual geometry, parallel lines do not meet. There is no such thing as infinity, and it is wrong to say that parallel lines meet at infinity.

However, you can construct other geometric systems, whose "points" include not only the points of familiar geometry (describable as coordinate pairs (x,y)), but also other objects. These other objects can be constructed in various ways, as described in the discussion of projective geometry. In these other geometric systems, parallel lines may meet at a "point at infinity". Whether this is one single point or different points for different classes of parallel lines, depends on the particular geometric system you are considering.”  Toronto School of Math 


Now maybe I can go back to trying to beat the checks to the bank.



GLENN <><

JUST WEST OF YESTERDAY

    

AUSTIN THE POWERLESS---CHAPTER 1

  
                    AUSTIN THE POWERLESS

                                       Chapter 1

     (Contains some mild sexual references for adult readers only)

                                              a fictional Work

He died a natural death---if there is such a thing. Prior to his ICU flat line, he certainly did not live a natural or normal life.

Austin Corrington grew up in a family that Ozzie and Harriet would have envied. In school, Austin was a Jeopardy multi-day winner in waiting.

On the hardwood and the manicured infield he was a good, not great, player. Playing beyond high school never entered his mind. His athletic ability was restricted by his slender build and below average upper body strength. Charles Atlas would have loved him.

The ivy-covered walls of his Land Grant University surrounded more students than the entire population of his home county. Once more he excelled in the classroom. Upon graduation, he entered the United States Air Force. There he was considered one of the up and coming “Below the Zone” hot prospects that warranted promotion and worthy of top assignments ahead of his contemporaries.

So far so good, so natural and so Austin! However, during his entire life he would be considered in the bottom quartile in the arena of social interaction. His social life was as anemic as his upper body strength. He readily admitted he ate too many cheese and peanut butter crackers from a nearby Gulf gas station and drank too many Cokes growing up. On an asphalt- melting late August day, he was working for a farmer that provided a tube of ice cold, eight ounce, glass bottles of Coke. Austin bragged he consumed 18 that day!

A brief summary of his dating experiences may cast some much needed light on his social development trajectory. He first kissed a girl when he was 16, she was 15.

On the night of the Junior-Senior Prom, Austin had a date with a girl who came very close to sexually assaulting him. He quickly took her home and was in his home at 11pm. Later in life, he would discover that girls sexually matured much earlier than boys. His mother had never told him that bit of this biological trivia.

The aggressive behavior of another girl almost made him a candidate for the SVU television program. Her bold attack was only blunted when he repeatedly told her he had no intention of marrying her. He never dated either of these two girls again. Years later he saw both of these much, much older women at a high school reunion.  He said a silent thanksgiving prayer that he did not marry either one!


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Glenn <><
Just West of Yesterday

"I Don't Need No Rockin' Chair"----George Jones

YOU MIGHT BE AN OLD MAN IF..............   1. you get to eat first at the family reunion.   2. the Garbage Men call you "Mister."   3. attractive women open doors for you.   4. Boy Scouts flip a coin to see who leads you across  the street.   5. your portable medicine safe can be used as a weapon.   6. teenagers sing Christmas Carols on your front yard before stealing your decorations.   7. grand children bait your fishing hook.   8. you win Gabby Hayes Look-a-Like contest.   9. your neighbor's kids think you are a Wal-Mart Greeter.   10. the "Blue Hair" widow in the church choir looks HOT.   Glenn <>< Just West of Yesterday