Forced Labor

I went in to the place where I worked a few hours early, and when I got there my boss showed me that he had some new mattresses on sale there. He asked if I would help him move them towards the front of the store and I did, but then he asked me to keep working. In fact, he told me all sorts of things that he wanted me to do immediately... but since I wasn't scheduled to start work for another few hours, I told him that I couldn't do it.

At this point he got mad and started yelling at me and telling me that I was fired and to get out of the store. I started shouting back at him and grabbed my aluminum bat and headed towards the office where the managers and store owners were located.

I went in to all the rooms, but I couldn't find anyone with the authority to overrule my asshole boss, so I smashed my bat across someone's desk and told them that they had better find someone or there was going to be trouble. Right after that everyone ran out of the building and closed the store, leaving me sitting there alone waiting for anyone to handle this issue.

Country Thrift Store

I was riding my bike along a long stretch of highway out in the country, when I came upon a huge chunk of pavement that wasn't quite done yet. All of the cars were being filtered into the opposite lanes while the construction crews continued working on the new section of road.

Off to the left there was a big metal pole building that turned out to be a thrift store, however nobody could get to it from the highway because the exit ramp had not been completed yet. Of course since I was riding a bike it was no problem for me to ride along the dirt where the road was going to be, up over a half-assembled bridges, and up to the building.

When I got there the people greeted me like they knew me. Another customer came up to me and asked if they sold microwave ovens there, and I pointed him to the shelves where they were sitting, and explained that sometimes they also auction them off in the large room towards the rear of the building.

I wandered over to the electronics section pretty much as soon as I got there, and as usual (in my dream, apparently I had been here many times) there was a large bin full of rare Atari 2600 games. As I began to look through them, I saw one titled "Radar Jaws" and then another that was obviously a pirated multi-cart due to the "guts" not fitting entirely in the case. In fact, it was held together with a rubber band.

I don't remember any of the other titles, but I did look through and pick out quite a few of the games - while thinking in my head that I was glad that I told people to take their games there for .50 credit towards other things in the store, because there was one person that must have had all these rare games, and they kept on bringing them there for me to snag at .99 a piece.

Camping Trip

Me and some friends went on a camping trip, apparently somewhere down south, which included a boating trip. Well, not so much boating... but yeah... me and Matthew Lillard (Shaggy) were trying to talk Jeff Gordon into riding in the separated bed of a pickup truck, in this fast flowing river. Me and Matt had already taken a ride, but Jeff was being a baby and didn't wanna do it.

He finally jumped in after the peer-pressure got to him, and me and Matt started pushing him out into the rapids. We were supposed to hold on to the truck bed so that he didn't get away from us, but we just let him go and he wooshed away down the river and crashed into the front of someone's house that had been flooded out.

By the time that me and Shaggy had swam to that house to make sure he was okay, he was inside in the living room, talking to the old couple that lived there - bitching about how mean everyone was being to him. When we went in, he told us that at 9:00am the next morning he was gonna get in his car and go home.

I told him that he couldn't wuss out, because "You and me are kinda in the same boat... we race in Nascar, but we don't have that southern cred... we don't have a kewl accent like Sterling Marlin or something." (Apparently I was a driver as well *shrug*)

I don't know if we convinced him or not, but we ended up hiking along a railroad track into the country, and found a place with a bunch of big flat rocks where we could set up our gear and sleep. We first started to sleep ON the tracks, but then realized that was a bad idea and moved a few feet away from them.

When I woke up I was in a big hotel in Atlantic City, someplace where I used to work. I went in to the arcade and looked for my wallet, which I had stashed underneath one of the change machines. Once I found my wallet I went back out to the lobby with my friends so that I could ride this big sphere that went up and down in the middle of this multi-story open room.

After that I went to another arcade, and actually ran into the same kid that was in the other arcade when I found my wallet. I apologized to him for banging into him, and he was kewl about it.

Abandoned Jail / Hotel / Store

I had been thrown in jail for something, along with Nick and a few other friends. I remember that it was like our 4th or 5th day there, and that Nick was getting out soon, but that I had to spend a whole month there. I was starting to freak out due to claustrophobia, and was able to escape from my cell and into the main part of the building.

It was dark outside, and there were barely any lights on inside this old multi-story building. I went down a few flights of stairs to what I thought was the ground level, but I was really still on the 2nd or 3rd floor when I came around the corner of the stairwell.

The walls were plaster... old, discolored, water-stained, with pieces of the plaster cracking and falling out onto the wet carpeting. I had a bat with me, and I swung it to each side of the doorway before I entered this giant dark room... which ended up being a huge, open storage area where supplies were kept.

A few other escapees were there, and we began looking through all of the goods in the near-darkness, but discovered that everything had already been opened and gone through... none of the food was fit for eating anymore.

As some of us started to leave the creepy dark building, I ran into Kayla... she was making a big deal about how she was a member of the club that met in the downstairs parts of the building, and that I had to leave because I didn't have a pass.

Meeting Friends for a Meal

I was hanging out with Jim, Adam, and Alex at some random hotel somewhere... having sort of a party. Jim and Alex we're doing their own thing, I was trying to just get some sleep, waiting for Adam to get back from wherever he was with his girlfriend. When he got back to the hotel he had a Poison CD that she had given him, and he gave it to me since he already had a copy.

We all wanted something to eat so Jim started making one of those crappy "do it yourself from scratch" pizza kits, but it turned out pretty crappy so we all went to a local VFW to get in on the "all you can eat" charity dinner.

I was waiting for the food to be done by spending some time in their "internet booth" watching little flash animations of Star Wars scenes. When I got done watching them, I exited the booth and found that my whole family was there eating - and that I had waited too long and had missed the serving of the food. They saved me a plate of noodles, potatoes, and beef, but the quality was poor and I was very unhappy. I ate what I had, and headed back to the line for dessert, which was just being served.

Up To No Good

It started out that my cousin and I were sneaking in to some old abandoned warehouse. At least we thought it was abandoned... but it turns out that it was actually being used by Armond, my old boss, to store a bunch of old stuff for some new stores he was opening up.

We had barely made it through the front loading docks when Armond and a team of investors came around the corner and caught us. He looked at me with disappointment, for sneaking into his place. I explained that we thought it was an abandoned building, and I asked if he was going to be opening a new store or something. He asked "Why?" in a suspicious voice, and then we began to talk about random "store stuff" that I can't quite remember.

Then I was somewhere else, sometime during the night, sneaking into a trailer house with a couple of other people. We were looking for someone, but I can't recall who. After we got in there, Samuel Jackson came in with a gun and started shouting at all of us. I hid in a back room and held really still, and he didn't notice that I was in there.

I then jumped out one of the windows and ran down the street and hopped into this old dune buggy / oldies looking car with great big wheels. I started driving away, but realized that I was actually on a track - like those car rides for kids that you see in amusement parks. I was able to navigate my way up the track and into some trees, narrowly making the sharp turns without falling off the track.

Once I was in the trees, I hopped out and ran into a mall that was up there. (*shrug* don't ask me heh) I ran into a department store and grabbed a belt that was laying on one of the counters and slipped it on and then I ran out the door, with cashiers and people chasing after me.

Redneck Store Detention

I had gone on vacation to somewhere down south with my parents and my cousin Mongo. Well, Mongo and I decided to go out and explore the local town where we were staying, and we walked up the street and started to go into this big ratty looking discount store.

Before I even got through the door, some hillbilly came up to me and said that I wasn't allowed going in, because I wasn't "edjeekated" enough. I started arguing with the guy and eventually a female manager came up and asked what the problem was. As the redneck kept shouting and cussing I calmly explained to the woman that we were there on vacation, staying at a hotel only a few blocks away, and that we just wanted to come in and look around and maybe buy some things.

Her verdict was the same as the first guy's... we were undesirable characters and we would not be allowed into the store. I stood on the edge of the store's entry way and taunted the first guy, trying to get him to fight with me, but he wouldn't take the bait. Then Mongo decided he was going to go in anyway, and as soon as he did one of the security guards grabbed him and handcuffed him.

He hadn't done anything wrong, but they told me that he was going to be taken to the jail in downtown Cleveland, and that unless I wanted to have the same fate that I better leave. I got out my cell phone and started to call the police to tell them what was going on at this store, but Mongo told me not to do it - since he didn't have insurance on his truck, and he thought that they'd find out and take his license away from him.

More Random Nostalgia

I was vacationing in Atlantic City and walking along the boardwalk when I ran into Ami, a girl that I went to school with. She was sitting up on an inclined section of the boardwalk, looking down at the ocean as her boyfriend Dave went swimming.

I stopped to talk to her and catch up on old times, but she was too pissed off about the things Dave was doing. Now, all Dave was doing was swimming in the ocean, but for some reason Ami didn't want any part of that. I kept telling her that it isn't often that she'd be near the Atlantic Ocean, and that she shouldn't miss what might possibly be her only chance to go swimming in it.

Just as I finished saying that, Dave came up to us. She introduced me to him, even though I already knew him, and then she invited me to go back to our old school to look around with them. We got to the school, and again, Ami didn't seem happy. The kids were getting ready to eat lunch in the cafeteria, but she wanted to eat lunch somewhere else.

I finally convinced her that we should eat in the cafeteria, since we hadn't stepped foot in that place for about 25 years, and she finally agreed to go... although she whispered to me that we had to sit near the elevator, because that's how Dave wanted it. *shrug*

We sat down to eat, and now suddenly the elevator was actually a way to get to the top of this giant ferris-wheel type ride, outside in some park. Before we could even start eating, Dave ran off and headed over to the elevator. It is hard to describe, because it couldn't be done in real life, but there was a "doggy door" sized elevator door at ground level, and then another "normal" sized entrance a few feet above it.

Everyone was getting in through the doggy door, but Ami and I were too big. Dave had already left Ami behind, and began climbing up to the normal elevator door - because he HAD TO RIDE THE ELEVATOR. Some sort of obsession or something. Once again Ami was pissed off. By then I began to realize that it was because Dave actually didn't like doing ANYTHING that Ami wanted to do, and vice versa. I'm not sure why they were even a couple.... heh

Old Dreams and Demon Babies

I was standing in line with a bunch of people at some indoor fun-park type thing. We were in a dark enclosed area, with several lines waiting to get into these doors that led to the next part of the ride we wanted to get on. The closer you'd get to the doors, the more the floors would shake and wobble. We were expecting there to be something really grand on the other side...

When the doors opened, only one person at a time could go through... and it was a water slide type ride. Everyone, as soon as they saw this, got annoyed because nobody had any intention of getting wet. However in order to continue on the ride and get out, we had to get on our butts in our normal street clothes and slide down this gradual water slide that led into a large dark area, filled with Disney-esque animatronic characters and brightly lit scenes.

I started down the slide, but was able to divert myself somehow off of the main path and into a "back area" of the ride. I was dropped into a very familiar area, where you were almost participating in a live videogame. I was now on an innertube, sliding quickly through the hallways covered in bones and skulls, heading towards what appeared to be a dead end.

I knew I had been there before, because I wasn't worried about the dead end... I knew at the end of the hallway that there was a secret opening to the left, where a giant demon monster would be waiting to attack me and stop my progress. My only weapon was a motion activated gun, which would shoot bullets for the first 9 shots, and then a huge burst of energy on every 10th shot.

I reached the end of the hallway, and my innertube was not cut up by all of the bones and teeth and piece on the floors. And as I expected, the demon crashed through the wall to the left of me and I began shooting. The gun was huge... you had to hold it by handles on both sides, and to shoot it you had to lunge it forward and then back, repeatedly. I knew that a couple of "10th shot" blasts would kill him, and it did... he fell to the ground.

I decided not to go into the secret area, because I could see more giant demons walking around in there, so I turned and headed back up the hallway from which I came. At this point it turned into a hallway from my elementary school. As I began heading back towards an exit, lots of little demon children and babies started trying to attack me.

I still had the gun, but I wasn't shooting at them. Instead, I was swinging the gun around wildly, smashing the demon kids in the heads, knocking them to the ground and then continuing on. At the very end of the hallway, right by the exit, there was a child-sized ride-on train that would also demonized, driving around in circles, blocking my escape.

The train actually had a front which was the head of Beetlejuice, with its mouth full of sharp teeth, angrily biting at anyone that tried to get past it. I took a few swings with my gun, and despite hitting it, it didn't fall down as easily as the demon kids. I hit it in the side a few times, but couldn't knock it over, so eventually I smashed it in the face as hard as I could and then ran through the exit.

Cougar

I was attending a party in some old building, with Tabatha from work and Pam Gerun, one of my friends from back in high school. We were upstairs looking for people we knew whenwe came across big table full of brochures. Apparently this party was sponsored by a motorcycle dealership, as they had brochures for all of the new bikes that were being released this coming year.

We never found anyone that we knew, so Pam and I went outside to sit in the grass beside the house and talk. She was sitting in a papasan, and I was just sitting on the ground. Just then, a cougar came around the corner, as if it was stalking us. I told Pam to cover her head with a blanket, and she did that just in time so that the cougar didn't know she was sitting there.

I grabbed a blanket and covered up too, and was safe, but then I saw my cat walking towards me from the other direction and I had to get up to grab him and then we both hid back under the blanket. By this time though, the cougar had seen me and Kitty, and he started pawing at the blanket, knowing that we were under there.

He finally pulled the blanket back enough that he could stick his paw in. He pawed around for Kitty, but once he realized couldn't grab anything (he didn't have any claws) he got frustrated and left.

Huge Mish Mash

Ami, an old classmate of mine, were walking around on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, going in and out of shops. We had a couple other friends with us, although I couldn't identify who they were. We were walking and bitching about how it sucks to get old, and how nice it was when we were young and everything was new and hopeful.

Ami pointed out a place where she knew some of our other friends were, so we went inside. She said I had to walk into the bathroom to get one of them. I only had socks on, so it was nasty walking into this bathroom without something protecting my feet. Inside there was a guy resting on a stretcher... it was David Riggs. He still looked the same age as we did when we were kids, but he was adult sized. Hard to explain, but he looked really odd. He seemed mentally retarded too, as he kept saying "You Bobby Parsley! You Bobby Parsley!" He didn't remember me until I reminded him about doing Young Authors Conference work with him in Mrs Boyer's class.

As I left there, Ami was gone, and for some reason I was now walking around on all fours. I think it had something to do with an injury. I was going into a school cafeteria, so I tried to get back up and stand just on my legs so that nobody would make fun of me. It really hurt, and I didn't look natural, and one girl in there smiled and said "I remember making fun of you during Knight Rider!" I have no idea what she meant, but she was smiling and didn't mean anything bad by it.

After I left the cafeteria I was now at a big auction. I went there because I knew they had a bunch of rare videogames. I found the pile of old NES games... all of them were boxed, in almost new condition, and they were the rarest of the rare titles. (Although in reality, all of the titles were games that don't even exist.) I was waiting for the auction to start so that I could bid, then some kid comes over and offered the auctioneer 20 bucks for the stack. I was upset, and motioned to the guy that I wanted to bid too.

I didn't end up getting the games, instead choosing to leave and go into a nearby BW3 with Ami. (She was back, for some reason.) She ran into the restaurant, since she had to use their restroom, and me and my friend came in a few seconds later. The people at BW3 thought we were food critics, so they were falling all over themselves to make us happy.

The place was crowded, so they couldn't seat us right away. Instead, they sat us separately... with me sitting at a table with a really old man and some retarded young kid. The kid kept crawling around on the floor, picking things up. It turns out he was looking for coins. The old man apparently was a coin collector and had taught the kid to look for rare coins on the floors of restaurants. *shrug* I watched him picking up coins... he found old silver dollars, weird gold pieces, and even dirty old pennies and dimes.