home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
-
- ### ###
- ### ###
- ### #### ### ### ### ####
- ### ### ##### ### ###
- ### ### ### ### ###
- ### ### ##### ### ###
- ########## ### ### ##########
- ### ###
- ### ###
-
- Underground eXperts United
-
- Presents...
-
- ####### ## ## ####### # # ####### ####### #######
- ## ## ## ## ##### ## ## ##
- #### ## ## #### # # ####### ####### #######
- ## ## ## ## ##### ## ## ##
- ## ## ####### ####### # # ####### ####### #######
-
- [ Frozen Dreams ] [ By The GNN ]
-
-
- ____________________________________________________________________
- ____________________________________________________________________
-
-
-
-
- "FROZEN DREAMS"
- by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu
-
-
- "I am the ice cream man
- I am a one-man band"
- (Tom Waits)
-
-
-
-
- The clerk laughed. At first I thought he found my ancient clothes
- amusing, like everybody else apparently did around here.
- "Bus driver?", he asked me with that new dialect that I had not gotten
- myself used to yet.
- "Yes..." I answered and realized that I had made a fool of myself.
- Luckily, there was only me and the clerk present in the office, so I had no
- reason to feel completely ashamed.
- The follow-up question was even worse.
- "Do not tell me you are trained to drive a bus that is powered by
- petrol?"
- "Actually."
- Oh, how the clerk laughed. He leaned over the table, the he threw his
- body backwards and almost fell to the shiny floor before he buried his face
- in his hands. His laughter echoed, danced around in the room and smacked
- my ears.
- He calmed down for a second and looked up from his hands.
- "...and... YOU... want a JOB?" he screamed and began to laugh
- hysterically again.
- I tried to remain cool. People with a good attitude and a 'professional'
- look always get what they want, I pondered.
- "Yes, I want a job." I answered and smiled friendly.
- "SUCKER! HA HA HA!"
- My idea of a professional look obviously failed. The sad truth had to be
- that there actually was not any need for bus drivers. Even those who knew
- how to drive a bus that runs on petrol.
- "What else can you do?" the clerk asked me while giggling like a madman.
- His stocky body went up and down in the chair.
- "Uhm... er... well..."
- The clerk suddenly turned dead serious and tapped with his fingers on the
- table.
- "Well? What can you do (except for driving a bus that runs on petrol)?"
- I did not know what to answer. I had no real profession except for
- driving a bus.
- "Nothing, I suppose?" he concluded and sighed. "I guess the only chance
- for you to become someone in this world is to educate yourself. How old
- are you by the way?"
- "Two-hundred and five years old!"
- "Very funny."
- "Fifty-five."
- The clerk placed his hands on his impressive stomach.
- "I am sorry, but we do not educate people who are over fifty years old.
- New policy."
- "But they did that..."
- "...THEN yes, but not NOW."
- Silence. We just sat there, me and him, looking at each other. The
- clerk continued with his annoying habit of tapping his fingers on the desk
- again. It was obvious that the conversation was over.
- Outside, I met a friend from the past. He told me that there was no job
- available for him either, since the twenty-first century had no use for
- computer programmers who only knew Cobol and C. Together we walked to the
- nearest pub to have a cold beer, while talking about what a worthless idea
- it had been to pay thousands of dollars for a coffin of ice nineteen ninety
- four. Eternal life, what a joke.
- But hey, dreams are never what you expect them to be.
-
-
-
-
- //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
- Uncle Sam does the best he can.
- A pleasure dome: ETEXT.ARCHIVE.UMICH.EDU /pub/Zines/UXU
- \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
-
- Hey ho, let's go.
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- uXu #225 Underground eXperts United 1994 uXu #225
- Call RIPCO ][ -> +1-312-528-5020
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-