Well, I was pretty sure I wanted shake the fears I had, so I poured the juice into a jar and I labeled it REJECTION, like that with all capitals. Looking at it kind of gave me the Heebie-Jeebies, you know? The room had a strange smell too, sort of like the smell of broccoli that’s been left sitting on the stove for a couple of days, with a hint of incense or something weird. There were old wooden shelves with pint jars on every one of them and every jar was labeled with masking tape with stuff written in sharpie like, A Knock at Night or Heights or That My Husband Will Find Out, and I can tell you that one made us laugh so hard.Ī sign on the wall said, You can leave a fear behind but you must take one with you and there were empty jars, a roll of masking tape, and a milk jug of green liquid with Fear Juice red-sharpied on the side. We found a room with hippy beads over the door, so we went in. Into the way-back, you know, the storeroom where they store the food arriving on trucks. Then she popped a bubble from her gum so hard it sounded like a piece of gravel hitting the windshield. She didn’t look up until my buddy said, Hey Elsie is it true that there is a place to leave your fears in the back? And she was like, Go see. Old Lady Elsie was there behind the cash register, just like always reading People Magazine.
It was weird what Mandy said, because she was rejecting me at the same time as we were talking about it. To top it off my sometimes girlfriend Mandy said, You are so afraid of rejection you make me sick. How cool would that be? But I didn’t because I was sure they would turn me down, like others have lately. One at the Mustang stop-and-rob sweeping up, and the other at the grocery store working in produce, which would have been the best job ever because you spend most of the time just misting the vegetables. That was worth checking out, because who doesn’t want to get rid of fears? Right? I hadn’t even applied for two jobs because I was too scared to. So my buddy Hal went with me down to the old mom and pop place off Main in Pleasant Grove because we heard that in the back you could leave your fears behind.
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