It happened tonight.\u00a0 It was downtown small town America. Everyone was there.\u00a0 It was Cruise Night in Pleasant Hill. After the blistering months of heat, it was nice. Rock band squalling in the empty lot.\u00a0 Lawn chairs, people chatting, groups walking, old cars every where you could see.\u00a0 Oh it was nice.<\/p>\n
Spouse and I found our car friends and that’s when it happened.<\/p>\n
The lead singer was a woman. The song came out of the band. She started screaming Bobby McGee.\u00a0 Oh Lord.\u00a0 My body twitched to the raucous music.\u00a0 Lead singer screamed Bobby McGee.\u00a0 My body started rock and rolling to the music.\u00a0 Shocked stares and smiles from the spouse’s car guys friends.\u00a0 Smile at this personality in the throes of Bobby McGee and it goes out of control!<\/p>\n
I was dancing in the street.\u00a0 I was smoking a tote for Janice Joplin and Bobby McGee.\u00a0 I went out of control. My body with this weigh loss feels totally cool.<\/p>\n
And then I started singing.<\/p>\n
When I didn’t know the words, I tried to apologize to the spouse’s friends, but they could tell I didn’t mean it.\u00a0 I felt like I was dashed and crammed back into the late 60’s night club fun nights.<\/p>\n
I tired of standing in place and started dancing down the street.\u00a0 Luckily I know no one in the town and I didn’t care anyway.\u00a0 I had my dark glasses on so they had no idea who I was.<\/p>\n
The song finally stopped.\u00a0 The lead singer stopped singing and Janice Joplin went away.<\/p>\n
I slid over to the raffle drawing stand and bought some tickets to a drawing. I told the woman I had no idea what had come over me. The wise woman behind the counter told me that I acted like that because I felt good, was old and didn’t care what people thought. I bought a Cruise Night T Shirt – XL and wore it the rest of my time at Cruise Night.<\/p>\n
The wise woman hit it just right!\u00a0 I gave her a business card for my book and she was stunned that I was an author.\u00a0 I left her like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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