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i had to work early in the morning, delivering juice. totally recklessly, i stayed up late the night beofre smoking hookah drinking beer and arguing, with maze designer and jackie h weather or not geniuses can still exist in the art world (she and i said no, as technology seems to be surpassing art, he, more ambitiously seems to say yes) .... point is, i was well fuckin knackered at six in the morning after only 4 hours of real sleep.

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the first couple hours of driving were met with some tiredness, but i deliver juices and sodas and was able to fight off the fatigue with free caffienated bubbley beverages.

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the day continued the battle continued, my fatigue caused me to make a couple of careless mistakes, in driving around the city, which i then had to go back and remedy...

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by 430 i was totally exhausted and reaching the end of my route. bleary eyed, I totally passed by my next destination, a cafe on 24th. and sanchez. so at the next intersection (24th and noe), i got ready to turn around at a four way stop

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the turning radius on the old van i was driving is pretty shitty, and as i started into my turn i knew that despite my swifted efforts, i would be kind of caught at the stop sign on noe street, just to my right, and would have to wait at that stop sign, for my chance to make a right turn on to 24th ,wich would finally put me on the street i'd started on, heading in the opposite direction

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i flipped around pretty quickly, and got myself to the stop sign on noe but the vans butt hung a little bit into the opposing traffic on noe

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as i waited for one car to pass down 24th, to turn right on to 24th, a guy in a little fancy green drop top sports car waiting to turn onto noe gave me one of these ...

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and then, although i couldnt hear him, i could start to see him cursing

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this culture is overridden by brats, annoyed to have to push one extra button to leave a message, we expect everything to come immediately. this guy was no exception and especially consireding that i would take, litterally no more than 10 seconds out of his life and that after these ten seconds he may never see me ever again, he was making a pretty sorry first impression. so i gave him one of these

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not a wave, i call it a waif. its a 2 part gesture starting with the helpless damsel in distress hand to forhead followed by a quick jerking of the neck back ...

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which signifies total helplessness. its meant for those people, in our humanitarian crisis who fuss over the little stuff, who frequently offer up a frustrated pout as if the world were ending whenever something little goes wrong or something minor yet unexpected gets in their way. I do pity and empathize, i am sometimes the guy fussing. maybe thats why i was able to so easilly understand what this guys deal was, and maybe thats why i was able to get such an immediate reaction from him. upon my waifing at him he immediately stopped cussing ....

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total stone face, processing

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then he looked down and fiddled with his radio dial, just to look away from me ashamed. i drove away. victory!