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I love my car - excerpt...
I love my car. It completes me.
When I'm outside of my car I'm vulnerable to the elements. I get cold in winter, or too hot in the summer time. Even when I had my own house I could accidentally take a tumble down the stairs or burn myself on the cooker, or even worse, someone could phone me and make me feel inadequate. In my car I can not be contacted, I can regulate the temperature and best of all, I am invincible. There is a kind of symbiosis at play when I'm at the wheel. Man and machine, governing one another's destinies. I keep the car healthy and the car keeps me sane. I love my car. My car loves me.
So I sold the house. It was a stupid sluggish thing anyway… too big for my needs. I'd got lucky on property inflation and made some money. That was seven years ago and I've lived in the car ever since. It made sense. It contained all the furniture I could want. The glove compartment made a nice table to eat off when opened, and I'm only five foot three, so I have been quite comfortable sleeping in the back. The other good thing about living in the car is that apart from petrol, there are no real bills… and you can live anywhere you please. Even though the money was almost gone (all those service station pasties and Ginster pies add up) it didn't matter.
davies speaks...
I really hate cars. They're dangerous, overused, penis extensions that are
slowly assisting in the euthenasia of this planet. Initially I wanted to
write something about the environment, but with the subject being so huge I
thought I'd have trouble keeping to the word count, so I focused instead on
the notion that people treat cars as their little bubble of safety from the
outside world. You can see it on the streets, how people's personalities
change when they get behind the wheel. I thought I'd take the relationship
between man and his ride a little further... I hope you enjoy the piece.
Now, enough editorial... let's rant. Don't drive when you don't have to...
try to economise by having more than one person in your car at any one
time... SUVs won't make your knob bigger (but they are more likely to kill
than a normal car when colliding with flesh and bone, and they guzzle more
go juice as a rule)... stick to the speed limits... do you really need a car
each? take your partner to work and pick them up in the evening, you may
talk more and find you have something in common... and finally... in this
day and age of fatties and pudgy obese blobs masquerading as human beings,
why don't we collectively try walking for journeys up to three miles? It's
good for you, people look better when they're not smuggling medicine balls,
and you may have forgotton that the world is quite an interesting place at a
slower pace.
davies bio...
Liam Davies is a writer who's work has appeared in numerous publications including the now defunct Kopfhalter! magazine, Wicked Karnival, Insidious
Reflections, Dream People, Whispers of Wickedness and the well worth
purchasing Chimeraworld 3. In the coming year he will have a novel, a
novella and a short story collection published... although it seems to be
taking forever so check out his website for details as and when they crop
up. http://www.freewebs.com/liamowendavies
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