Tornado Warning

~ Laura

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We were having lunch in a restaurant in New Bern, NC, when a tornado warning was announced on the news. I wish I was the type of person who fearlessly gets dressed up and eats lunch alone at a bar with a book. I'm not. 

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7 thoughts on “Tornado Warning”

  2. “I wish I was the type of person who fearlessly gets dressed up and eats lunch alone at a bar with a book.”
    I wish I was the type of person who could do that without children and husband and dog holding on to the car while I was trying to drive away.

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  4. As a follow-up, I desperately needed to finish reading a book for a new course I’m prepping, so I put a note up on my bedroom door saying “I am not here. If you have any questions or problems, speak with your father” then I closed and locked* the door.
    *Fruitless. Apparently a Q-tip inserted strategically into the lock will open it.
    Our house is too small for me to have an office, so my bed is the office.
    Then I overheard the kids complaining to their father that I am the only one who wants to move to a bigger house. No one else wants to move. They are perfectly happy where they are. *sigh* Of course.

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  5. “Then I overheard the kids complaining to their father that I am the only one who wants to move to a bigger house.”
    It will get bigger when they move out.

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  6. I used to get dressed up to eat lunch at bars alone. Because I was alone I almost always had a book with me. Although in Southern California having a book with you at a bar was considered very odd behavior since evidently none of the population in that region seemed to know how to read. I hear literacy has only gotten worse since then.

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  7. I love going out for brunch on Sat. or Sun. by myself. I don’t always take a book, sometimes I just people watch.
    I also love traveling alone. It lets me skip the hyped stuff and spend hours in a flea market. If I want to take the local bus instead of a bus tour, no one complains. I also find that I meet and talk to locals more when I am alone and I have often had someone show me their favorite places and restaurants. Traveling alone is freeing.

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