Discuss Amongst Yourselves
In my dreams last night I was trying to sign out my tab at a hotel bar with Mike. Except the waitress confused our card with someone else’s and took like three hours to sort it out. I was throwing a temper tantrum at everyone that worked there until I realized I stayed at that hotel a lot and had stashed my shoe collection there. (For the record, I am a hugely passive aggressive person. Outward displays of anger are unusual unless I do shots of tequila.)
So I tried to go around and grab all my shoes (good shoes too…like CLs) in an effort to show this place I was never coming back there. Then I got a call about photos missing on the website. And so I resigned myself to staying at the hotel and working until they could fix the credit card situation. Which took (in dream time) a full day to do.
Just a note: this was a nondescript hotel. It wasn’t one I had actually stayed at or had actually left my shoes behind there.
This is a fairly prescient dream about the American consumer. You are the consumer and the current economy is represented by the hotel, whose unwillingness to close out the bar signifies the grip of the complex mechanisms by which money is manipulated in the current markets, which in the case of housing have completely failed but which requires participation by the ordinary consumer in order to run. You just want to take your assets (shoes!) and go away but the economy is concerned about the loss of capital (the photos), so you become used to the idea of staying instead of converting all your assets into gold bullion and throwing in your lot with the Somali pirates.
In conclusion, if you have fancy shoes, keep them on. Now wait, that doesn’t sound right…
3 years ago