*Since I am one of those unfortunate saps always looking to the Heavens for signs from some sort of all mighty cloud god for reassurance on pressing issues, it only figures that the sign I've been looking for lately would come from a license plate on the back of some one's car.
*I have an hour drive to school in Indianapolis, Indiana and have, as of lately, found the drive burdensome and corrosive. My thoughts are reeling along the drive, so much so that I'm nearing Indy before my mind realizes that I am there. If that frightens you slightly, I will frighten you more by admitting that I daydream habitually and being alone with my whimsies on a car drive keeps me from dreading the long drive home. It also keeps me from thinking and I've become aware that it's a refuge for me from the realities of a world that sucks at this particular moment in time.
*Any who, I was driving behind this car for quite some time, but wasn't fully paying attention to their license plate or rather much else. I was plagued with worries, doubts, bullshit and general poo. It was when they were suddenly slowed down by a semi that had pulled out into the passing lane in front of them that I found myself riding behind them in a slow dredging pace. I noticed their license plate then--BETRU2U and sat puzzling over it. Frankly, I am a slow person and riddles and puzzles confuse me to death. You know those mad scrambles they have in the newspaper in the comic section. Desperately I try to do them and always desperately I fail at them. It's like the poor man's crossword puzzle. If you can't do the jumbles what else do you have in life?
*I was going at the BETRU2U thing all wrong, however. I thought BETR U 2...like better you too...something. Oh and by the way, I hate the whole obsession this nation has with desecrating and taking a shit on the English language. Spell out laughing out loud or fucking you, the word you...it's not u...it's you! How fucking lazy are you people? I'm not willing to go down this 1984 path quite yet.
*Anyway, I digress. So I still couldn't figure out the license plate for quite some time and I suppose (I will admit slightly) that if I had a better grasp on the stupid shortcuts people use for words now of days, I probably could have figured it out way sooner then I did.
*When I did I was amused slightly. Not at their stupid license plate. But more because I took this as an omen, for some reason, right then, right there. You see, I am going through some pressing times in my life and am on the verge of staking out a claim on myself, reclaiming my identity as you would. Will I be successful and be able to break out of this cycle that I've been looming on for the past five years? It's hard to say. But I did one day, strike the quintessential pose to the heavens and ask for guidance on the matter. And sure enough there it was...BETRU2U.
*Later as I was driving and nearing school, I saw another license plate with the mysterious message of July 04. What the freak did that mean? Who the freak gets a license plate with a date on it? Am I going to have a badass July 04? Probably not. And you know, when you take your divine messages from license plates you're probably going to have the suckiest fourth of July one can imagine. Just because, God's smiling at you.
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