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Show SS a BS ue 3 HOLDING continued from page 22 _scoffing at me right now, butI can assure. you, | am completely serious. | decided Finally, as we neared the end of the tone trail of bright lights, loud people and - smoke-filled casinos, it came into view. MY, Hotei. The . New York, Casino...which, in my mind, meant: roller coaster! I gavea little yelp of glee and picked up the pace in hopes of reaching my destination just a little bit that I was going to look and feel better than sjebvelal baba we i} | q shan 7 i. i ded ii . Vegas, | was in the bathroom, staring at myself in the oversized mirror hanging on the wall in front of me, trying to get pHi what | want to do, maybe sensing that - we were determined I’m tending towards indecisiveness. Finally,I shove the dollar down the machine’s throat and force it to give me fun. Twenty credits show up in the window. to go I bet e I was blessed the max. Fifteen cents. It wasn’t long before I began notice that the efforts were NOT paying off. My scalp was turning into the hairy equivalent of a box of tissue. Each time I’d pull one hair out, another would pop and up this losing I start the ignition. I open instead | find a sandwich baggie full of | nickels, presumably something that The to 160. Salvation. Huh? I turn off the engine and grab the nick- I start to win. Soon the numbers climb. 188. 200. 288. 354. My boyfriend stops trying to convince the machine behind me to play that funky music and comes over to watch. I tell him I’ll stop playing when I hit 400, or twenty bucks. Despite the many stumbling blocks I’ve encountered, I’m still set on making this diner. Being broad daylight, I’m not so_ inclined to make intelligent decisions. exercise thing work to my advantage. In “I’m trading this in on quarters,” I say. And that is what | do. Fifteen minutes ‘never made it ‘to the bank during my former life as a waitress. els. My boyfriend grabs my arm. “Are you sure you want to do this?” he asks. ] think for a minute, maybe the first time all day—it throws him off and makes him weak. I sense this and hit him over the head with the sack of nickels and go back to the casino. He doesn’t know what hit him, because I’ve knocked probably him unconscious. A few minutes later, I’m back at- the car. Guilt? Devotion? Some obscure, divine, post-weakness intervention that makes me see clearly for a moment? No. I’m broke and J know he still has a ten on him somewhere. I’ve got slots to play, baby. % expedition next week, I’ve been practicing in my living room. You can imagine the panic and confusion that arises as my battle. and decided I would focus my energy on poor cat attempts to dodge this immense the things I had more control over...like my figure. | know that some of you are starting to get pretty good! Ror | spectacle on wheels. 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We get in my car Yeah, right. that in with the fact that I refuse to go to up to my body temperature before. they’re gone. We decide to leave. glove box to get a handi-wipe to remove the grime from my fingers and with the opportunity to view the many — roller blading by myself, at least not for gray hairs sprouting up all over my head. I stop at 455. my first time out, and you end up witha Early on | tried to do damage control by Now, if it were four in the morning, I’d dusty pair of roller blades that have yet to yanking out each new silvery-white stop there, pack up and go home, or at see the light of day. strand as soon, as it made its first appearléast spend that cash at an all-night ance. dollar, | have four fuzzy dimes thatI find in a side pocket of -my»backpack. wheels spin and the numbers drop, bouncing a little each time they stop. | watch the credits go from 20 to 12 to 9 Tam one of the most difficult people to motivate into any kind of athletic activ-. ready for work. This is probably my least ity. It’s not that | am never motivated to. favorite task of the day. Standing in the bathroom, staring at myself in the mirror - go out and exercise. | am. My motivaand trying to make myself; at the very tional mood swings just don’t seem to least, look “presentable.” It is during this coincide with those of other people. Tie brief period of titne that na and through this together. i | ; blades, only this time I don’t have a borrowed They haven’t even had time to-warm The first two times I try to feed the borrowed dollar to the machine, it spits it back out, giving me a second and third chance to decide if this is really favorite being a pair of roller blades, accompanied by various forms of armor ~ to protect my body from the plethora of inevitable crash landings | would experience. 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