  Yesterday afternoon I was able to come home from work and sleep for 2 hours before I had to go back. The first hour was uneventful as I really was just tossing and turning, but during the second hour I had the most intense and REALISTIC dream! I know ya'll love it when I write about my dreams, so here it is: I was rushing home on the subway so that I could go to sleep for a couple of hours before I had to go back to work at the Gap. I was supposed to be there by 3pm. (so far, this part of the dream was parralleling my real life) I get off at my subway stop and my friends Hannah and Kelly pick me up and we decide to get ice cream at the local urlLink Stewarts Shop . We are all in great moods and the sun is beating down on our faces.
We drive for a bit, blaring music and laughing. Finally we arrive at the "Stewarts" and I notice that it is 2pm. "Hurry up everyone, I gotta get back to work by 3! ", I emote. We go inside and start choosing our ice cream flavors. Wouldn't you know it, a girl that I was VERY good friends with in highschool, "Dayana Krawchuk" appears out of nowhere and is like: "Joe?
Joe CuttheShit? HOW ARE YOU? " I am THRILLED to see her and we immediately hug. She introduces me to the 35 friends she has brought with her. Yes, that is correct. She had like 35 people with her...all girls.
I meet them all and they act as though I am some sort of celebrity. They hang on my every word and laugh at all my lame jokes. At this point, Kelly is eating her ice cream in a corner booth all alone. Hannah comes over and says hi to Dayana, but it seems as though Dayana is more concerned with me than her. Hannah feels dejected and goes to sit with Kelly. I get a tap on my shoulder and this girl, whom I have never met, hands me a black cherry ice cream cone, but instead of black cherries, there are huge chocolate chunks.
I love it and eat the whole thing in two seconds. Then I announce that I am going to get a second cone, when Kelly calls out : "Joe, we have to go or else you are going to be late for work! " She's right! I quickly say goodbye to the 35 random girls that I have just met. Dayana decides that she wants to drive me to work and I tell Hannah to just go home. (Real nice of me, I know.
I don't have much class in my dreams. ) Dayana's car is silver and looks like a porsche or something. I am sitting in the front seat and Kelly is sitting in the back seat. We are cruising along, when suddenly the car takes a sharp left turn up this grass covered rock garden and Dayana scrapes the entire lower half of her car on a rock bed. It basically guts the car. We sit there all shooken up at the accident we have just gotten into.
Suddenly I start to panic. "I HAVE to get to work. It's only my 3rd day! ", I scream. Dayana pushes a button on the dashboard and the car starts up again, cept when we start to move, it's no longer a porsche, it's a silver wind up car and it is impossible to control. She smashes the car about every half mile.
Once we hit a tree, another time we hit a telephone poll. Each crash made me increasingly more upset and I was literally clawing the skin off my face, cuz I KNEW I was going to get fired from my job. Finally I tell Dayana that "I'm driving" and I move into the driver's seat. I bust my feet through the bottom of the car and I run us all the way home. (No seriously, I ran it home like a Flintstone car). We round the corner and I pull into my parent's house in Albany.
My dad is busy working on a rose garden he has just planted. We jump out and I say to my father "Look who I ran into?? Dayana! " My dad says: "Joe, there are some people here to see you". The 35 girls we left at Stewarts coming running out from behind my house and start cheering for me. I take a few bows and ask Kelly what time it is.
She says: "8pm". I say "WHAT!!!!????!?!?!?!?! OMIGOD! I am TOTALLY FIRED! " My dad says: "Calm down, we will figure this out. What lie can we use?
" I say: "There is no lie to be used! I fucked up! I totally fucked up. " I reach into the bag I was carrying and pull out my cigarettes. When I go to remove one from the pack, I notice a pill of ecstacy sitting in the cellophane wrapper. I try to hide it, but my dad says: "What's that pill?
" My stomach clenches and I say: "Nothing! " He asks to see the pack. I pull it back out of my bag and realize that it's not one pill in my bag, it's like 15 and they are all shoved into the wrapper all crazy like. My dad takes the pack and tells me: "These pills are no good. You should get the red ones. " The 35 random girls voice a resounding "Yes you should" and I realize that I am not in trouble with him at all.
In fact, he has given me excellent advice on which pills of ecstacy are better. I start to smoke a cigarette while the 35 girls go running crazily through my yard. ------end scene------I wake up-------- The phone rings in my bedroom and my dad is calling to ask how the job at the Gap is going. I wake up totally disoriented and tell him about the crazy dream I just had. I swear, it felt so REAL as it was happening. I was convinced that I was fired from the Gap and that there IS such a thing as a silver Flintstone car.
HOW RANDOM! I knew I had to lay it down in this journal. Dreams like this should never be forgotten. Fuck you Gap for making me crazy in my head. 
