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2004/11/16

P #4

On the first gray day of winter, in a wet alley by the school,  bended over the cart full of glass, with a smile on his face and a cigarette on his hand, P. looked at us, dreg a puff, cough a long and dropped his wisdom:
Only one thing can stop true love between a man and a woman... her husband.
(Text needed to be changed from "only one thing can stop true love between two people..." due to re-found American morality.  Thank you for saving us.)
2004/10/27

Uncle P #4

Once we saw Uncle P. walking down the street with a very secure pace. We wandered what happened since generally he was hanging from his supermarket cart more then pushing it.  My friend quickly dug into the garbage bin close to him and pulled out an empty bottle of some sort of juice.  Small little bottle, we wandered if it was going to be enough for a good piece of wisdom.   We walked towards him matching his confident jive. We crossed the street and handed the loot.  He was wearing a skirt, a red skirt with big white flowers around the bottom.  We looked at him like he was naked, he looked at us with a sure grin and with his sandpaper voice said:
While you are looking for the meaning of life, be a sport and see if you can find my pants
2004/10/23

Uncle P. daily wisdom #3

 
I don't think Uncle P ever left the city but he had a lot of advices on how to survive in the wilderness.  I guess you don't really have to be in the wild to figure certain stuff out.  That's what I liked about Uncle P.:  Good common sense... well....maybe not common but...sense for sure, some sort of sense, the insane kind of sense, sense never the less.  Who can actually assert that this advice I got for an empty bottle of San Pellegrino is actually bad? 
There is only one way to survive a bear attack:    stay home.
2004/10/22

Uncle P. daily wisdom #2

One time I was walking by the elementary school when Uncle P. jumped out of the ally, looked at me with his eyes wide open, showing all his white an asked me with his scratched trough... "Do you have a glass bottle?". I quickly opened my military salvaged beg and pulled out a full bottle of orange juice and handed it to him.  He shook his head in approval, opened it, drank avidly half of it, tossed the second half splashing his own feet and said:
"Never believe what the write on those school signs. -Slow children- ain't that slow when you try to run them over with a car"

Uncle P. daily wisdom

Ok, so a lot of my friends read my blog and they all thought it is a bit too dark colored.... Well, I said... If you grew up following uncle P words of wisdom, like I did, you would be a little jaded too.  Uncle P is not really my uncle, actually he's nobody's uncle... or maybe everybody has an uncle like that... whatever... in my case it was a bum that lived in the dumpster by my school and gave out advices in exchange for empty glass bottles.  Maybe he didn't spread the kind of wisdom that everybody can use or should use, in fact, the first advice he ever gave was "never follow my advice", but glass bottles are easy to come by and little towns don't offer much entertainment...  See, Uncle P had this problem with his throat that made is voice sound like a cheese-grater and it was all because once he ate a broken glass bottle on a bet. Unfortunately the shards scratched his vocal cords first and his other sound emitting orifice next, causing him irreparable damage on both ends. His luck started changing right then.  "You try holding a job, any job, when you sounds like a gaddamm washboard and you shit in your pants all the times" he used to say.  He had a point.  So his mission in life was to eliminate all glass bottles from the face of the earth by collecting them and taking them down to the recycling center.  "Burn you bitches" he yelled to every shopping card full of bottles he took to the slaughterhouse.  He had a mission Uncle P, not like the other bums that did it for the money.  He had a mission and to achieve it he had to have his own wisdom.  I tell you though, his wisdom should be taken with a grain of salt, well, to be fair it should be taken with a pair of surgical gloves and some disinfectant.  So never the less, I'll publish a few of his words every day.

Here's the first:

 

"If love drives you crazy, drive love in the middle of the freeway, open the door and kick her out."