The Remarkable Fools Letter

The Remarkable Fools Letter

memories of bob

all lit up and no place to go

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Jim Dalling
Aug 04, 2025
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It’s only human doncha know?

Dear reader, it’s only human for others to drip their turds of existence on their interpretations of our experiences.

This is perhap why I find humans both so damn fascinating and so fucking tiresome.

Take for example a story I’ve often related about my Dad’s dad - Bob - you know, the taxi stand poker loser.

I have few remaining memories of Bob. But there’s one that I can picture still as I type this. He’s got smokes going - cigarettes. There are five in his mouth, two in each nostril and one sticking out of each ear.

He managed to puff them all at once - even his ears!

I can’t remember where, nor whom - hell it may have been one of you dear readers who referred to this as a traumatic memory.

Though, given how I’ve purged my readership of woke flakes, it likely wasn’t one of you, more than likely it was one of the rancid control freak turds I encountered in therapy school.

Traumatic memory?

I have a message to anyone who considers this to be a traumatic memory:

Go …

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