You can't get there from here

pain is part of life

You can’t get there from here. And no matter what, it’s going to take quite a while. The roads are slow these days. Hell, they’re always slow. We’ve only got two seasons you know. Winter, and construction.

What? Too good for that joke? I don’t blame ya. I should be too but I can’t help myself on account of my incredible self loathing. Yessir. When it comes to self hatred, I’m like a boarder collie on a sheep I tell ya.

Anyways bud, ya need to go around.

Go down that way a piece. Three stoplights maybe. Go around the lake. Once you get t’other side, you’ll see an old parking lot? Things are grown up everywhere there, you’ll hardly see the pavement really. But just up above on the crest of the hill you’ll see the old foundation? Right?

That’s where Lenny’s pizza used to be.

You turn left there.

Make certain sure you turn where Lenny’s used to be.

Don’t take the next left if once ya get past that.

That’ll bring you down past Johnson’s wreckers.

You don’t wanna go there.

His dogs are mean.

He calls…