Worked with Angie Last Night (part four)

The house was amazing.

Sure, it was fancy, and all that, but the thing that I loved was that the walls were covered in framed art. Like way more dense than it should be, and completely crazy shit.

These people were collectors.

I eavesdropped on the conversations.

I checked out the art in the house.

There seemed to be two groups of people: people with money and people that wanted that money.

The first group was much bigger and much older. The second group were people that worked for the campaign.

On the drive over, Angie said it isn't like at the restaurant. We need to be anonymous, nearly invisible. This is pretty much my style when I work in restaurants already, and so this suited me.

I listened to the same guy tell three different people the exact same line... how their support is particularly valuable since they're a role model in the community.

I listen to a few more of this guy's lines. He is really good at what he is doing. I realize that even his bashful, reluctant, hesitant demeanor that was so disarming is an act. A very well rehearsed monologue. I wonder if he practices different phrases in front of the mirror while he shaves in the morning.

He talked about how important it is that a man of faith is in the governor's mansion.

And to somebody else he said how dangerous new environmental regulations will be to the energy industry.

And then I heard him say how important it is that the governor continues to fight the War on Drugs.

I feel like I'm a casualty in the war on drugs. But Maybe I'm a prisoner of war. I don't know. the war metaphor isn't perfect. But that's not my problem, because they chose it.

What am I? I'm a citizen, I made some bad choices, at least according to that side, but I didn't do anything violent? Do they (the people running the show) really see young people getting high as the same kind of threat as if were actively conspiring with an enemy?

If the war on drugs is an actual war, what's the analog for a pot smoker? Was I a spy behind enemy lines? Maybe that's why they have so much contempt.

Like I said I felt myself getting almost angry at how many bright kids are probably never gonna get their shot because of some accident of birth.

Do they not know how bad it is for people at the bottom, or do they know, but they don't care? Hell, maybe they prefer it. Like the guy looking at hot secretaries.