Our story starts out on a cool musty morning in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Jim, an unemployed mechanic, just waking up.

            “Get up Jim! Don’t you want some coffee?” Says his girlfriend as he moves around in the bed, hoping she will amazingly disappear when his eyes open. “You need to get up”.

            “Damn it!” Jim replies as he rolls around in the bed with a pillow swinging in his hand. “I went to bed 3 hrs ago.”

            “It’s not my fault! Now get up. You need to keep yourself on schedule with your sleeping habits.” Says Sarah, his girlfriend, walking away into the kitchen.

            So Jim, after rolling his pillow around in the bed like he’s batting at a small animal under the covers , gets up.  Jim gets up, scratches his butt with one hand and his head with the other as if it was a way if rejuvenating those places on his body. “Have you seen my glasses” he yells out politely across the house.  “Their where you left them,” Sarah replies while ruffling the ad paper trash pile on the kitchen table.

            Jim gets up, walks around the room in an angry kind of stupid way. Looking for his glasses. He finds them finally after some wondering, stuck within his shoe next to the bed along with his car keys and a pack of gum. He pulls out a piece of gum and starts chewing. “mmmmm”. He chews like it’s important to eat the gum. As he’s chewing however, he realizes he forgot where the gum that was in his shoe, next to his glasses, came from. He stops for a moment in ponderance after putting the gum down on the nightstand next to his shoes. Then, he scratches his chin again and begins to make his way to the kitchen to get some coffee with his adored girlfriend Sarah.

            Now Sarah and Jim were relatively interesting people. Sarah and Jim were married at one time, now divorced, and now dating once again. Living together of sorts, taking car of their two lovely boys named Eugene and David. Of course they had their children basically one right after another right after being engaged outside of high school.   Like most all high school marriages, marriage is forever in the most cryptic, divorced kind of way. Like most all who marry right out of highs school they needed time to grow up. Now, Sarah is 27 and a skilled plumber. Jim has been a mechanic since he was 15 working at the shop part time for his dad. For the first time in his life he is unemployed at the age of 31.