| Author: | Donald Roberts | ISBN: | 1230001321449 |
| Publisher: | Donald Harry Roberts | Publication: | August 25, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Donald Roberts |
| ISBN: | 1230001321449 |
| Publisher: | Donald Harry Roberts |
| Publication: | August 25, 2016 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
AN UNHAPPY MAN GOES FOR A CAR RIDE.......
He went for a drive. That’s it. Just a drive. A drive with no destination and for no particular reason except to clear his head….get himself out of a melancholy mood…maybe even find a smile somewhere in the gloomy realities of his life. But the real question ….that he needed to answer was…”Why Am I Unhappy. I should be Happy. Most men with my life would be happy. But I am not. So again I ask why the hell am I so damn unhappy.
He went for a drive….just a little cruise in his convertible…with the top down and the wind blowing through his hair. But an hour became two three and finally four until he stopped at a line up for the ferry at Tobermory. A line he could not get out of. So he paid the fee and followed the lineup onto the boat.
“I should call home and let Ina know that I am still driving.” He thought. But he didn’t.
He had lunch on the ferry and ate like he was famished….which was exactly right because he had left home before breakfast, had missed supper the night before and only had a light lunch…so now he was having supper, breakfast and lunch all at once which he was just finishing when the ferry arrived at Southbay Mouth.
He returned to his car and followed the line of cars off the boat, stopping briefly to let the faster moving vehicles get ahead of him. He was not in a hurry and was not even sure where he was going…except he was on Manitoulin Island and at that moment it came as a great idea to explore this largest fresh water island in the world. So when all the traffic was gone he pulled back on to the road and started the next leg of his drive….still not quite happy but no longer severely unhappy…”Somewhere in between.” He thought but had not found a smile in the still semi-dull reaches of his mood.
The road, highway 6. It travelled basically north. The unhappy, but not quite so unhappy man followed it for a short distance then stopped at a gas station…for gas…of course but he also purchased a map of the island at six dollars and ninety nine cents …plus tax…a map he would only use once…minutes after he bought it.
The highway….number six made its way to Little Current then after a brief sojourn through town turned into highway five forty that etched its way along the north shore of the island and eventually curving and headed for the town of Meldrum Bay. It was mid-afternoon when he set off again and the not quite so unhappy man did not stop again until he came to the turn off to the town of Gore Bay. It was nearly dinner time, but after he gassed up again decided to continue on to the end of the road. It would be approaching evening by the time he arrived….a good time to have supper. By the time he finished supper it would be too late to head for home. He would get a room….Certainly there would be a room to be had…..and on he went. However things did not go exactly as he planned….actually things went totally awry from the plan….as you will see…or should I say….as you will read.
AN UNHAPPY MAN GOES FOR A CAR RIDE.......
He went for a drive. That’s it. Just a drive. A drive with no destination and for no particular reason except to clear his head….get himself out of a melancholy mood…maybe even find a smile somewhere in the gloomy realities of his life. But the real question ….that he needed to answer was…”Why Am I Unhappy. I should be Happy. Most men with my life would be happy. But I am not. So again I ask why the hell am I so damn unhappy.
He went for a drive….just a little cruise in his convertible…with the top down and the wind blowing through his hair. But an hour became two three and finally four until he stopped at a line up for the ferry at Tobermory. A line he could not get out of. So he paid the fee and followed the lineup onto the boat.
“I should call home and let Ina know that I am still driving.” He thought. But he didn’t.
He had lunch on the ferry and ate like he was famished….which was exactly right because he had left home before breakfast, had missed supper the night before and only had a light lunch…so now he was having supper, breakfast and lunch all at once which he was just finishing when the ferry arrived at Southbay Mouth.
He returned to his car and followed the line of cars off the boat, stopping briefly to let the faster moving vehicles get ahead of him. He was not in a hurry and was not even sure where he was going…except he was on Manitoulin Island and at that moment it came as a great idea to explore this largest fresh water island in the world. So when all the traffic was gone he pulled back on to the road and started the next leg of his drive….still not quite happy but no longer severely unhappy…”Somewhere in between.” He thought but had not found a smile in the still semi-dull reaches of his mood.
The road, highway 6. It travelled basically north. The unhappy, but not quite so unhappy man followed it for a short distance then stopped at a gas station…for gas…of course but he also purchased a map of the island at six dollars and ninety nine cents …plus tax…a map he would only use once…minutes after he bought it.
The highway….number six made its way to Little Current then after a brief sojourn through town turned into highway five forty that etched its way along the north shore of the island and eventually curving and headed for the town of Meldrum Bay. It was mid-afternoon when he set off again and the not quite so unhappy man did not stop again until he came to the turn off to the town of Gore Bay. It was nearly dinner time, but after he gassed up again decided to continue on to the end of the road. It would be approaching evening by the time he arrived….a good time to have supper. By the time he finished supper it would be too late to head for home. He would get a room….Certainly there would be a room to be had…..and on he went. However things did not go exactly as he planned….actually things went totally awry from the plan….as you will see…or should I say….as you will read.
