28 Jan 2024
Dream
I was driving home (to my parent's house) because I was having trouble with my car, and my dad was going to help me work on it. The car, was not the car I was driving - it was one of the old cars my dad had bought me when I was younger. I think in this dream I was an adult, but still living with my parents - relationships of my current adult life were wholly absent.
I pulled up in front of the house, noticing my dad already working on the giant old car not sure which one of them it was. I noticed my old friend Chuck, who liked to do things like that, working with him. I exited my vehicle noting the mess in the back seat of the car I was driving, many books and papers and a crucifix, as well as several gourmet cheeses which I was excited to share with my mom. I gather up the cheeses when Chuck approaches me. "I figured it out" he says.
"what was it?"
"your belt was catching over here." He shows me something that doesn't look any different to me than it did when I dropped it off, or any other time I'd looked at the engine. On the other hand my Dad, who was uncertain he would be able to figure it out, looks relieved.
"So it will work now?" I ask.
"Yeah, you should be able to drive it."
I am glad a the prospect of getting my old car back, but my mom asks me. "Isn't that old thing hot."
I tell her, no, the air works, it just takes longer to get cool than a newer car. "It never bothered me." I say. But then I consider, "but it might be an adjustment considering I've been spoiled all these years by newer cars.
I bring the cheeses in to show my mom. We are both standing by the kitchen counter. The cheeses are all in cellophane wrapped wedges. I show her them one by one, reading the labels. Two of the cheeses are solid black, which is intriguing. The cheeses all have interesting names, the only one I remember though, is the last one. It was called "apple buddy". I realized at this point exactly how much cheese this is. More than could reasonable be eaten.
"I guess we're going to have to freeze some of it." I tell her, slightly embarrassed.
