Stanley Pickle Adventure from early 2000's
Posted: Sun May 17, 2020 4:29 pm
I've been at the end of my rope lately, mostly because
of my mid life crisis and my endless struggle with the
ringing in my ears. I've had tinnitus since being a Soldier of the Year
Candidate in the United States Army. Lately the ringing has increased a couple notches and
now I'm finding it really hard to keep from going crazy.
Yesterday, after I couldn't take another second of
this torture from the constant crickets chirping in my
brain...I had to get out of the house. I decided to
take the top off my car and cruise down Pacific Coast
Highway towards Laguana and smell the ocean
and let the wind blow through my hair.
I tried to find a song that I could play over and over
and over again so I could really sink into a good
depression. I found an old favorite from Phil Collins
called "Taking it all too hard" and put it in my CD
player.
No not this confused again
No not the same mistakes again
You're taking it all to heart
You're taking it all too hard
I'd listen to the whole thing and then hit "Repeat"
and listen to it again. I lost track of how many times
I replayed it when I decided to take a
left hand turn away from the ocean.
I was stopped at a light when I noticed a very young
girl dressed in rags. She was holding a sign that
said....
"Homeless and Hungry PLEASE help me."
She had some very attractive features and I was
wondering what she'd look like with a bath and a
striking tomato red dress by Ben de Lisi to complement
her silky blonde hair and fair complexion.
Then it hit me! I'm sitting here in my expensive BMW
convertible driving around beautiful Republican based
Orange County and I'm feeling sorry for myself. I
have a refrigerator full of food, a nice home and a
comfortable bed and this poor thing is sleeping under
a bridge and eating out of garbage cans.
So just as the light turned green, I reached in my
wallet, but all I had was hundreds and few one dollar
bills. I had this incredible urge to do something
special so I pulled out a hundred and handed it to her
as I was slowly driving away.
She was probably expecting another chump to hand her a
one dollar bill, but when she saw that Ben Franklin
staring back her she ran along side my car and kept
crying profusely "Thank You! Thank You! Thank YOU!"
As I looked in my rear view mirror I could see the
look of despair leave her face and it was replaced
with a glimmer of hope. At that very moment I was
overcome with this incredible peaceful feeling. All
of a sudden I forgot about the ringing in my ears and
for one brief second there was this incredible silence
for the first time in twenty years of my life.
I was feeling so good that I decided to stop and treat
myself to some Chocolate Crunch ice cream delight
topped with lots of fudge, marshmallows and Oreo
cookie crumbles. And then I saw those dollar bills
that I still had in my wallet and decided to
play a $1 California Lottery Scratch off ticket. So I said to the
cashier, "I'm feeling lucky today....give me the scratch off with the rainbow"
She said "Nobody wins on the $1 scratch off unless they are born with
a horseshoe up their arse." I pulled out my lucky 1944 Denver Mint
Wheat penny and started scratching.....$1,000 WINNER!!!!
I was so excited that I got in my car and
drove back down PCH to see if that homeless girl was
still there. I wanted to tell her about my experience
and share some of my good fortune with her and maybe
invite her back to my place for a bath, a nice meal
and a comfortable place to sleep for the night.
When I got back to the stoplight she was gone, but I
could see something black and her sign laying on the
ground were she once stood. I stopped my car and
walked up to see what she'd left behind. I bent
down to pick it up I noticed it was a bible. I opened the
cover slowly and noticed there was an inscription on the
first page that said....
"No good deed goes unnoticed in the eyes of the Lord."
I looked to the sky and with a tear in my eyes I
proclaimed..."You saw my good deed today didn't you?
That wasn't really a homeless girl...it was an angel!
There is a God..there really is a GOD!"
Stanley Pickle - Reagan Republican and believer of good deeds
By the Way...this is a TRUE STORY...it really happened to Pickle!
of my mid life crisis and my endless struggle with the
ringing in my ears. I've had tinnitus since being a Soldier of the Year
Candidate in the United States Army. Lately the ringing has increased a couple notches and
now I'm finding it really hard to keep from going crazy.
Yesterday, after I couldn't take another second of
this torture from the constant crickets chirping in my
brain...I had to get out of the house. I decided to
take the top off my car and cruise down Pacific Coast
Highway towards Laguana and smell the ocean
and let the wind blow through my hair.
I tried to find a song that I could play over and over
and over again so I could really sink into a good
depression. I found an old favorite from Phil Collins
called "Taking it all too hard" and put it in my CD
player.
No not this confused again
No not the same mistakes again
You're taking it all to heart
You're taking it all too hard
I'd listen to the whole thing and then hit "Repeat"
and listen to it again. I lost track of how many times
I replayed it when I decided to take a
left hand turn away from the ocean.
I was stopped at a light when I noticed a very young
girl dressed in rags. She was holding a sign that
said....
"Homeless and Hungry PLEASE help me."
She had some very attractive features and I was
wondering what she'd look like with a bath and a
striking tomato red dress by Ben de Lisi to complement
her silky blonde hair and fair complexion.
Then it hit me! I'm sitting here in my expensive BMW
convertible driving around beautiful Republican based
Orange County and I'm feeling sorry for myself. I
have a refrigerator full of food, a nice home and a
comfortable bed and this poor thing is sleeping under
a bridge and eating out of garbage cans.
So just as the light turned green, I reached in my
wallet, but all I had was hundreds and few one dollar
bills. I had this incredible urge to do something
special so I pulled out a hundred and handed it to her
as I was slowly driving away.
She was probably expecting another chump to hand her a
one dollar bill, but when she saw that Ben Franklin
staring back her she ran along side my car and kept
crying profusely "Thank You! Thank You! Thank YOU!"
As I looked in my rear view mirror I could see the
look of despair leave her face and it was replaced
with a glimmer of hope. At that very moment I was
overcome with this incredible peaceful feeling. All
of a sudden I forgot about the ringing in my ears and
for one brief second there was this incredible silence
for the first time in twenty years of my life.
I was feeling so good that I decided to stop and treat
myself to some Chocolate Crunch ice cream delight
topped with lots of fudge, marshmallows and Oreo
cookie crumbles. And then I saw those dollar bills
that I still had in my wallet and decided to
play a $1 California Lottery Scratch off ticket. So I said to the
cashier, "I'm feeling lucky today....give me the scratch off with the rainbow"
She said "Nobody wins on the $1 scratch off unless they are born with
a horseshoe up their arse." I pulled out my lucky 1944 Denver Mint
Wheat penny and started scratching.....$1,000 WINNER!!!!
I was so excited that I got in my car and
drove back down PCH to see if that homeless girl was
still there. I wanted to tell her about my experience
and share some of my good fortune with her and maybe
invite her back to my place for a bath, a nice meal
and a comfortable place to sleep for the night.
When I got back to the stoplight she was gone, but I
could see something black and her sign laying on the
ground were she once stood. I stopped my car and
walked up to see what she'd left behind. I bent
down to pick it up I noticed it was a bible. I opened the
cover slowly and noticed there was an inscription on the
first page that said....
"No good deed goes unnoticed in the eyes of the Lord."
I looked to the sky and with a tear in my eyes I
proclaimed..."You saw my good deed today didn't you?
That wasn't really a homeless girl...it was an angel!
There is a God..there really is a GOD!"
Stanley Pickle - Reagan Republican and believer of good deeds
By the Way...this is a TRUE STORY...it really happened to Pickle!