Call-Cat

A phone is dailed. A phone rings. Someone somewhere picks it up.

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"Hey Joe. Yeah, I'm alright. Can't complain. Haha, no, not lettin it get to me. Did I ever tell you about that, Joe? Did I ever tell you why I'm so relaxed, why I don't stress? Nope, cheaper than pot. Much. Haha. Yeah, exactly.

"It's hard to explain, so just give me a second here, Joe. Alright. Alright.

"So, I guess You could say I'm not stressed because I'm not worried. Yes, I know that's a circular explanation Joe, but let me continue. I have this apparently rare ability to be able to raise my shoulders a little and let them fall. I have an incredible capacity for shrugs. It's more important than it sounds. See, when you shrug you sort of say in your head 'oh well, what 're you gonna do'. And that's all well and good, but when I shrug I say 'yeah thats rough. might be tough. I can handle it. fuck it. '. Either that or 'I don't care'. Mostly the first one though. I'll get back to the second one. Remind me, Joe, okay?

"AS I was saying, my shrugs are shrugs of acceptance and readiness. Its like I say to myself 'are you ready' and the answer is invariably 'lets just try it and see'. Sometimes I'm not ready. It's happenned. It has. I pussy out of situations all the time. I guess a better description would be 'lets just see', because usually I enter into these situations slightly apprehensively, but once the situations arrive I just deal. I'll repeat that. I just deal. I'm going to let that simmer on your brain pan for a second. one steamboat.... good.

"I deal. I deal really well. Like a cat I land on my feet, metaphorically. Thats the only way I'm like a cat. It's funny, but do you know how I deal so well, Joe? because I'm almost always ready to fall. It's that damn boyscout training. Be Prepared. I am, most of the time. If I'm not, then I don't bother entering into the circumstance. So thats another thing, I don't enter into anything that I know for sure I can't handle.

"Somewhere during this whole thing I think I pulled a hypocritical muscle Joe. Stop me If I'm not on the same train of thought. Yeah, maybe we should recap. I shrug and am not worried because I can handle it. I don't do things unless I can handle them. No, that makes sense. Of course I'm only going to shrug if something comes up because it's going to come up under circumstances that are not beyond my control. How diverse those circumstances are becomes a reflection of how capable I am. I am quite capable. Hence, the many circumstance with which I can deal. Ergo, I shrug, a lot. Bam. What, Joe? Right, the 'I dont care' shrugs. Good remind. High Five.

"The I don't care shrugs are different. Its partly the same shrug as having to do with being able to handle business, but also is partly influenced by a sort of blanketing forebearance I've developed over time. Think of it as a tough skin that isn't only physical and emotional, but social as well. It has a lot to do with griping, Joe, thats griping, as in complaining or bitching. I rarely do it. I don't see a reason for it. You can do it to me all you want. I'll probably just shrug and smile. watch for it next time, Joe. Ha, I know. I know.

"The thing is... it gets complicated, so I'm going to have to talk about it another time. I've got some work to get done. Or something, but I'll see you later Joe. Yeah for sure. Later."

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