Thimbelful

“Thimbelful”

Walking
without riches today OR

Back
In the Time Machine

Back
in the Day eye stepped into the Restaurant because there was a table
there near the door nothing much too fancy just Formica on the floor
in matching black and white squares but oblongs eye noticed they were
not squares. Eye ordered up a coffee cup because eye needed some the
ogre matron waitress frowned down at the eye as she left the bill
beside this “Thimbelful” she seemed to notice eye was not
a regular patron or person. Eye swallowed the coffee down and took
mye cup up to the counter she filled it and she smiled as she
presented another bill to eye immediately returned to seat to check
the first bill out. “Thimbelful” was $1.25 plus taxed
there was no way out eye paid the $1.39 total on mye way out she did
not try to collect the other one eye did not even look back at her
ogre matron frown eye returned to present day activity immediately
eye noticed two matron ogres the first one paid for a drinking cup at
the fountain perhaps they were just hapless in the face of inflated
prices used to places without refills free Ed.note: Who is not
careful now with money. Ed.note.ed She filled up her drink eye
watched her drink it over halfway down until it was almost gone then
she hands it to her friend she asked her twice for her own cup. She
smiled when she said this “YOU are not worth a cup at THESE
prices just get you some” they were used to better places eye
could tell but need won the girl she got her refill then sucked it
dry then handed it to partner ogre female who then filled it up again
then drank it down. One more time they filled it up again for friend
and her to have and off they went she must have paid about $1.39. The
price of “Thimbelful” how eye remembered coffee cup it
must have been in 1979 eye can reminisce again some other time for in
arriving early for mye coffee cup not a “Thimbelful”
today the one eye thought was DECAF was the waitress making TEA for
her iced tea she makes it hot in coffee pot and so the first cup that
eye got was not a “Thimbelful” at all but just hot tea or
mabe even DECAF coffee but not a “Thimbelful” of love. `