{"id":1166,"date":"2015-01-30T19:27:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T03:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2015-05-09T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T02:30:09","slug":"i-didnt-even-want-the-five-things-i-did-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/30\/i-didnt-even-want-the-five-things-i-did-take\/","title":{"rendered":"I Didn\u2019t Even Want the Five Things I Did Take"},"content":{"rendered":"

Postaday for January 30th: Burnt<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>Remember this prompt, when your home was on fire and you got to save five items? That means you left a lot of stuff behind. What are the things you wish you could have taken, but had to leave behind?<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh for fuck\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n

You want to know the truth? None of that stuff I recovered\u00a0was all that necessary. Most of my computer stuff is saved in the cloud. Those books I grabbed aren\u2019t all that good anyway. My engraved watch is nice, but I hardly ever wear it anymore, and the marathon it commemorates wasn\u2019t that fast. The bottle of rum is so easily replaceable as to make me laugh, and I totally made up the part about my wife\u2019s potato salad. It\u2019s my mom\u2019s recipe, and she\u2019ll make it any time I want.<\/p>\n

And as for that wedding album\u2014 I just needed a punch line. We have all the pictures on the computer, and like I said, that stuff’s all backed up in the cloud.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong, it was real fun running back into that fire. Nevermind the fact that if I hadn\u2019t woken up when I did, I\u2019d have died in it. Or that my wife seemed to be perfectly okay\u2014 she, apparently, made it out with plenty of time to spare, while I was left to snore away in the heat and smoke on our living room couch.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m being sarcastic, by the way. It wasn\u2019t fun at all.<\/p>\n

Nor was it fun dealing with the insurance people. Act of God, my ass. We finally got a check, for my half of what everything was worth. My wife keeps saying its my fault, that I didn\u2019t demonstrate enough regret at all the things I left behind, all the things I didn\u2019t save.<\/p>\n

Well, sue me for not having an emotional attachment to crap. It\u2019s all replaceable. Okay, maybe I like the way my \u2018500 Mile Award\u2019 Nike shirt felt after years of wash and wearing. I can buy a new one, but it\u2019ll be new-shirt stiff, you know what I mean. But how am I supposed to use THAT to get a better settlement out of the insurance company?<\/p>\n

What, I\u2019m supposed to feel bad about the TV and the bed and the refrigerator full of fat-free Greek yogurt? Sorry, but not sorry.<\/p>\n

The day before I that damned fire, I\u2019d gone for a nice long run. Never synched my GPS watch, though. Now I\u2019ll never know what my average speed on that run was. So, there. That\u2019s the one thing I regret. Not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Postaday for January 30th: Burnt.\u00a0Remember this prompt, when your home was on fire and you got to save five items? That means you left a lot of stuff behind. What are the things you wish you could have taken, but had to leave behind? Oh for fuck\u2019s sake. You want to know the truth? None … <\/p>\n

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