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Dreaming; Night of
April 16, 1987
       6:51              Else before. Then I was discussing child psychology and such with the mother of a baby girl. Earlier, I did battle with some guy and whipped him soundly. Then there was part about bathrobes, the joy certain people had in them and the trouble they brought one former criminal. Then there was part about a guy who used a smart rat to find something that he and his old-fashioned girlfriend had lost. Then, I and another guy were carrying off a dead tree, being careful not to let his grandfather see us, because it would have hurt him to see the tree disposed of, even though it had to be done. Then I was with some girl. We were driving (I was) down a street and around a parking lot, looking for our car we'd left there. I found it and whipped into the little parking area. Unfortunately, the brakes failed. I struck one car, bounced up, and landed on another. Then our car fell off the other, and we got out. I looked back at the one we'd landed on, hoping that it might have escaped damage, but steam was pouring out from under the hood. A policewoman pulled into the parking lot (on a motorcycle?); apparently, she'd seen the whole thing. I thought for sure she was going to give me a ticket, but all she asked me for at first was some sort of credit card. I volunteered my driver's license, but she waved it off. The owner of the car I'd landed on came up, yelling and screaming. The policewoman made it plain that I wasn't going to be penalized for the damage to his car because he was a doctor and had embezzled the funds to buy the car with in the first place. He left and I was about to, when the policewoman reached into her policecar and pulled out a toaster oven and handed it to me. I knew that this was the equivalent of a ticket. She said it was for the first car that I'd hit and proceeded to give me a lecture on driver safety. I suffered a bit of whiplash in the accident, and when I woke up, I discovered that there was (and is) a pain in the center of my back, between my shoulderblades. (G)