A boy needed a ride home today so he ordered me on his phone you're supposed to be an adult to ride but it's hard to look at a kid and say no I can't take you where you need to go today so he stumbled in told me he just got a haircut and had his ears pierced we talked about cars his dad has a Volkswagen he asked me if I believed in spirits and I told him not so much he said he did asked me if I wanted to know why
I said okay he told me he believed in spirits because his sister was taken over by one she died last year he said
I went to turn and he ushered me to go straight into the neighborhood then take a left said the other way would take us an extra fifteen minutes
his way was shorter but only by a moment ten or twenty seconds maybe
he held a bag of chips in his hand left me a tip of five dollars said he wished he had more
I don't know if the money was his but I didn't want it.
Jason Brendel
Jason Brendel is an author, poet, and comedian from Northern California. Navigate the buttons below to follow him on social media or purchase his collection of laugh-out-loud poetry on Amazon.
