Line up, single file

went down to join the huddled masses. sign-up for extra work. you would think this work was for a factory paying $25 an hour by the big crowd it drew. it's more McWages, but it's McWages paid for being on a movie or TV set, so folks do it. must have been 200 people. one dude in a business suit cut in line in front of everyone. didn't cut in front of me, but the people behind me. they didn't say anything. another lady there looked like she was a gal from the 80s, dressed in her best clubbing outfit of denim jump suit. always the danger as you get older, you could have missed the retro-bells going off, signifying this look is cool again. amazing how many good-looking people trying to be extras. you always think that it's just scruffy mammen, but actually it's folks better looking than you and me. the kid behind me in line said that he hoped the casting directors would see his face and he'd get discovered. Oops. We all paid $20 bucks to have them take a picture they put on computer for us. $20. Times 200. Remind me not to rob a liquor store when I get desparate, but this place on a Mon, Wed. or Friday (sign-up days). Easily four thousand dollars in cash they took in today. the women signing us in seemed rather despondent, complained that life was all about getting up and going to work, then coming home and paying bills. and cooking and cleaning for everyone. life does seem more of its usual absurdist joke to me lately usually I laff at it, but lately it seems less funny than stupid and sad