Thursday, August 13, 2015

I LOVE THE SOUND OF SEAWEED BLADDERS POPPING IN THE MORNING



Saturday, 9:30 AM, June 13, 2015, The Green Store, Hermosa Beach




"I look like a hippopotamus," June signed.

"No you don't," Kate reassured her.

June Baker leaned on her roommate Kate Walters and limped into The Green Grocery Store.


“Late start this morning?” the clerk asked. The girls were regular customers. Every morning they walked from Hermosa Beach to the Manhattan Beach Pier and back. June was determined to have a healthy baby and keep her figure. She was very sensitive about her weight.  The baby wasn’t due until October but she looked like she was ready to give birth to triplets at any moment.


“Do you have peroxide?” Kate asked. June had stepped on a seaweed air bladder to hear it pop and something on it must have irritated her foot. They guess that maybe it was some chemical from the recent oil spill.  

June was one of those people who couldn’t resist snapping bubble wrap. She also enjoyed popping seaweed air bladders on her morning walks. There wasn’t an actual cut but her toes were sore and red, so June was going to soak them in peroxide just to be safe.




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