-MAD MAX Beyond Thunderdome (1985 Film)
Twenty-five years ago today:
July 26, 1985
Friday
I woke early and did my five-hundred sit-ups. Then I walked from my house to Morris Landy FORD on Park Street. My car was done and my convertible top was complete repaired. The total damage to me was nine-hundred dollars! I can use the loss on my income tax this year. What a bum rap!
I went to Great Western Savings and consolidated my two IRA Accounts. Hurrah.
I popped over at mom’s house and had some cold cereal while watching ‘The Young and The Restless’ with mom and Ashley. Helen stopped by as did my brother, John. I invited mom and Helen to lunch. We ate at the Ice Cream Dock.
After lunch Helen and I went to lay out by the Islandia Townhouse Recreation pool. A mosquito bit me and it itches—or was it a killer bee? The killer bees are loose in Kern County I’ve heard.
I returned home to a phone call from Dale Orlando.
“Michael, I just wanted to remind you that we are telling everyone that we did WIN as contestants on Wheel of Fortune. We are just saying that we’re on the waiting list.”
“Okay, I got it…don’t worry.”
“I just want to make sure that our stories won’t mix.”
Rachelle Davies called me, too.
“Michael, do you want to go to a movie or something?”
“Sure.”
First, I went to the gym from 6PM-7:30PM. I picked up Rachelle at Danee’s house. Danee’s new date, Dave, showed up. He’s a definite body-builder type but he doesn’t look very well proportioned. He’s kind of fat in some parts if you ask me. He needs to do only aerobics for about eight months. Anyway, the plan was for all four of us to double-date. It didn’t work out that way though. They left. We left. Rachelle was being a bitch.
“I don’t want to see MAD MAX I said! I don’t think I want to see a movie now after all.”
“It’s always the same old story with you!”
It is times like this that I wish I were in Paris.
What finally happened was a visit to a liquor store for refreshments followed by a drive to the Union City Drive-In movie theaters to see MAD MAX.
Before we arrived at the liquor store she was crying in my car and said, “I want you to know that I think about your past every day.”
It bugged me to hear her say that. She can’t seem to let all of that go. So hell—I said it:
“Look Rachelle, that’s your problem…not mine!”
During the MAD MAX movie she had her head turned and was watching E.T in the other theater. I was munching out. I took off my pants to relax. She would only kiss me a few times (with reluctance). When the MAD MAX movie ended Rachelle wanted to leave.
“Don’t you want to see the beginning of the next movie…at least?”
She started crying out loud to the point that I couldn’t take it anymore.
I thought, “Hell, I’ll just drop her off at her house and go to Bobby McGee’s and meet a respectable, mature woman.”
She was literally bawling her eyes out, telling me that this episode reminded her of Norman. Norman was the guy who was charged with assault and kidnapping years ago. I can’t take her anymore. I just can’t.
I thought, “She has my chess set. I want it back. She also took my box that my brother, Tony, made for me in his wood shop class. And I know she stole one of my cards—the guy in his underwear that had the imprint I LOVE YOU.”
I knew it wasn’t the right time to bring these things up that were circulating in my mind.
I decided to ask anyway about the card.
“What happened to that greeting card I had of that guy in his underwear that you were looking at?”
“Oh I don’t know…it’ll turn up,” Rachelle said.
I know she took it. I want my house key back, too. The damn bitch has bit and hit me in one nerve too many.
I dropped Rachelle off. I drove straight home to Alameda. I didn’t feel like drinking anymore. I telephoned her when I got home. I didn’t have much to say—nor did she. As far as I’m concerned I want our relationship to be OVER. It’s not working. She’s calling me selfish and all does NOT help. I need a long break from this one.
"Ain't we a raggity pair?"
-MAD MAX Beyond Thunderdome (1985 Film)
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