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Ten Word Tuesday.

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“Do you need an escort for the deck?”

This was the question that rang out as Bossy’s alarm sounded at 5:30 this morning.

“Do you need an escort for the deck?”

In Bossy’s dream, she was standing at the front desk of a police precinct, and she was there for free maps. She was standing at the front desk of a police precinct for free maps because she was driving an enormous passenger bus.

Bossy was driving an enormous passenger bus because she had just broken up with her boyfriend, a faceless boyfriend. Or she nearly broke up with this boyfriend, the result was sketchy—but Bossy does remember that after she had a meeting with this boyfriend in a large resort hotel where maybe they broke up or didn’t, Bossy was asked to drive an enormous passenger bus.

“Do you need an escort for the deck?” the precinct officer asked Bossy in the dream, and by this he meant, “Do you need a police escort as you cross the wide expanse of bridge?” Because in the dream, Bossy’s bus was poised at the bottom of a bridge and she was having a difficult time maintaining the speed limit due to the bus’s governor—and “governor” was the exact word Bossy used to describe her problem to the precinct officer even though she’s never used the word governor in her life.

Bossy accepted the escort offer, and she wanted to tell the precinct officer how wild it was that she never uses words like “governor” in her real life—just like she has never described the expanse of a bridge as a “deck” even though she’s pretty sure it’s exactly what a precinct officer would say—but as Bossy moved her lips to explain these things, the alarm pulled Bossy from her subconscious. And there she was in her dark room—no precinct, no bus, no bridge deck.

Which is what today’s Ten Word Challenge is all about: in exactly ten words, can you tell Bossy about your dream last night?

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  20. Couldn’t stop laughing about that ‘free map’ – must be the same as the one, excuse me, 2 I was trying to print out from the net last night that HAD to be bigger than 8 1/2 x 11!

    Last night’s dreams? More than 3 hours ago – no clue!

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