Half a Dollar Ago

[michaelboy]

Years ago, I put 50 cents in the machine, pulled the handle and with a boom at the bottom of a sheet metal tray out came a fresh pack of Marlboro cigarettes.

It felt good, but then so did the hope to find someone who found my young self, desirous - someone who would want to lustfully tangle their arms around me.

It's been a very long time, since I smoked a cigarette.

Comments

[keplers_angels]

When I was a young smoker, I often lamented that they'd torn out all the cigarette machines just before my time.

My mother has a story about meeting one of her ex boyfriends. They were in a bar looking for love and one asked the other for a cigarette and they bought some from the vending machine. Neither of them smoked. But they did have a romance for several years.