Wednesday, February 26, 2014

How to Buy a Toyota Corolla


1. Sell your first book for several hundred thousand dollars. You had a charmed life but still managed to write gritty detective fiction as if you had grown up in Raymond Chandler’s nightmares. Brilliant.

2. Buy a Ford Mustang. God, you always loved that car for some reason. The cool kids used to have them and now you are one of them. You did it.

3. Marry that bitch Jennifer. You love her and it seems like she loves you. But don’t worry. It won’t last.

4. Sell your Mustang during the divorce. Of course, she won’t sell all those goddamn shoes she bought online while you were struggling to match the success of your debut novel.

5. Don’t even worry about transportation just yet. Tell yourself it’s actually a good thing that you had to sell your Mustang. Nothing is preventing you from sitting down and writing. Use everything you are feeling and write.

6. Despite the focus and emotion, fail. No one will like this book. Why isn’t it more like the last one? Why haven’t you gotten any better since the last one?

7. Settle for the job with the friend of your dad because, hey, you have to eat.

8. In order to get to this tomb of a job you are going to need a car. Your friend Barry who you don’t talk to as much since his wife is Jennifer’s best friend will take you to get the Corolla.

9. Congratulations, you have successfully bought a Toyota Corolla!

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