What are you thinking&;#063;

'What do you think we should do?'
'I say we bury it.'
'Under the patio?'
'Nooo. Too obvious&;#8230;'

Well he seemed to know what he was doing. I just followed. I made the
occasional suggestion, but luckily he was perceptive enough to identify
them as useless. We wouldn't have got so far if we'd listened to me.
That could be a good thing, but I thought I'd save him the trouble and
didn't bother to suggest.

'Now what?'
'We wait.'
'Ok.'

'What are we waiting for?'
'What everybody's waiting for. An idea for what they should be
doing.'

That sounded reasonable enough to me. But, to be honest with you, I
don't think most people needed an idea like we did. I would've killed
for an idea. One that wasn't useless anyway.

'How about that?'
'Guess.'
'Useless?'
'Useless.'

Well I wasn't having much luck with the idea thing. I wasn't having
much luck with anything at the time. I'm not having much luck now.
In-between then and now though, I guess you could say I was pretty
lucky. But that luck only goes so far as it can with a person with base
bad luck. Not very clever. Not clever. Planks featured in most people's
description of me. That's unlucky, isn't it? To be compared with wood?
Well I guess some guy's would like that. I know he would, but we
decided not to talk about it. He said it was for the best, and I
agreed.

'Ok. I'm going to go now.'
'Now?'
'Yeh, why would I want to stay?'

And there he went. He said he'd send me some money, so that's ok, isn't
it? Well I'm here at the 'Unlucky Now' bit&;#8230;now. What changed
over the past five minutes, apart from my socks? Probably the
realisation, that he actually isn't coming back. But maybe that's a
good thing, and I can suggest it, because it's not a useless idea. I'm
not sure if it counts as an idea though, more a thought probably. Well
a good thought is better than a useless idea, surely.

'Hello. How are you? You're looking a bit blue, today. You look blue
everyday.'

Walls don't talk much. Even ones that are blue and look like they need
to tell someone their problems. Maybe they're just reflecting mine.