Ever bite the side of your tongue and then you keep biting the same damn spot for the rest of the day? That's kind of what's happening to me with a new neon sign across the street at the Cedar Country Boy (see: Inconvenience Store post)
Above the entryway of the Country Boy, there used to be a tiny clock with lit up red numbers that you could hardly see. Last week it was replaced with an ATM sign with super bright green letters that I see the second I look out the window, not unlike Kramer and the Kenny Rogers Chicken sign on Seinfeld. Every time I raise my head, all I see is
ATM
HELP ME!
It makes me feel like I need to go across the street and take out money, even though I have no money. I close my eyes for a few seconds and all I see are blurry purple letters ATM floating around... they're burned onto the back of my eyelids. I think about it when I close my eyes and try to sleep. If somebody were to get hit by a car in front of the coffee shop, I fear that all I would do is look up, gaze at the ATM sign and forget to call 911.
I can only handle a few more days of this and then I'm going to have to go over and clip the cord that feeds it electricity. But that would do no good... I have a feeling it would keep burning bright like Lady Libery's torch.
Nothing can stop the ATM sign, and nothing can keep me from looking at it. Perhaps I should wear tanning bed goggles.
For the love of God, make it stop...
