Courtroom Shuffle...

The security guard in the Federal State Building was a very un-charming soulless being.
With his black striped pants and one squinted eye he yelled at us down the hallways.
“Where are you going?”

The disenchanting court scenario is always a prolonging experience. They were running behind schedule, so we listened to the guard talk about being a warden in the New Mexico jails. He went on about how they would try to make jail house wine with rotten fruit and yeast. They could smell it brewing so they would shake down the place and find all the things the prisoners were hiding.

I mentioned how the jails in Arizona were really bad and he acted as if the Sheriff Joe Arpaio is some kind of hero to him and that he really knew what he was doing and how to make them pay their dues so to speak. I just nodded in disbelief and just kept my mouth shut the rest of the time.

I already didn’t like him now and I could tell he was so scared of his own shadow, being a cop in New Mexico had some effect on him. But now he was just a guard and he was more of an empty shell of a body letting the system wear him down. He went on about a new subject now it was a vacation he had taken with his wife to Ireland. He kept complaining as if everything that had happen on the trip was a rip off from the very beginning or some kind of tourist scam. He said “They didn’t even roll out the red carpet for us when we got there.”

Just because he was American in some far away haunted castle in Ireland, I guess he thought he would get some kind of special treatment. Acting like he had been scammed by the car rental place for being a tourist, he thought it was fine if the prisoners never got to watch television except two channels the Disney and News channel and be in 120 degree tents.

I don’t think he realized he was in his own jail everyday; he just never will enjoy life and all of its beauty the way you do in happiness. Something I knew so well after living on the tiny island of isolation for so long. The roads were to narrow to pull over to take any photos they thought. Maybe it is their narrow minded way of thinking that stopped them from enjoying the vacation. While he went away for a break the other security guard said “Well his wife and him were just two lost people over there.”
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