S. Khubiar's Blog - Posts Tagged "nightmares"

I had another nightmare last night. I don't have them as often anymore, but nightmares and dreams have a way of sucking you outside of time. I was getting ready for work, and I couldn't find the keepers for my duty belt. I kept feeling around for them, not understanding why they wouldn't be where they always were. I looked around, and there was a room full of delinquent-looking teenagers around me. One girl kept popping her gum.

A military intelligence guy in BDUs walked up and took my equipment away. My keys, Echo 6. Radio 152. Cuffs. I went to my office, but I couldn't open it without the keys. All I had was an empty duty belt.

I wanted to reprimand the gum-popper, but it didn't seem like it would do any good. From the looks in their eyes, the teenagers were too far gone to threaten or mentor. They would age into their adult crimes, and I would deal with them then. But then again, I was finished. Those who took my place would handle it. But I think maybe those were the teenagers.

Retirement is great. And the nightmares will eventually stop. It was just disk defrag. As nightmares go, it wasn't a bad one.