Monday, June 23, 2025
Time: 7:15 PM
Song: Dreams
Artist: The
Cranberries
Mode of Consumption: Listening
to the radio at Jodi’s Mom’s house.
Jodi had a story to share today.
Her co-worker’s daughter is a Travelling CN and has spent the last 13 weeks in Arizona. She completed that stint last week, and her boyfriend then flew from Chicago to help her pack up stuff and drive back across the country.
In Colorado, he broke up with her. She called her parents after dropping him off at an airport in Nebraska.
It’s quite a story.
My writer’s mind sees it as one of those Indy film plots. Maybe even filmed in black-and-white.
Guy breaks up with girl on a cross-country trip.
She pulls over and leaves him beside the road in some desolate part of Colorado or Nebraska.
We follow him. Maybe discover why he decided to break up. Maybe her absence had made him realize that he liked having her away. Maybe he was tired of her always being away. Maybe he was cheating on her. Maybe he was recognizing homosexual urges within himself. Could be a lot of things.
He ambles into some dusty town. Befriends a stranger. Maybe a down-on-her luck waitress. Or some wild western ranch hand. Something like that.
Maybe we cut to her, crossing the country distraught. She picks up a hitchhiker and has an ill-advised encounter with this person. Maybe she lands in some dingy hotel unable to make herself continue the drive. Losses her purse, her phone. You know, sort of symbolically wiping her former identity clean. Does she rise like the Phoenix?
It’s a treasure
trove of plot ideas. What do they learn? Where do they end? Back together?
Farther apart? Both alone?
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