Out of Gas by Randy Dyess

Author:Randy Dyess
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Men's Adventure, Fiction
ISBN: 9781480096646
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2012-10-10T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

The next morning, after waking up later than normal, no one felt like getting dressed and going out for breakfast. Mark wanted to expand his cooking skills, so he offered to try his hand at making breakfast for the entire family. He prepared a breakfast of eggs, bacon, biscuits, and gravy, but threw in a potato, onion, and bell pepper hash to use up some of the leftovers from yesterday’s party. Everyone said the breakfast was great and even loved the sliced, cooked tomatoes he whipped up at the last minute. Mark and Kelly had been trying to figure out how to use unneeded food and leftovers so their food waste was kept to the minimum. Reusing the tomatoes for breakfast was a perfect way to find another use for the leftover ones from the party. “You’re getting to be quite the cook,” Kelly joked, as she was helping Mark wash up.

He turned to her and said, “Why don’t you take the kids over to your mom’s this morning. I’m sure they would love to see them and it will give me a chance to try to write down everything I can remember from our conversation yesterday. Once you get back we can go over my notes and add anything I’ve missed.”

“That sounds good. I haven’t talked to mom in a few days, so I think I will spend the morning with them as well. That should give you enough time to go over everything, make your notes, do the research you so much love to do, and organize your thoughts before I get home. I’ll give you until lunch and I’ll leave the kids at mom’s house for the afternoon. I’ll come back right after lunch and we can go over everything you’ve come up with.”

“Sounds like a plan,” Mark replied, “Why don’t you get the kids ready and I’ll finish up here?”

After seeing Kelly and the kids off, Mark went up to his office and started making notes on everything he remembered from the discussions with Owen and Donna. It took him several hours and multiple passes of remembering yesterday conversations, making notes, and rereading his notes before he was convinced he had captured everything he wanted. As he was looking over the notes one final time, Mark started thinking about the financial conversations they had with the Millers. He knew now Owen and Donna believed in a worse future for America than he and Kelly believed. Based on his own research and conversations, Mark was convinced Plains and other airlines would fold up and Kelly’s job would either disappear or be seriously reduced in salary. He had never put together everything he had learned with the overall effect on the world. He knew the overall effect Peak Oil would have on the economy, but he had never thought deeply enough to realize how much everything would change. A part of him believed he and Kelly would go to different jobs without any changes in their lives other than those caused by the reduction in their salaries.

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