So. As I tried to tell you at the beginning of this journey, this is one hell of a way to celebrate your fiftieth birthday. On a shelf, in a pawn shop, in a city. Being a lean, mean goose attractin" machine doesn"t mean squat in here. This is about what I figured was gonna happen. Ol" Butch just put me up on the shelf with the others. He put me in the middle and I sure make the others look like chunks of cordwood. He hung a price tag around my neck, and sure enough, he put a three hundred dollar price on me. I don"t know if I should feel good about that, or if I should be offended. I just wish someone would walk in that door, take one look at me, and rescue me. Maybe Butch is right, maybe I am lucky to be here. I"ve been here two months. Two disgustingly long months. Lots of people c

