surronded by atomic weapons/ part 1

surrounded by atomic weapons

fiction
Edward w Pritchard

No matter what is said about the security of still being surrounded by atomic weapons it is difficult to adjust to my move from Russia to the United States. As an example there are dozens of kinds of Vodka in America but few people can afford to drink it. In Russia no matter how poor and without cash we were we could wash away our sorrows with glass after glass of cheap world quality Vodka.

There is plenty to do in America to fill up your time. You can walk and walk around the stores looking and wishing about things you can't afford to buy. In Russia what you don't need is never presented to you; here in America you are deluged with advertisements and exposure to expensive items. Items abound that you are slowly taught to want and dream about but will never afford here in America. Every few weeks there is another important Holiday that require everyone to buy their few friends expensive presents. Also each Holiday requires it's unique colors and decorations to be purchased. Red white and blue for July 4, orange at Halloween and red and gold for Christmas. I like Halloween best for the American women wear shear costumes and walk about dressed naughtily for a few weeks.

In Russia beautiful women walk around in the cold heavily dressed dreaming of owning a fine new America style automobile. In America you drive about in a fine American auto that is very old and in need of overhaul. The brakes are shot and the suspension is sagging. Policeman stop you routinely to check your mandatory requirements to drive. Car insurance, proper racial profile, and appropriate attitude. Usually the American police are very polite once they have called in your license to headquarters and you pass the profiled background screen. In Russia you are seldom stopped but if you are it's trouble of a serious nature. In America if you are non moving violation traffic stopped you receive warning to bring your vehicle up to code with expensive repairs to the check engine light system at an auto dealership. While at the dealership you watch cable tv ads for new vehicles you can't afford. Car repairs are an important part of the American economy and as the road fleet of American cars ages the American police do what they can to insure that Americans spend a substantial portion of their meager incomes on auto related items. Auto insurance is mandatory in America and you can be sentenced to prison if you have expired insurance during a traffic frisk and if you have outstanding court fees and are the wrong racial profile. The American economy is a marvel of intricate inner working procedures that insure the world's highest gross standard of living. Policemen are paid and accrue retirement benefits properly only if the American economy produces a 3% or higher GDP growth.  Of course most people as individuals don't enjoy that highest standard of living in America but they are content because they know it's their own fault for not being properly educated and not working hard enough and not making proper investments in timely financial derivatives or bond ETF futures. Everyone in America believes they have equal access to the top tier of economic prosperity, to not believe such is to have a bad attitude and is labeled un Amerikan. A very bad state to be in.

In America individuals have rights. Individuals have rights because by their mere existence as consuming individuals American citizens provide the means of keeping everybody else working and prospering. At least that's how it's supposed to work. Every American citizen is allowed access to all the fine luxury goods made in America, and there are magazines full of luxury items. Each magazine advertises page after page of the required accoutrements required for American life. For men expensive  gym memberships to chisel the abs and for women $2,000 leather purses to carry their money in and credit cards in. Women are not allowed to be overweight in America, not by law but by custom. Weight sanction in America against women is enforced by celebrities who are thin by nature. Now and then American magazines or digital ads show American women a diminutive celebrity such as Kelly Ripa who was born to always be 5' 0,  95 lbs and has had chiseled abs since she was a cheerleader in junior high and later College.

I am adjusting to my moving to America and I appreciate the many opportunities living in America provides me. Although I have never seen any of the Atomic weapons that keep me safe here in Amerika I am sleeping well knowing they are near. Also I have marked my digital on line calendar for Halloween to see what kind of skimpy orange costume Kelly Ripa will wear on American television. Of course I don't have expensive American cable but I can go to the car dealership and watch her while I have my check engine light checked next Fall.

Now if I can only adjust to missing good Russian Vodka.