dieORlive?

Monday-March 21, 2005 (IRELAND): It was just as the day ended, sitting beside a rusted and decaying red brick fence, staring out somewhere within the horizon...
     "I wonder why things are the way they are..." I sort of asked this to myself.
     Just then, David Letterman replied, "You don't know that answer?"
     "No." I told him.
     He then began to explain it to me as he was sitting beside that fence picking flowers, "Well... its simple, really. When I was a young lad, middle-aged...you know? A long while back. I used to be able to buy myself a candy at the local candy shop. A big candy! Like an entire case of chocolate bars, each less than a penny a piece. Now, I go to the store and I try to buy one candy bar and they're charging me almost a dollar. A DOLLAR!? What, are they mad or something? Then I asked myself, 'Why is it do you think prices rise?' And... to my complete amazement I had an answer to that question: Prices rise because people are too thick headed to leave the prices where they are. I mean... why raise a candy from even a penny to a dollar? Where's the logic in that? Politics. Its all politics."
     At this point I was saying to myself, "Letterman, did you take your med's lately? You're losing it."
     He replied, "Of course not. They cost too much. I usually just stare at them in the bottle and imagine them working because if I actually used them then I'd have to buy some more."
     At this time I realized where he was going with this conversation, but, Just as I was about to ask him the question that would explain everything, he said, "I think its time for you to go. Wake up now." And, so I did.