Tina stepped into the dank old office. It was furnished with brown ripped leather seats, which where surrounded by tyres. Tina confidently glided over the counter and rang the bell…There was no reply, she rang the bell again…Nothing. Tina getting utterly frustrated shouted “Uhm HELLO!”

Finally an old man aged in his fifties appeared behind the counter. His attire was very distasteful, an old Singlet shirt, that appeared to nearly have every fast food meal stained on it. Not to mention the stains from perspiration under his armpits. His eyes an interestingly coloured green. A ***** clutch between his coffee stained teeth. His square chin, stood out so much that Tina started to stare intently, seeing if it would ever change shape. His face was wrinkly and tattered by the sun, his arms as brown as mud. His head bald and polished almost as shinny as a bowling ball.

“What.” Was his reply. His voice old and musty, like the cigarette he was consuming.
“I’m here to see if someone can fix my car. I had an accident about half an hour ago. Its not much, a broken windshield, a back bumper bar and two tail lights.” Tina informed the brown man.

“Thats the one…” She turned and pointed out the dusty window to her partial dinged Porsche’.
Tina looked back to see the guys eyebrows had risen and was now clearing his throat. He pulled out a piece of paper from under the counter; he then grabbed an old pencil.

“What year is it?” he questioned, glancing into Tina’s eyes, then back to his greasy piece of paper.
“2003.” Tina simply replied. “Make?” Came the man’s gruph voice. “Porsche’: Carrera GT.”
The man glanced up in shock. “Did you say a CARRERA GT?”
“Yeah I did.” Tina looking at her watch.
“And you want to get it fixed here? At my shop? This ***** hole?” His voice rising with excitement.
“Yeah I do. I figured you would help me out by getting some cheap parts.”
“Lady, not meaning to be blunt at all, but you can’t put cheap ***** parts, on something as smooth as that ride…Tell you what I’ll get the best parts I can, but as cheap as they will go?” Tina shrugged her shoulders at the man.
“Sure why not.” was her reply.
“All right doll-face we can do that for you. I’ll give you a call when she’s ready.” Tina shivered in disgust at the old mans ‘doll face’ remark. Tina had always thought cutesy names like that were degrading to women.
“Uh that would be great.” Tina flashed the old man a fake smile.
“Don’t worry, she’ll be in the best hands, B’s a great mechanic.” The man finishing his sentence with a wink. Again Tina flashed the man a fake smile, she then left her details and walked out the unbearable, stinky office.

Once out the door and out of everyone’s eye-site, Tina looked up to the bright blue sky and asked the heavens “Is the whole world full of Slim-balls?” Expressing her impatients by lifting her hands into the air, Her fingers pointing to the sky, jolting her arms higher in one swift movement.

Tina walked down the road and around the corner to a small park. She sat on the bench and observed her surroundings. How everything had a place and a purpose, yet Tina thought that she wasn’t meant to be here and she didn’t really have a purpose. She was single and no one REALLY cared about her. Her life only consisting of study and a job. Nothing kind and gentle, nothing warm and loving. Her life was lacking the most important things, and she felt so left out and drained from everything else. There was no one to go home to. Just the TV, the VCR and the stereo. Nothing human. ‘Maybe I should get a cat to keep me company?’ Tina thought. Even though a cat wasn’t human, least she had some form of life that depended on her and loved her. Yet she also looked at the negatives of the situation. She had to buy food for it, the clean up after it and so on and so forth. ‘I hardly have anytime to do half things I wanted to do.’ She told herself.
Tina’s eyes scanned the small park until that stopped on a small child on the swings. Tina sighed inside. She had always loved kids. She knew that she was far too young to have one right now and she wasnt finacially set up for a child either. But one day she will. The little girl burst out with laughter every time she went up. Tina could see the childs happiness and love that she got from her parents. The little girls loosely curled brown locks flowed in the wind. Tina watched how the childs blue eyes grew bigger as she soared into the heavens.
It made Tina laugh and forget about her bad day.
Tina knew deep down inside that she will find her love. Maybe not today or tomorrow, yet she will find her match. And one day they will have children of there own, so she could do what the little girls mother was doing, pushing her daughter on the swing, making her laugh and fill with joy.

Tina sighed her troubles away and stayed at the park for a little longer. All she wanted to do was sit and watch. Thinking what her life was going to be like after college. And her little house on the outskirts of LA with a picket fence and Irises growing with the pink daisies in the front. While in the back was the BBQ and the pool.
Tina took a deep appreciated breath. She knew one day things will happen and in some ways, them not happening right now was a good thing, because she was already stressed enough as it is. She pushed herself off the bench and walked back the way that she came. Her mind was thinking of her future and her heart was thinking of the people she would soon come to love.