Another Strange One ...

I dreamed I was at a gathering of some sort, like a reunion. I'd come there with an aunt, long dead now. When things started to peter out, I went to find my aunt so we could go and she'd left without me. Mother was at the gathering somewhere but I could not find her, then I found out she'd also left. A man who was an avatar of a judge I used to work with showed up and said he lived in the same town as me but wouldn't offer to take me home. He was in what looked like a sort of delivery truck, like a UPS vehicle. Several young men were lounging around, but no one offered me a ride home. I looked out onto the road, my mind saw the series of highways and roads I'd have to take if I walked home, realized it would take me days to get home, and decided to call a cab, and just offset the cost by not eating for a couple of days. Also during the gathering, someone had given me a zippered plastic bag with plastic jewelry in it. Beaded necklaces, things like that. Bracelets. I woke still pondering how I should get home.