5 a.m. Appointment
Long-in-the-Tooth used to walk into my house and use the phone without bothering to knock first. Exciting - a woman without a sense of boundaries! Then, she was evicted after suing her landlord because she fell down some steps.

Despite losing her digs, she kept coming around. One morning at 4 a.m., driving past the old place, she fell asleep and drove into a post. Now she was in anguish: not because of the ruined car, but because she had an appointment.

So, as she spoke in tongues and her eyes rolled into her head, I drove her to the clinic - a methadone clinic (explaining a lot), where an amazing and patient crowd of people had gathered at 5 a.m.: didn't even know the place was there!

Know Thy Neighbor!
(Perv With A Dog had his eyes pecked out by scrub jays on, Thu 25 Aug 2005, 20:27, Reply)