THIS IS A TRUE STORY.
It happened JanuFairary 25 2014 through January 29th
while visiting a friend in MidTown Manhattan
Crazy Suzy
On Sunday Night
Suzan called, an we chatted, it was very pleasant. She was speaking
slow and calm and taking breaks which meant she was puffing on her
crack pipe. So whatever, I was hoping she was done with that but was
not too surprised. She also casually mentioned that she wants to
update and add to her website, because I'd threatened to take it down
a month ago if she doesn't start paying the $10 per month server fee.
Anyway, we've been
talking a bit and it hasn't been unpleasant and when she says stupid
things I just take it for granted that she is, after-all, stupid.
Sunday Night our
conversation got really cutsie, and being a tad drunk myself, she
BEGGED me to come see her. NOW. Put you Pants on NOW!
“should I stick my
weenie back in”
“YES, take your
weenie with you”
“I'll even zip
up”
“I'm telling you, just DO it.”
“Sneakers going on
now”
I cracked up, maybe
she got it maybe she didn't. Older people don't always get brand
awareness jokes.
Got in the car and
drove there without a hitch, parked on the curb, and she was right,
lots of spaces!
So throughout the
evening we were having fun chatting and catching up, she showed me a
pile of cluttered papers she wanted to do something, and I explained
I'd have to bring my scanner in for some of this, we discussed the
Warhol Archives she has, and that she wanted originally to sell high
quality reprints of them. I leafed through some stuff but it was not
the time to work, so I just put them down and said we'd take a look
at them tomorrow.
A few times she got
on the phone, but not indicating it was a dealer, no names like
usual, no frantic 'Where the fuck are you? GET OVER HERE!!!' kind of
talk. But I figured she might have someone coming. Anyway, I was
tired and she said well, go to bed then. We kept on talking while I
was in bed , full knowing she probably wouldn't be there for a while,
and I wouldn't sleep or a while.
But I could tell she
was doing lots of crack, I could hear the little tingle of small
rocks in her ashtray, and sometimes a scraping. Asked me if I had a
razor blade earlier, but no, I did not, this time.
She didn't offer me
any and I didn't ask for it. Didn't want this to turn into an all
niter for both of us. Figured, I'm drunk and happy, I'll go to sleep no matter
what she does. She comes back in some hour later.
“You don't know
what I've just done.”
“What?”
“You don't want to know”
“It's gonna do...
something.... that... that.. if you were say, isolated..or with the,
right form of character and intention it would be, no wait it would...... be .. they would kill me and I would die”
So she went on like
this for a while. We cuddled a bit. But damn she was chain smoking.
Not very attractive. And really didn't seem interested in me. But
then whatever. Then she was interested in me, what am I doing, she
talked about Natasha, she talked about other stuff and I put the news
on because it was far more interesting to watch people actually kill each
other. Then we heard it.
The largest blizzard in the History
of New York City! No Kidding. This. Is. It. We marveled at that for a
while. She got scared, and started pantomiming scary crying, I never
know if she's serious or not. Then - and I have no idea how the weather got her to this place again - she went into her "I'm sick. I'm
gonna die. I'm ugly, my life is over. Don't be surprised if you find
me on the sidewalk tomorrow when you get up to make my goddamn eggs
on my goddamn toast. Eat them all, I won't be here. And she cried
again .NOBODY LOVES ME, NOBODY CARES."
“ I care.. I love your eg-”
“NO YOU DON'T!! I
KNOW IT... YOU KNOW IT. You just want to come over here and fuck me
like every other dirty old man. Don't laugh, it's NOT FUNNY. You
never cared. Not one bit. You know it and I know it.
"But sweetie, we don't fuck. That's now much I care about you as a friend"
You're LYING!
Okay, this goes on
for a while, again, and I try not to smile. Because I know it will end soon,
and she'll be serious and nice with me again in about an hour.
The dire news of the
impending killer blizzard continues.
“You can't go tomorrow,
not in that weather”
Oh goodie, sanity again.
Obviously I had not
planned on staying, had no toothbrush, one pair of underwear, a nice
shirt, nice jacket. And my fancy jeans. That's all. Not staying. But
oh what the heck, I had nothing better to do. Figured it
might be fun to stay inside while the world writhed in it's last
dying sight of any summer ever to come again, and we played with each other. Throughout the night
she'd ask me for updates. The TV was off, and I'd pretend to
know, and then pretend to not know, you know, just to mix it up.
Now the next day,
Tuesday, there was really not much of the snowblind we were led to expect. It was very tame. I took her ShiTsu for a walk. As I
was out there I got out of breath. And getting a bit dizzy.
When I got back I knew I had to lie down. I was
detoxing, a day and a half after the fact, and
shaking uncontrollably unless flat in bed. She handed me a glass of
juice and I almost shook the liquid out of it. I
was sweaty, my eyes popping, I could barely walk, I was getting
vertigo if I turned my head or tried to stand up.
She repeatedly asked
me with sincere concern if I wanted to go the hospital, almost insisting that I do. I told her, as sanely and calmly as possible, It's okay SuzyWoozy, I'll
be okay, this happens sometimes and believe me, it looks much worse
than it feels. Heck, I could do this all day, and in fact, I think I
will!
It felt horrible.
This is a new
phenomenon for me, happened only three times before. And after a
painful sweat stench, all sticking to everything, the uncomfortable dizzy would gradually ease
off and though wobbly I could finally make it to the bathroom. When I
feel these things coming on I usually fill as large a jug as I can
find with water, or Gatoraide. ( I like the blue flavor). Gonna be a long wet night. Can't dehydrate! Alka
Seltzer, an ibuprofen or two, and some fruits to keep my stomach
doing something, anything. After a while it passes. Drink too much
water and I throw up the water, apples, Ibuprofen, and aspirin if I
thought to take it. Then I feel MUCH better. Still the vertigo, won't let me roll over fast without that sick nauseating feeling. Not 'oh
the room is spinning' but gravity seems to pull in EVERY direction
and there is no focus, and the brain feels like a sponge given a
slight electric current and it is just loosely sloshing around, while
one eyeball literally spins in it's socket, unable to control itself.
This is not the 'hangover or I'm Too Drunk spinning, this is from some tiny particle of protien, or calcium break off that found its way into the
inner ear, our place where gravity and angular momentum are determined, and seems to happen whenI drink too much water. It commonly happens to athletes, apparently their head shakes things so much there's a better chance of some particle breaking looks and going in there. My
nose is running, my eyes are constantly tearing, even water gets in
my ear and Etruscan canals and makes blowing the nose as squeaky as a mad squirrel. I use lots of tissues, I throw in a plastic pail. And
sometimes I throw up into same plastic pail. It's painless
and mostly just water, and when I can walk, I just dump it down the
toilet and wash it out.
Only at Suzies, I'm
talking to her happily to show her nothing is really that wrong, and in the next beat say "Oh shit... get a big pot, I'm going to throw
up”. She runs into the kitchen and just in time comes back with a
big searing/stock pot. Works great. For a while, and then it happens all over
again. I hold the pot close, it's all very well contained, but
she puts towels under it like the dog after a bath. I'm fine, but
that's just her. Then it happens again. 20 minutes, we're talking
along and ''Oh no.... please...." and again as we are talking.
Yeah, this is really disgusting. Humiliating. Want to be over
with it already.
After that half day and one night I do get better, we had talked about alcohol and it's
effects. She used to be an alcoholic, and swore up and down to
Al-Anon. I agreed with her, honestly, not going overboard, but
instead just holding her fingers with my bile dripping palm.
See we usually get
into arguments because she likes to nag and insists something trivial needs to
be done NOW and I get all bullheaded and raise my voice, - okay this
is when we are sober. But I was drunk so I had decided rather than
bring out that rage, instead to surprise her though understanding,
praise and thanks.
And it was working!
We were getting along. She was being sweet and didn't mind
having to clean up after me, she explained if you're a parent you've seen that
hundreds of times and worse. Yup.
Next morning I'm
feeling much better, go to make breakfast. Come back and she's lying
in what looks like, and probably is, agony, Fibromyalgia is not a
head cold. In a dying whisper she asks me to go to the bodega and
get her two Dove bars. "Regular milk chocolate. Not dark"
“I remember, you
hate dark”
It had been two
years since we'd seen each other, but of course I remember if she
likes dark or light chocolate.
"No nuts."
"Aww, dear, sorry to hear that"
She attempted laughter, pretending
instead, the act was making things worse, which the chain smoked cigarettes did even better.
As I got there with
her credit card, I realized she's going to want two more as she
finishes these, and I asked her, and she replied no.. ONLY two. I
think she does this to tease me. Also got some Ginger Ale, as that
subject had been brought up when I was sick, it always seems to be
crisp burpy, fizzy and a happy tingley tang.
After about a half
hour she sends me back out for two more Dove bars. I get some ice
cream with it.
I melt the icecream
just a little, in the microwave, it's soft-serve, bring it to her with a napkin
and plate and she's hanging over forward on the edge of the bed, eyes closed, cigarette
dangling dangerously to the already burnt and moonlike pockmarked
bedspread. I put the icecream on the table next to her and get into
bed and cover up . We never get naked in bed, maybe fool around but
the underwear stays in place. Just as well. I don't want to think
about it. She is after all, bone skinny, where there used to be
plumps there are now wrinkled and sagging blobs.... it's
a turn off. But I can close my eyes, reach under the covers , and she's so soft. It's nice to be stroking
someone somewhere, lovingly, and have a hand reached for and fingers
played with, or toes massaged way up the legs beyond the point of
inappropriateness. On a physical level she's smooth and smells nice too, so I just let my eyes play tricks on me, my nose enjoys
the coconut and fresh nail polish, an emollient that contains
neither oil, grease, or oddly enough, gluten. (it contains chemicals
that must not be, indeed, cannot be pronounced), and fresh
distilled water. Think about it. Fresh AND distilled. Marketing...huh.She's like a little girl on the beach, not a tired bruised and scarred old half dead thing.
In a half an hour,
rubbing her toes, shes directing me around pressure points, and
sculpting them into a little person – yeah guys, you know the deal.
Whatever she wants or thinks, admit it... it really does make you
feel like... blowing chunks. But you do it anyway. You know, because
sex.
She holds out her now
gone cup of ice cream.
“More”
I'm now dreading a third trip to the Bodega, but when I return she's asleep
again, cigarette this time poised in front of her face sitting up in bed. She lies back
and cigarette falls out of her hand and onto her neck. She jumps up
and screams.
Now I would be
concerned if I saw that happening to my baby, my lover, my honey
bunny boo. Nah I just think it's fucking hilarious. It's so damn
predictable. Why earlier in the foot
massage she was rubbing Bacitracin over other burn marks on her
throat, shoulders, upper arms.
The cigarette then went
skittering under the food table, where I deftly caught it and gave it
back. She gave a little smile with a coquettish tilt of the head and said 'Thank you LeLers”.
I do like it when she does that. Back in her mouth it goes, fur and all. This will go on for … all night
sometimes. Except I pretend to be asleep if I'm not, and if I am
asleeeeep I'm thankfully very very far away...
“AHAAHHH!!”
wakes me up with a startle.
“Oh shit where did
it go!” She'd pop and start paddling the bed until a little red
spark would jump out, trailing embers, and she'd try to grab it, only
for it to go on the now candy wrapper and cookie crumb Pepsi splashed
ice cremed and dog fur strewn floor. And then back in her lips. And back into
slumberland.
Repeat after me.
“AAAAEEEHHH .. SHIT .OH. SHIT.. oh. Here it is” Funny, isn't it?
It still beats
actual sex with her.
Then a day of sleep. Too many Cookies, Ice Cream. Ginger ale.
Pomegranate Raspberry Crystal Lite
Then a day of sleep. Something else, no ice cream, just too many rye
bread with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches - Back and forth to the kitchen I go.
Orange juice is low. Pomegranate Raspberry Crystal Lite juice needs
to be made again.
Bread is all gone. She keeps holding her plate out and saying “can
I have just one more?”
I've had some
oatmeal and coffee. Splash of milk and some brown sugar. I've made a
couple actual dinners for myself, but nothing extravagant, the most
of which being Orzo, but only if you don't realize it's just huge
maggot sized pasta.
And a pot of rice
with a hot dog, and spices. She'd told me they were VERY good hot
dogs. If it's a cold day in NYC a Dachshund poop in casing would be good
too. But not as good as these, yummy!
And a small bowl of
salad with French dressing and a few olives.
A couple large over
battered chicken drumsticks from the freezer, several periods of time
ago, nobody quite remembers. So much so that they turn out to be chicken Tenders.
And then the manic
vacuuming begins. She jumps out of bed and OUT comes the vacuum and she literally chases me with it,
trying to clean up my dirt. Goes over her area with the filth from
the dog, the crumbs, the sodas, Ice cream and something that vaguely wigglesand tries to fly. She'd pound the end this way and that with
no end attachment and rabid futile jabs and pokes, nothing on the little hose to really
pick much up, and with sobs of "I slave over this, mommy can never do
enough.... maa haa haaa... everything is so dirty" This weird and
obsessive back and forth, here and there running around till the cord comes out of the wall used to make me very pissed off, however this
time I found it very entertaining. That is because she was bare
naked. (she was never naked in bed, only out where I could see her,)
and she was very flexible, very burlesque about it. I vowed
never to say anything about her vacuuming again.
The night before I'm
about to leave, she gets all grumpy with the 'everyone hates, me, you
don't care, just run home and forget me, that I'm in pain. You
couldn't care less. And by the way, you owe me $100. Not just for all
the food you ate that I had to buy as broke as I am, but for the anguish you've caused me , all the
hurt you've inflicted on me. All the cleaning up I had to do after
you!”
She had asked me
while I was sick and she wasn't, if she could get me anything, and I
thought about it, not being really hungry, okay, some Italian bread.
“Is that all?”
When she came back I saw the little bread on the kitchen counter, but
refrained from trying it until I'd offered her some too. She came in
and mentioned some Golden Raisins, 'I know you like those'
I think a couple
years ago I was munching on them because they were always there, and
all there was that could be nibbled on. I like the dark ones better,
but didn't say anything.
This all came to a little over $100.
“What? No way! What else did you get?”
She vaguely waves at
the rather full cupboard and says 'well, other stuff I thought you'd
like. Everything is expensive in the city. Oh, and I got the Corn
Flakes. I had indeed mentioned corn flakes although she had a bit of
Cheerios and some Rice Krispies, and I like those too. I didn't
really look, I assumed they were one of the boxes in there. One
morning I had a bowl, mixing the two together after looking for my
corn flakes she'd bought. They were no where to be found. I hadn't
really looked in the bag, or paid much attention to what was being
moved around the counter, there was I think a wet sponge involved,
but honestly? I was looking at the back of her very small fuschia
panties with the bright green piping that were starting to come down
a bit, over her nether lumps, that tail wagging around as she pushed
things back and forth on the counter. Last time I would have gently
run my fingers over a cheek and she'd giggle and say 'sthaaap it' and
I would, only to caress her shoulder or run my fingers down her lumpy
allasaurus backbone.
We weren't doing
that this time because of a previous conversation about not feeling
intimate with a guy unless she could trust him, and know that he'd go
to bat for her, and pamper her like a true lady, and not be so damn
selfishly interested in just his needs, but would provide for the
both of us. For the irony in that so grotesque, read to the end.
I agreed. I was doing this a lot lately, curious to see
what would happen.
Walked in with my
little round slice of bread and said this isn't Italian, see, here
it says French bread. Mnnn!, It's so good! I love crusty bread. Do
you like it too? She did too!
"Can you make me a
sandwich with peanut butter and jelly? And cut it this way,
lengthwise, not across. And warm it up in the Microwave. Thaank you Lelaers!" So I took half of it sliced it lengthwise,
peanut butter, jelly, on a plate in the microwave for 17 seconds.
I
always pick odd numbers in case there are any people with OCD around
that I can freak out. 51 seconds is my favorite.
She loves this. The
sandwich that is. After a while, wants another one. That's the other
half of the loaf. It's a small loaf. And I cut just a little bit off
the fat end with a bit of peanut butter and jelly, eat it and it's so
good. I bring the rest it to her, and she's happy.
Next morning I wake
up very early to the construction down in the street, even the wet
tissue paper jammed in my ears didn't completely drown it out, though
in the haze between the dreams and the lucid it sounded like there
was some background music was going on, and people singing, which I
laughingly told her about.
“what are you
doing”
“I can't sleep
anymore. I got enough last night, it's okay, I'm just nervous”
"Nervous about what?"
I turned on my
laptop and went straight to my bank account. The money was finally there there,
almost $400, a couple days late. This is from the seemingly never ending trades where I'd make a
bit here, a bit there. Often on margin, so if I got $46, from 1000 $
in stock, it was purely $46 traded with someone else's money, $10
trading commission taken out. Doing this over and over, and even
losing some badly had kept a three month total going from $2800, to
$2400, although how much of that was the margin, and how much was
cash I could get out of it was still mostly a mystery to me. And I kept
borrowing from that margin, because there was no actual outstanding
cash balance, selling a hundred, even fifty shares, would add back
into both cash accumulation and margins ability to buy something
else.
Two days ago I
thought I'd put that into my account, but when It didn't show up, I
had panicked. I wasn't able to pay the parking garage fee I'd hidden
the car from the blizzard in, and at $40 a day I was waiting yet
another day.
So now I started
paying bills. I don't have that many, and they are all on-line, the
game was to put $50 there, $30 here, so that at least I was paying
something. The goal was to keep everyone happy until the house sold,
then I'd have enough real money to close all those accounts. I
kept enough aside for the car.
The water company
immediately called me back and verified I'd paid $41. Yes, that was
me. Well, I'm afraid we have a problem. You see your total is XXX and
the past due balance is $150, and I don't know if you realized this,
but the shut off notice is tomorrow. I politely thanked him for
informing me, because I truly hadn't been paying attention “I've
been on vacation this week” I said. I was hoping this would piss
him off. I quickly calculated what I had left. So the $150 minus the
$41 I paid is how much? Okay I have that. And I gave him my visa ATM
card and we were very nice to each other, bidding each other a
wonderful day, bub-bye!
Suzy was in the
bedroom, I was just right outside the bedroom door and the computer
phone was up loud enough for her to hear the conversation. This is
what I'd wanted. I turned around to her gravely, but relieved.
“Did you hear
that? They were about to turn my water off tomorrow! Luckily I had
enough just in time to take care of it. But .. oh wow, I don't have
much left. Enough to pay the garage and a little left over. I quickly
put some extra in Pay-pal, topped off Savings with another $60, so
when I needed it, then it was only a few buttons away.
I had my hat and
coat on, and was scrambling to find my things. “Why are you being
so frazzled” she asked, walking up behind me.
“It's okay
Suzie.... I'm just nervous – I need to get home - soo - much to do! I
have an appointment tomorrow to sell some stuff in the house, and I want to put more things out he'll see, maybe he'll
want them. Say, are you hungry? I can go get us some breakfast!
“Chocolate
Croissants.”
“Where?”
“The bakery down
the street.”
“Which direction?”
“South”
“And what is this
bakery's name?”
“The bakery.”
“No I know it's a
… oh, they call themselves just The Bakery?”
“Yeeeeahhh, you
got it!!”
“I'll get some
coffees too, and maybe a muffin. My treat, Okay?”
Got the car out of
the lot, cost me ONLY $120, was so happy to be driving my car again,
up above the slush and sludge of the streets, went around a few
blocks to where I knew this place must be, and sure enough, it was
called the bakery. I got Bagels, Lox, Green Onions and Cream Cheese,
FOUR chocolate bagels, because she had pointedly asked for two and a
rich looking crumbly muffin for her. I knew the game. We munched,
slurped coffee and afterwards, she pointed to two large bags of
laundry and asked could I take them to the Laundromat. The Chinese
one.
“Right, the one
behind the big black railing, in fact it's CALLED The Chinese
Laundry.”
“Yup, that's the
one!”
“Great I parked
right in front of it, I'll drop these off and be on my way! “
I gave her a
friendly peck on the cheek.
"See you soon, and I
really do apologize for being so sick all over."
“Get well Leland.
It's our pact of health, now get going!!”
I walk down to where
I think he laundry is. And I'm a little bit disturbed. Not only can I
not make out where the laundry is, I can't find my car? I then find the
laundry, go to the door, says it's open but it's locked, and knocking
doesn't bring anyone forth. And I start to panic. I walk to the
end of the street, and back. NO car, and it was just here!!! This
won't be the first time a friend and I have been towed, but Every
Damn Time, it some confusing sign, and lots of money to get it back,
plus a taxi ride there, and any other parking violations they tell
you that you need to pay are way downtown from, meaning a long subway ride, and a little dance around the narrow sidewalks of Wall
street on the third or second floor of this massive and more or less
indistinguishable building down a long hallway, to a window where a
very jaded elderly lady slowly goes through a huge but thorough
process of paperwork after paperwork after paperwork. Luckily if we
don't have some of it, she does, or can get it on the Fax machine,
and after a while that is done, we get an exhonoration slip (my
term), and then have to take the subway ALL the way back mid town to
38th street, walk over 4 block, and try again. And it
usually works. They will even accept the excuse that the rest of your
paperwork, Registration, Insurance is in the dashboard and will send
someone with you to verify it. Yeah, welcome to New York. God forbid
anything is expired or misplaced. You have to fix it because they
cannot. Not saying they should, but leniency is not in their spirit.
They have no spirit .
Yea, I look forward
to this process. I go up the elevator, and open the door, and trying
not to yell:
“Dammit... they
towed my car!!”
“Why?”
“I think I need a
parking permit, All the other cars have all this identical paperwork in their
windows”
“I never heard of that!”
“ummm... oh,
that's right, you don't drive! I remember now. Well you're damn
lucky”
“How are you
getting home?”
“Trains, and walk
as usual. Hey, it's a nice day. Shit shit shit”
“Why do you still
have the laundry bags?”
“The laundromat
says it's open but it's locked and nobody comes to the door. I'm
sorry you'll have to take them sweetie, I have to go, I can't stand
this. I have to do something about my damn CAR! Shit why does this
keep happening! Look, I'll see you, call me later, okay?”
“Sure. Take care.
Good luck with the car”
I take the familiar
path to Penn station remebering how many times I thought to myself
'Good bye buildings, goodbye D'agastino's, Revlon building so
lipstickey, Angelo's Pizza , Doral... last time I come THIS way
again... in a fit of sad dismissal after being kicked out yet again,
or kicking myself out by way of not being able to take the insanity. But I thought 'at least I know where I'm going
and what to do , and have just enough money on my card. The E train
was packed as usual, but some awesomely beautiful young Asians, and
Latina to look at, and so it goes.
Penn station and then the
Transit home. Penn station used to be so confusing and panic ridden
for me, now it's a welcome routine. The train ride is nice but slow,
and I don't care, I just look out the window, at the bleak NJ scenery
in winter , ponds of ice, decrepit buildings that still seem to be
used for something, some that aren't, a huge lot of battered rusted
and broken cars, buses, heavy machinery, this is indeed the vomit pot
of the area.
But for some strange – serene – reason – I've done
this before. It will be okay. I started making my plans.
Once at the end station
I did the unthinkable. I took a cab for the 5 mile ride home that I
usually walk. My feet hurt, I was wearing the wrong kind of
boots for my one day trip last Sunday night. So what the hell. My
house sells in 18 days, this is all just a temporary thing. After
that a new world. Yes, after that, bright for me as the sky is now.
Yes.
At home, I push my
way through the thick snow in my yard that will need to be shoveled
tomorrow. I don't mind it. I see little cat paws all over, and know
who needs to be fed. It's warm and inviting inside, I put my backpack
down and kick off my boots. Inspect the place, re-acquainting myself
with the other less glamorous but just as chaotic spaces. And flop on
the big soft bed with he big quilt that is not charred all over, and
relax.
Not long
afterwards, the computer phone rings. I was trying to surf CNN to get
my mind off everything.
It's Suzan. Hi Suzan
I made it! Its a –
“WHUY DO YOU AWAUS
DO THISSS TO ME UH UH UH UHHHH, WUHYYYYY??”
“What did I do
Suzy?” I use my gentle soft baby talk voice.
“YOU WERE
SUPPPSTO TAKE C A R E OF THINGS!! Uh uh YOU ONLY THINK ABOUT YOURSLEF
DON'T YOUUUUU!!!”
“Hey, Suzy, tell
me – what things did I miss doing? I did as much as I could, I even
got us breakfast, I gave you the French br-”
“YOU WERE SUPOSD TO GIVE ME A HUNDRED DOLLARS!
AND TAKKE THE LAUNDRY!”
“But Suzy, they
were closed, and I really had to go find my car!”
“ I DON”T
CARE ABOUT THE LAUNDRY, I'll DO THAT, WHAT ABOUT THE MONEY!!!”
“I told you, and
you heard, I had to pay because of the shut off notice! It was unexpeced. You wouldn't want to see me with no water, I'd dry up, and to do that over a measly $100 is cruel and unfair to me”
“You
never think of me do you you never think of anybody else...
you..”
“Come on Suzy, I don't think $100 is fair, but look
even so after the house sells, I'll be glad to give that to
you?”
“Then it will be too late! YOU - “
and then she hung
up. I was going to say something else but it would not have mattered.
I could have sung her hush baby don't you cry... in the most sincere
tone, but I knew she'd keep on cursing me, because that's what these
moods do. Oh well, I was used to it. She'll call back soon enough,
but do I ever want to go back there? I dunno, and put up with all of
her self indulgent self inclicted pain and abuse that she blames on me?
She had cried that I'd eaten everything, EVERYTHING.
So then it starts to
add up, and sink.
Here's what really happened.
We used to do crack
together a couple years ago when we lived with each other for 6 months, working on her website in return for me being able to stay there, and I'd be just fine if a little buzzed and even more randy,
while she blubbered or vacuumed like a naked and I have to say oddly
erotic witch which would give me the strangest boner. Crack can do
that to a guy. But I'd be okay. But angry with her. Not this time, I
didn't do crack with her this time.
Follow me here.
The bag of groceries
was $100, yet except for the loaf of bread, she pointed out the
rice... and I 'think' the raisins, but they were always there... I
don't remember anything else that looked different on the shelves.
And she herself was complaining I had eaten everything there was
nothing left for her. Except everything.
A bag empty of
groceries that cost $100.
I knew quite well
that four little baggies of crack cocaine - maybe 5 if priced right at $20
per baggie, cost $100.
She was insistent
from the start that I would owe her $100. And she had but three days
ago done her last hits, then went into her usual coma. In fact she'd
boasted about spending her last $500 on this massive amount but I was
feeling too dizzy and not in the mood to share, so she did ALL of
them.
She had run out, and
knew, after swearing off them like I would swear off alcohol, she
would need her fix after I left.
OR
What if she had got
5 of them on 'credit', knowing the rest of the money would come from me, somehow.
“You don't know
what I've just done.” “What?” “You don't want to know”
That was it. Instead
of saving five bags out, and saying "he didn't show up" or "he didn't
have it, here's your merch back". She blindly kept doing it and
doing it until it was all gone, which is what we'd always do.
Back then she would run out in her coat and underpants to the bank across the
street to get out another hundred dollars. Or she'd try to get me to
do it.
One night I simply
refused.
You don't understand
Leeelers, they are Columbian!! If you say you're gonna buy and they
come all the way out and you say sorry, no money... leeland you don't
know what they can do!! GO GET THE MONEY!!! I don't want to be in
trouble!!
I figured this was
just histrionics, why couldn't she go again, why me?
What was happening is she was grooming me for her druglord as a new addict, and with the extra money he would make on me, she could get a discount. It was important that I show that I want to give them money and go to the bank for them, because they would show up minutes after I got back. Suzy and Serge would often go out in the hall and whisper, and I wondered what they were talking about. That must have been IT!
But this time,
because I was just there paying bills instead of smoking it with her earlier, and she had been hinting all along
I 'owed' her $100 that I would give it to her when she begged. she kept making up more and more absurd reasons why I owed it to her.
I ran out so fast, and she was full of chocolate croissant
and eye boogers, she forgot to keep making that point and let me get
away.
Then she realized
what * she * had done.
Epilogue:
I kept a record of food I was eating. Here it is.
1 Bowl Cereal (Rice Krispies, and Cheerios mix, with milk. Couldn't find the Corn Flakes anywhere.
1 SLICE of that french bread - and that little end piece. She ate the rest.
2 glasses of Orange Juice.
1 cup rice with a hot dog (below), smart balance and some spices.
1 hot dog.
(that was one dinner, lasted two days)
1 cup Orzo, with Olive Oil and Butter (and some spices)
1 package creamed spinach with
1 small can creamed corn mixed in
1/2 bag of Salad (ready to go bad)
2 Chicken tenders that she told me were in the freezer.
For two days I did not eat, just drank water, and she gave me that DEELICIOUS Vitamin C mix with the Raspberry Crystal lite.
Also had a couple cups of Chamomile Tea and one Eccanacia.
So
when she said I ate everything, and that I eat SO much... Really Susan.
This time I remembered and honestly a little bit offended that she would
make that statement.
This is a rather good diet meal plan, given the time frame.
And honestly, I'm rather proud of it!
I should do this more often
