Anybody you can see and talk to is alive by my book.
[He leans one elbow on his knee as he gets into the story.]
No fuckin' idea, but she cared enough to come by in person. Little old lady. She said they'd been after her for years, and all her wrinkles came from laser radiation. Said she used to be an "apple-cheeked German girl." Now, my way of thinking is if these guys have been trying to kill her with lasers for years and only made her older, they're not real good at it, but who am I to tell them how to do their job?
Christ, she wouldn't leave us alone. She kept demanding something she called an "air shield." The weirdest part was, she said she'd gotten it from us before. It started to come together when she told us she'd always talked to the same guy. He'd retired not long ago. So we called him up, and it turned out what he'd been doing was, when she called to freak out about crazy bullshit, what he did was he made some beep-boop-beep noises and he said, "There you go, ma'am, got your air shield all set up."
Oh, but so then she still won't leave us alone, so some other guy gets a bright idea. He says lady, you say you're hanging around Chestnut Hill? That's an affluent area. Around there, these rich guys, they got their own municipal air shield already.
She looks him in the eye and she says, "Mister, that's the craziest thing I ever heard."
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[He leans one elbow on his knee as he gets into the story.]
No fuckin' idea, but she cared enough to come by in person. Little old lady. She said they'd been after her for years, and all her wrinkles came from laser radiation. Said she used to be an "apple-cheeked German girl." Now, my way of thinking is if these guys have been trying to kill her with lasers for years and only made her older, they're not real good at it, but who am I to tell them how to do their job?
Christ, she wouldn't leave us alone. She kept demanding something she called an "air shield." The weirdest part was, she said she'd gotten it from us before. It started to come together when she told us she'd always talked to the same guy. He'd retired not long ago. So we called him up, and it turned out what he'd been doing was, when she called to freak out about crazy bullshit, what he did was he made some beep-boop-beep noises and he said, "There you go, ma'am, got your air shield all set up."
Oh, but so then she still won't leave us alone, so some other guy gets a bright idea. He says lady, you say you're hanging around Chestnut Hill? That's an affluent area. Around there, these rich guys, they got their own municipal air shield already.
She looks him in the eye and she says, "Mister, that's the craziest thing I ever heard."