This kid shows up on my doorstep the other day, fingertipping the doorbell pathologically like he’s just discovered the clitoris or something. & what the clitoris is is… Well, we’ll go into that later, maybe. I tend to go off track & we’re pressed for time. Go ask your mum about it.
But this kid on my doorstep… Yeah.
He looks like a good kid: white teeth, shined shoes, cuff links, no visible tattoos, the whole nine yards. Daddy would approve, you know? & sure it’s like 8:30 on a Sunday morning, but this is 1 wholesome, all-American kid, I'm telling ya, & I’m the 1 who stays out too late on Saturday nights.
Unless… Maybe the kid is another one of those crackheads I keep hearing about. Could be he hasn’t even been to bed yet!
But then again, I keep seeing those shoes. Those shoes have not been out all night, no ways.
So I look @ him expectantly, waiting for whatever happens next. Surprise me, baby.
//Good morning!\\ he inaccurately snorts, just alluva sudden. & I gotta tell you, he’s really not off to a winning start. & //have you heard about Jesus Christ?\\
Have I what?
//Jesus Christ, you say?\\ I say, //No, what is that? Never heard of that. Must be new, or else someone’s keeping a tight lid on it. Low profile kinda thing.\\
I look around all conspirator-like & I say, //Thanks for the heads up. Don’t worry: I’ll keep my eyes peeled, & I’ll make a full report if I hear anything.\\
Then I close the door & go back to bed.
Just another ranting crackhead waking me up on a Sunday morning? Or is it something more?
There's just no way to know for certain. So if you hear any more about this whole //Jesus Christ\\ thingamabob, you should probably contact the Sunday doorbell kid right away. It might allow him to sleep in for a change.
But this kid on my doorstep… Yeah.
He looks like a good kid: white teeth, shined shoes, cuff links, no visible tattoos, the whole nine yards. Daddy would approve, you know? & sure it’s like 8:30 on a Sunday morning, but this is 1 wholesome, all-American kid, I'm telling ya, & I’m the 1 who stays out too late on Saturday nights.
Unless… Maybe the kid is another one of those crackheads I keep hearing about. Could be he hasn’t even been to bed yet!
But then again, I keep seeing those shoes. Those shoes have not been out all night, no ways.
So I look @ him expectantly, waiting for whatever happens next. Surprise me, baby.
//Good morning!\\ he inaccurately snorts, just alluva sudden. & I gotta tell you, he’s really not off to a winning start. & //have you heard about Jesus Christ?\\
Have I what?
//Jesus Christ, you say?\\ I say, //No, what is that? Never heard of that. Must be new, or else someone’s keeping a tight lid on it. Low profile kinda thing.\\
I look around all conspirator-like & I say, //Thanks for the heads up. Don’t worry: I’ll keep my eyes peeled, & I’ll make a full report if I hear anything.\\
Then I close the door & go back to bed.
Just another ranting crackhead waking me up on a Sunday morning? Or is it something more?
There's just no way to know for certain. So if you hear any more about this whole //Jesus Christ\\ thingamabob, you should probably contact the Sunday doorbell kid right away. It might allow him to sleep in for a change.
(Psst! I know Jesus!)
ReplyDeleteHe's a great guy. Mows my lawn in the summertime; I pay him well for it, and the other multitalented things he does around the place. We've had great times, actually; laying concrete; building a pond; landscaping the place - he's in that shadowland of not-quite-friend but great-guy; I'd like to think he'd do all this for free, but I know different.
His wife, Maria, makes awesome salsa. I've paid her to clean the house on occasion; she's good at it, too.
Took me a while to train 'em both not to call me 'Senor', but to use my first name.
Yep. It's fair to say that I Know Jesus.
¡ Jesus es el hombre !
ReplyDeletelol... A kick *ss door answering move if I do say so myself.
ReplyDeleteI do what I can for people like that, & if it's a report he wants, then it's a report he will get!
ReplyDeleteOMG that's one helluva sexy X rated doorbell button fingertippy the whatsit going on there, even and especially for an early Sunday morning. Holy hotness, I'll never be able to look at a doorbell button the same again.
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