so, my neighbor comes home from a trip to Charlotte and her electricity is out. *bummer*
she runs for shelter to my pad, of course and calls Progress Energy to get to the bottom of this outage.
because she couldn't abstain from cussing out the answerer on the other end....things didn't progress with Progress as she would have liked.
having called the patient but powerless woman on the end of the phone a CUNT, chances of her getting electricity before the end of next week were small, infintesimal to say the least.
a twist in our saga happens only 30 minutes from her agitated phone call when a power fixing dude shows up in a white truck. i am looking out the window and thank the universe and all it's minions that i cannot hear the convo that is surely happening right outside the door.
turns out the silly biotch (or however the fuck it is spelled...)
was sitting moping in her bedroom, by candlelight, drinking a wine cooler and ALL OF A SUDDEN her lights come on. She calls me right away...I am like, "Yeah...I know...Congratulations!"
then, the audacity of some folk...she had asked me to pick up her dogs from the kennel and i had agreed to for a fee."$25.oo will get 'em picked up", I say. heeheee, ha ha...funny chuckles..and she looks all cross-eyed and shit. "No...really", I say..."I will do it for $25.00"
Well....that must have been the most insane statement the girl had heard all year, because she guffawed. "OK...I will do it for $15.00". she still acted like i was trying to rob her. uggggg....the gas, the time and the spazzed out dealings with spazzed out dogs, ya damn straight $15.00 was worth it.
anyways....when the electricity came back on, she CAME over and
i fed her some eggplant patties i had made. ( we feed her often) she was like, "which eggplant did you use?" i told her one of them was hers and she about had a cow. (by the way, i waters the gardens) she was like..."i had plans for THAT eggplant."
such is the life of having a neighbor who just so happens to be a friend from high school who i haven't seen in 27 years. Hmmmm....imagine that karma.
when she was moving in, she came by to bring some things that she could carry in her car. we had 2 twenty minute convos before it hit me. last time we talked it was a sunday. tuesday night i was "thinking" as i often do before sleep and i said to self, "i think that is my old pal Stacie"...but that is too surreal, after all these years for this person to present in my life again....hmmmm??
well.....back to now....the bitch is getting on my nerves. there are times when i like hanging out with her, but mostly she drains me dry.
the end.