welfareloser
02-11-2002, 07:35 AM
so i have this neighbor who lives alone, she's maybe 55, has an adorable dog who loves my kid, i run into her periodically and she seems like a really interesting lady, someone i might like to be friends with... so i run into her a couple of weeks ago, and she invites me and the gremlin over for dinner. so we make plans for dinner, i bring a salad, i figger we'll have a pretty good time...
so i show up at 5:30 pm with salad and gremlin in tow. a guy with a thick french accent answers the door. i don't know him, but it's the right place, he's holding the dog back, and he says my neighbor is in the shower. so i come inside, and just then the lady comes down the stairs... bouncing heavily from wall to bannister. she's falling down skunked. awwwwww, hay-ell.
so she introduces me to claude. three times. askes me if i'm going to school next year, and what my major will be FIVE TIMES. falling all over the place. slurring her words. dropping things. and this guy claude, who i guess is her boyfriend or something, is running around behind her keeping her upright, cleaning up after her spills; the classic submissive partner in an alcoholic relationship. so we eat, and she says she'll eat later, which seemed to piss claude off, they have a very surreal argument and he disappears upstairs. to top it all off, she chain smoked and i still have a nasty cough that wasn't getting any better.
so. thankfully, nothing bad happened, but i was so on edge. conversation was impossible because her short-term memory was shot. she started playing with her dog getting it all wound up and i was scared it'd get pissed and start biting ppl. she picked up my kid a couple of times and i was coiled and ready to jump and catch him if she decided to stumble. so we stayed for about an hour; thankfully i was able to get out of there as soon as evilgremlin started rubbing his eyes and whining. i left my salad bowl behind... i'm actually hoping that she won't remember i was there at all (very likely) and won't know where the heck the bowl came from and won't try to return it. cuz this is someone i need to avoid. especially when she offers to babysit.
it was so sad and disturbing. it made me really grateful that there's nobody like that in my life. made me very happy for the full life that i have!
one of the reasons this caugt me off guard is that the woman is a dean at the community college, so obviously still reasonably functional. and i thought her odd gait when walking the dog was just a touch of arthirtis and bad balance, but apparently not... *shudder*
so i show up at 5:30 pm with salad and gremlin in tow. a guy with a thick french accent answers the door. i don't know him, but it's the right place, he's holding the dog back, and he says my neighbor is in the shower. so i come inside, and just then the lady comes down the stairs... bouncing heavily from wall to bannister. she's falling down skunked. awwwwww, hay-ell.
so she introduces me to claude. three times. askes me if i'm going to school next year, and what my major will be FIVE TIMES. falling all over the place. slurring her words. dropping things. and this guy claude, who i guess is her boyfriend or something, is running around behind her keeping her upright, cleaning up after her spills; the classic submissive partner in an alcoholic relationship. so we eat, and she says she'll eat later, which seemed to piss claude off, they have a very surreal argument and he disappears upstairs. to top it all off, she chain smoked and i still have a nasty cough that wasn't getting any better.
so. thankfully, nothing bad happened, but i was so on edge. conversation was impossible because her short-term memory was shot. she started playing with her dog getting it all wound up and i was scared it'd get pissed and start biting ppl. she picked up my kid a couple of times and i was coiled and ready to jump and catch him if she decided to stumble. so we stayed for about an hour; thankfully i was able to get out of there as soon as evilgremlin started rubbing his eyes and whining. i left my salad bowl behind... i'm actually hoping that she won't remember i was there at all (very likely) and won't know where the heck the bowl came from and won't try to return it. cuz this is someone i need to avoid. especially when she offers to babysit.
it was so sad and disturbing. it made me really grateful that there's nobody like that in my life. made me very happy for the full life that i have!
one of the reasons this caugt me off guard is that the woman is a dean at the community college, so obviously still reasonably functional. and i thought her odd gait when walking the dog was just a touch of arthirtis and bad balance, but apparently not... *shudder*