The ride home from Springs Grove was the most uncomfortable I’d ever been in my life. I was trying to digest what Dagmar had said to me, and from the look on Tim’s face, she’d said something similar to him as well. I don’t think he could have gripped the steering wheel any harder. I [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Murder in Baltimore Part 5
Posted in Uncategorized on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Murder in Baltimore Part 4
Posted in Uncategorized on November 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A week after Dagmar’s suicide attempt, and with her safely secured in a Catonsville fruit farm, I got a phone call from her brother.
Tim said that he was coming into town from California, and asked me to pick him up from the train station. I have no idea why he was coming in by Amtrack [...]
Murder in Baltimore Part 3
Posted in Uncategorized on November 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Unbeknownst to me at the time, Dagmar had called her brother in California on Thursday morning and left a voice message that she was going to kill herself.
Her brother didn’t get that message until 9 p.m. The time difference meant that he got that message about the same time I was leaving her house after locking [...]
Murder in Baltimore Part 2
Posted in Uncategorized on November 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The next day, as I was taking my nap, Dagmar showed up again and woke me.
“The cops came and talked to me.” She was wringing her hands. “I think they think I had something to do with it.”
I laughed and half shouted, “THAT’S PREPOSTEROUS!” (I really didn’t say that. Who the hell says that? But [...]
I have five dogs
Posted in Uncategorized on November 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I have 4.25 weiner dogs and .75 jack russell dogs. In reality I have three full-blooded dachshunds, one half-weiner-&-half-jack-russell dog and one three-quarter-weiner-&-one-quarter-jack-russell dog.
It’s illegal to have that many dogs. I worry all the time that the animal control guy is going to come and take my dogs away. Then I realize that the [...]
Overheard comments …
Posted in Uncategorized on November 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A woman said into her cell phone as she walked past the ice cream section:”You are going to divorce me over a bottle of tequila?”
Exchange between a man and the photo clerk:
“Would you be the person to develop dirty pictures?”
“If you mean your playing in the mud, then yes.”
I was at the grocery store today …
Posted in Uncategorized on November 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
and as the guy was bagging my groceries, he made an unsolicted observation.
“You must have been hungry. You got a lot of snacks here,” he said, like he was too cool for school.
Hmph.
“No, we’re just bad eaters,” I responded, as if to say shut up and stop looking at my f’ing food.
A short time later, the [...]
I never talk to strangers
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged courthouse, fog, strangers on November 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I never talk to strangers because it’s uncomfortable.
But on Thursday, when the town was socked in by a fog like I’d never seen here before, I found myself standing outside smoking one last cigarette before going into the courthouse for arraignments.
Some 19-year-old kid in a beany cap was standing out there too, puffing on [...]
This weekend I’m getting …
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , breakfast, pigs, weekend on November 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
a pet pig. I want a potbelly pig, but Lance wants a big ol’ regular pig.
My friend said I’m dumb for getting a pig. So I have one less friend.
I want to name my pig breakfast or link or scrapple.Victoria said I should name it Rhonda. That’s hysterical! Frankie, the less original of the crew, [...]
