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11 March 2013
It was raining this morning until about 9am. At noon I went to the park, not expecting to see any of my friends. Wolf and his dog Shaggy were there along with Little Chester.
Wolf said, “Hello, Dennis, I hope you’re going to help me beat up Jacques today. He really pissed me off. The number of years I’ve been around I don’t need anybody telling me where to sit. I’ve been downtown since six this morning. I was at my spot until nine then came here. I’m soaked, Scruffy is soaked and our caboose is soaked. I got something here, but don’t tell anyone.” He pulled out a bottle of sherry from under Scruffy’s blanket and took a drink. (Scruffy prefers to lay in the mud.) Then he took out a can of Old Milwaukee and poured it in his drinking bottle and down his leg.
“Sit down, Chester. Oh, I forgot, we had this conversation yesterday, you prefer standing.”
“Yeah, I like to stand. I’m short enough anyway. The only way I get to look down on people is if they’re sitting and I’m standing.”
I asked, “So, how’s it going, Chester?”
“About five feet, one and a half inches. Standing on the curb makes me a bit taller.”
“No, I meant how are things going for you?”
“I’m doing okay, I only think about what’s going on right now. I don’t think about the future.”
“That’s a good attitude. We don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. We don’t even know what’s going to happen in the next hour.”
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