Hick's Harem Wrap-Ups

Hick went back to the senior apartments on Monday. No lunch that day, as it was MLK day and they weren't open. The heat-seeking elderly was home. Hick investigated, and found that her heat was indeed not working! 

"Didn't that make you feel bad? That you didn't believe her?"

"Yeah, a little. But she was fine."

"Did you tell her you came by on Saturday, but she wasn't home?"

"No. But her living room and kitchen heat was working. It was the bathroom and bedroom that didn't. The heater had shorted out. I guess it was when she turned up the one in the bathroom. It's baseboard heat. It might have just been a fuse, but I didn't have time to check that, because I got a call about the guy coming for our own heat pump, and had to leave. 

Anyway, I just disconnected her bathroom unit, and I'll get her a new one. The bedroom will work now that the bathroom is off. So she has heat. She won't freeze.

While I was there, some of the others came to talk to me. Dog Lady saw me first, and said, 'Oh, no. Am I in trouble?' I told her no, I was there for something else. She said everything is fine now with her and Imbiber. They squashed their problem. The police came when she called them. He looked at Imbiber, who's real little and spindly, with a walker. And he looked at Dog Lady, who's bigger and kind of stout. Like, 'Why are YOU scared of HER?' He talked to them both, and made them apologize, and that's it. I told her it's just like I always tell everybody there: you have to learn to get along, or find somewhere else to live. She agreed.

Another old lady was there, too. She's really sweet. She said, 'Oh, there you are. You haven't been here in a week! I was worried about you. I'm so glad you're okay.' And she hugged me as I was leaving. Then on the way home, she called me. She said, 'I'm so sorry for hugging you. I know I shouldn't have done that, but I was just so happy to see that you were okay.' I told her it's fine. She can hug me if she wants to. I'm not mad."

Darn that Hick and his elderlies! They shouldn't make me tear up like this...