"stray"

Random Inner Monologue from Character Who is Not Important at This Time:

I brought the old man home with me because we were both doing laundry at Smiley's Coin Operated Wash-n-Go Laundromat Christmas Day and the poor guy had just lost seventy-five cents in the pop machine and I'd just accidentally shrunk two pairs of pants and screw this it was Christmas and you just shouldn't be alone.

I guess it was kind of dangerous in a way; you shouldn't invite strange men over to your house because after all they could rape you or kill you or worse. I once heard of a lady bringing a guy home from Walgreens and he committed suicide in the bathtub. All she wanted was a little company, and she ended up having to throw out all her towels.

Anyway, I took the old guy home with me. We ate cranberry sauce and peanut brittle and left-over Chinese. Then we watched some Bonanza and I guess I fell asleep because then later I woke up and he was gone.

He took all my silverware and the last of the cranberry sauce with him. I wasn't all that upset. I just wondered where he went and if he was coming back.