I said you tell me.
He said basically all June Harrison does is take up space wherever she goes and this was no exception.
I said that Mother used to say the same thing about Charlie whenever he gave her his report card to sign.
Instead of asking me about Mother or Charlie the intruder kept on and said I know for a fact Judy Jakker wanted nothing to do with it. She told me so in that grating accent of hers so out of respect for Judy I'll say she wasn't even there. Betty Lager is an easy cut despite her obvious physical attributes.
This is something Charlie does himself. We will have a conversation and I will try to ask him questions but he never answers. You don't know if it's because Charlie is deaf or an idiot which is why this intruder reminds me so much of Charlie.
I don't think this intruder is Charlie though because I would probably recognize Charlie's voice.
This is when I said who the fuck are these people and finally the intruder said something that made sense.
The intruder said you know damn well who these people are.
I said do I now.
Then he went on and said Frank Pugo shouldn't have been mixed up in this in the first place and his role from what I understand was minimal. William Shedd doesn't need this kind of recognition given his situation. As far as Harriet Dovovich is concerned it's best to leave well enough alone. Donnie Walker wasn't there at all but he's my friend and he'd be excited to know he was included. Dottie Western was there but only for a few minutes. She left her turquoise Indian bracelet so I have to call her. Pugo's mother was there but I don't think she was involved although it wouldn't surprise me.
By this time I think I said to myself this is definitely not Charlie talking. First of all Charlie doesn't know this many people and never would. Also Charlie doesn't talk like this. Charlie needs time to think about what he's saying and he could never say all this without thinking about it for a very long time.
Then I decided it was the security guard from the private school that chased Charlie and me away all the time.
So the security guard said I'd like to say Bennie Mangine was there and responsible for the whole thing but I'd be lying. Considering what Jenn Untermeyer did for me the night of Bill Shedd's going away party there's no way I can put her in the middle of this. Along those same lines Grace Heaney gets a pass too. Of course Sam Marichino was in it up to his ears but given his condition.
This is when I said I have to go now they have to give me my pills.
Then the security guard said it's almost finished and then we can both hang up on each other.
He went on to say Fran Pollo was acting awfully strange so maybe she'll stay in I'm not sure. She did let me feel her up when we were sixteen so I'm sure I owe her something. Denise Livingston never seemed quite right to me. Her eyes are too far apart from each other. Sal Gonzalez saved my ass once. We were getting on a train and I was drunk and not paying attention and I stepped into the gap and Sal grabbed my arm and kept me from breaking my ass. So regardless of the possibility that Sal may have been responsible I could never name him.
I said how could you again so he would feel like this was an actual conversation and I was playing the part of somebody he was talking to.
Then he said at any rate those are the people I'm cutting. I'm not sure if it'll make a difference. By the time the cops got there it was out of our hands. I'm not sure who called them. The one with the mustache said what's the problem here and I said there's no problem. Then he said well someone has a problem and then the other one said does it have something to do with and I said yes officer it does.
This is when we hung up on each other.
After he said yes officer it does I said can we hang up on each other now and he said yes.
I don't know what this intruder meant by cutting the people and I don't know why he told me all this in the first place.
Should the phone ring I will say who are you cutting and what does it have to do with me.
Charlie would get himself cut all the time because he was a boxer so this is why I thought this was Charlie and something happened to his voice.
The one cut that gave Charlie the most trouble was over his left eye. All another boxer had to do was look at that place over his eye and Charlie would start bleeding.
It was embarrassing to me as both his trainer and brother.
We didn't have a cut man so that was my job too along with everything else.
I would hold a gauze pad to the cut and tell him to stop bleeding already. We would talk strategy as I would hold the gauze pad over his eye and Charlie was usually gasping for air because he was never in good shape despite all that training we did. Maybe the other boxer had a vicious overhand right and I would tell Charlie he had to look out for it. I'd tell him to stay out of the corners and keep to the middle of the ring. I'd tell him if he made it out of the next round alive it would be a miracle.
Then I would smear Vaseline on the cut because that's what professional cut men do.
Then I would tell Charlie to go out there and keep his left up.
Should the phone ring I will say to the caller are you wearing a uniform. I will ask them if they sweat too much in their uniform and if they sweat too much do they chafe too.
If the answer is words then fine I know words and can talk words but if the answer is the caller hanging up then don't bother calling me again.
Why I sweat too much is they don't have air conditioning in here. I ask the doctors who bring me my powder and uniforms about the air conditioning and they say I shouldn't worry about things like that.
I tell them one less thing right.
Then I tell them this is cruel and unusual. I tell them this is what they do to prisoners of war. I tell them they wouldn't have to bother installing the air conditioner because I could take care of it myself. I tell them I was very handy around the house which is a lie but what do they know about it. I tell them Mother made me go out and get a job installing air conditioners because she was unemployed half the time. I tell them all they have to do is buy one for Christ's sake and bring it in here.
Sometimes Charlie and I would pretend to be a military policeman and a foreign prisoner of war. What would happen is I'd be the MP and Charlie would be a foreign agent trying to spy on Alaska. So I'd catch him and throw him up against a wall and frisk him and tell him he had the right to remain silent and that anything he said could be used against him in a court of law with a trial by hung jury. Then after frisking him I'd put the handcuffs on and take him to the cooler which was Mother's bedroom in this particular case.
We made the handcuffs from two of Mother's bracelets but she never found out about it so that too was one less thing.
Should the phone ring Mother would be embarrassed by how I conducted myself over the phone.
What would happen is the phone would ring and back then I didn't say the hello how are you at all. What I said was hello and after the caller said hello back I'd say what do you want.
When Mother heard me say this she said what the fuck is wrong with you. She said you don't speak on the phone that way.
I said I think I do and she said you say the hello how are you who may I ask is calling can I take a message please.
Mother said who taught you to be rude like this over the phone.
I said no one did Mother.
She said are you rude like this in school.
I said I don't think so.
She said from now on you are polite to anyone who calls here on the phone or anyone who speaks to you at all and don't ever let me find out otherwise.