Cell Phone
"Hey, how are you?" she squeaked.
Not sure I wanted to hear her cellphone conversation three houses away, but I knew from years as a jazz musician dope & beer do that to people, especially women whose serotonin production rises when they talk to anyone, but more particularly women.
The squeaky high-pitched voice with constant OMG's made me think she was also doing helium. A type of rapture of-the-deep on terra firma common to the verbally and medically challenged.
After hearing about Jack, the subject changed to Patricia and her love-child son, followed by a slight at the local grocery store. Which led to the deplorable taste Amanda showed choosing her bridesmaid's gowns.
I left that acoustic zone and poured a brain deadening amount of what Hemingway called "The best procurable Scotch." I retired to my battered Olivetti portable mechanical typer.
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Author's Note
Annoyances of life.
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I wanted to hear more, believe it or not.
Another nerve jangling episode of Pepper Young's Family, brought to you by DUZ, D-U-Z the laundry soap that does everything! *
Yes to this piece. I like the meta ending.*
Cell phones have a habit of bringing out the unspeakable part of people.*
I like the ending as well. It makes a real beginning of an ending. I ended up liking the rest of it and thinking. A lot. About today and neighbors and people in the restaurant and topics of conversation and areas of importance in people's lives. And about serotonin. I ought to know how a reuptake inhibitor actually works, but I forgot. It seems important suddenly to know. At least the woman neighbor knows a woman, I'm going. Like, is the reuptake inhibitor prescribed so her voice won't flow up chimneys and trees and run along sidewalks like a cat? The reuptake inhibitor gave me beaded sweat, not bullet sweat, that is another type. *
Thank you Jerry, Mathew, Amanda, Tim and Ann for your comments. I appreciate them mightily.
Thanks for the report.*
"I left that acoustic zone"
Nice!
Thank you Gary and Bill for your comments and for reading.