Sunday, March 1, 2009
Charles Pretends to Be Stuck on the Roof
Yesterday I passed by my apartment while driving some people around for work and discovered Charles on the neighbor's roof, doing what can only be called caterwauling. It was a cold day and he looked absolutely forlorn and desperate, making those horrible extended cat-panic sounds. Me and three or four neighbors, even one I didn't know, a transsexual named Bruce, who hilariously knew Charles by his first name and seemed to be on intimate terms with him, we all stood around calling up to him. "Charles!" "Charlie!" "Charlie-cat, jump!" "Jump!" I stood underneath him with my arms up-stretched, hoping this wouldn't turn into a cat crisis. After about five minutes of this, I guess Charles had his fill of drama for the day, because he turned around, walked to the back of the house, jumped onto a shed, and jumped down. Disgusted, I let him into the apartment and gave him a delicious can of beef.
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Hahahahahahaha ----- Oh my, I had some catching up to do. I hadn't read any of these latest posting. --- This episode with the roof though is perhaps my favorite. It doesn't I'm afraid surprise me in the least, as Charles is certainly capable of such deception, and possible even a certain leave of self description. I am though, despite all this, deeply touched that the neighbors all rallied to his aid like this. And that they knew him, as you mentioned, on a first name basis. Perhaps in a way, even though we are all he's mere pawns, he does bring something to each of our lives.
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