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"People are such assholes."
The scene: a little 65-year-old woman is sitting in bed rolling her hair in curlers, saying this, and the reason she's so disgusted with the state of humanity is because she has just acquired a new cat.
The reason she has acquired a new cat is because some neighbors of the developmentally-disabled kid I work with on weekends have moved off and abandoned it. On the night before the kid and I went on a quest to catch the cat, the temperature hit 18F, as it had for several nights running over the course of the two weeks the cat had been subsisting on its own in the kid's neighborhood.
The reason the neighbors abandoned the cat is because they have a very young daughter, about second-grade age, around whom all the neighborhood perverts were sniffing. One of the perverts, in fact, was showing porn on his computer to the little girl, to the kid I watch (not on a day when I was with him, of course), and to another developmentally-disabled adult who lives on the same street. After this little incident, that developmentally-disabled young man started telling the little girl he was having dreams about her.
Hence, the neighbors packed up and left, and left their cat behind, and hence my mother got a new cat, and also got her dwindling faith in humanity kicked down yet another notch.
And hence, the quote of the day.
The scene: a little 65-year-old woman is sitting in bed rolling her hair in curlers, saying this, and the reason she's so disgusted with the state of humanity is because she has just acquired a new cat.
The reason she has acquired a new cat is because some neighbors of the developmentally-disabled kid I work with on weekends have moved off and abandoned it. On the night before the kid and I went on a quest to catch the cat, the temperature hit 18F, as it had for several nights running over the course of the two weeks the cat had been subsisting on its own in the kid's neighborhood.
The reason the neighbors abandoned the cat is because they have a very young daughter, about second-grade age, around whom all the neighborhood perverts were sniffing. One of the perverts, in fact, was showing porn on his computer to the little girl, to the kid I watch (not on a day when I was with him, of course), and to another developmentally-disabled adult who lives on the same street. After this little incident, that developmentally-disabled young man started telling the little girl he was having dreams about her.
Hence, the neighbors packed up and left, and left their cat behind, and hence my mother got a new cat, and also got her dwindling faith in humanity kicked down yet another notch.
And hence, the quote of the day.
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