A NIGHT OF SOME DELIGHT

Ady invited a boy out for a date. “Would you care for coffee?” she asked. he said he would, and so they went to a café. There, the boy read a magazine. Ady looked at the paper cups and the ice cream.

When they finished their coffee, Ady said, “Would you like to go out for a glass of wine?” The boy said he would and so they did. Ady ordered a macon, and the so did the boy. Ady realized that this was a good sign. At the wine bar, the boy found a magazine at one of the tables and picked it up. Ady noticed that the boy’s eyes were very good looking, and that he read very fast.

After finishing the wine, Ady was hungry. “Would you like to go maybe somewhere for dinner?” she asked the boy. He didn’t hear her, and so she said, “Would you like to go maybe somewhere for dinner?” Ady liked to eat Chinese food in particular.

One year later, Ady threw a marvelous party. when her guests came to the door, she screamed with joy. Some guests were dressed in costume, some were dressed in formal attire, and it was a delightful party and it lasted so long that the guests, after a while, tended to drift in and out, sometimes going to the nearby convenience store to buy club soda, beverages, candles, chocolate. and wine, champagne, and toothpicks. One guest even bought a tire repair kit.

Late that evening, Ady’s neighbor’s doorbell rang. “What is it?” Ady’s neighbor said, opening the door slightly. It was quite late indeed and her neighbor was not expecting any visitors. Outside, a man walked by with a bottle of club soda. The bottle was made of real glass, not plastic. Another man fell off his bicycle and hurt his knee quite badly; there was a great deal of blood. The man with the bottle of club soda put the bottle down and walked over to help the bloody party guest. Next door, Ady and her friends were about to go out to see a very unusual meteor shower.

“Who is it?” Ady’s neighbor asked. It was the boy. He opened the door. “Oh, you’re ‘the boy,’” Ady’s neighbor said. The boy smiled. “I must have the wrong house.”


all artwork, except likenesses of Lyndon B. Johnson, by Crispy Flotilla ® 2006