I just wanted to thank a certain little spider for making my time with these friends a most educational and enjoyable one.
One of my friends, whom we will call Raul, talks with God. I mean 24/7 verbal prayers, no scratch that, they are verbal arguments with the man upstairs.
Apparently their story goes back quite a ways. From what I could discern it would appear that Raul was the desperate loser in some cosmic chess match with God and he has not gotten over that ill fated game.
Out of spite the winner forced the loser to participate in the creation of the world. As such, Raul is responsible for all of the evil, sadness, and misery leveled upon humanity. He is so sorry and so angry at God for tricking and using him. I witnessed his endless cursing and blessing of God for two long days, and while I found it facinating, I also found in disturbing.
Therefore you can imagine my joy when yesterday I was met at the door by Raul who was holding an imaginary leash. I and "Luke" his pet spider, were immedietly taken on a tour of the joint. We learned all of Raul's favorite haunts such as, the opening to the "dungeon" where the creation took place, where he prefers to sit and eat lunch, his suite, and of course the medication counter where he works dispensing medications to the patients there (Raul isn't a patient at the USH, he is a doctor who lives with his patients, he finds it is more therapeutic for them if he is always on site).
By the time I left for the day, I must say I was amazed at Luke's stamina. He went many places that no one or no thing should ever be forced to go. And he did so quite cheerfully as he was always willing to go on to the next stop of his own little tour of hell. I petered out after the third or fourth stop and just contented myself with observing the goings on.
But here is the amazing thing: By the end of the day I caught Raul smiling as he would talk to, hold, and pet Luke!
So,
P.S. some of this tale is true, some of it isn't. But since when is reality or truth really that important?
3 comments:
True, or not - always good for a laugh. I think I met Luke the other day here on my floor...hmm...
No more going back to that place!!! The more you go the closer you get to becoming like the patients, or even worse.... the staff!
Raul was awesome! I sure will never forget him, I don't think I would be able to even if I wanted to. It was great to share the CRAZINESS with you.
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