Left the House, Bothered Ghosts
I went out by myself today. Bank and post office and drugstore. Not very challenging destinations, but this was the first time I'd left the house alone in ... mmm ... at least 10 days. And it went OK. I didn't have any wrecks, and I'm pretty sure I only said one semi-nonsensical thing to the bank clerk. (That's part of what scares me about going out. Sometimes my talker breaks and I have no idea what's going to come out of my mouth, and I end up trying to say something innocuous to somebody, but God knows what I really said, and they give me that are-you-from-Mars look and start edging away.)
The drugstore I went to was the one in our old neighborhood, the Walgreens at Napoleon and Claiborne. I was waiting in a long, boring line and decided to turn on my iPhone Ghost Radar app just for the hell of it. As it came up on the screen, I thought, "Christ, it's a drugstore, this is stupid," but then I remembered how near I was to the former Memorial Hospital, scene of horror, suffering, death, heartbreaking decisions, accusations of murder, terrible feelings, career-ruining controversies and more during the post-Katrina failure of the federal levee system, when the hospital was completely surrounded by water and only accessible by boat or helicopter. So I left the Ghost Radar on. And it immediately said "danger." And then it said "island." And then I freaked out and turned it off and felt sorry for bothering those poor souls, if I did.
The drugstore I went to was the one in our old neighborhood, the Walgreens at Napoleon and Claiborne. I was waiting in a long, boring line and decided to turn on my iPhone Ghost Radar app just for the hell of it. As it came up on the screen, I thought, "Christ, it's a drugstore, this is stupid," but then I remembered how near I was to the former Memorial Hospital, scene of horror, suffering, death, heartbreaking decisions, accusations of murder, terrible feelings, career-ruining controversies and more during the post-Katrina failure of the federal levee system, when the hospital was completely surrounded by water and only accessible by boat or helicopter. So I left the Ghost Radar on. And it immediately said "danger." And then it said "island." And then I freaked out and turned it off and felt sorry for bothering those poor souls, if I did.