4:00am - Dale (a good friend of mine) gets kicked out of Mike’s house (another good friend of mine) for drinking, passing out, and burning Mike’s carpet with a cigarette. Dale had been living there for 5 months, rent-free, with the understanding that he would:
- Not drink
- Not smoke inside
- Get a job
He hadn’t found a job. He hadn’t even really tried. Mike had given him two month’s warning to get a job or get out–last June. Instead, he decided getting liquored up was a better option.
Mike finds him passed out on the floor, cigarette burn on the carpet, vodka spilled on the floor, and gives him the boot.
5:00am - The cops arrive at Mike’s door asking him if he knows Dale. Mike says yes, but that he kicked him out earlier and doesn’t want him back.
It seems that Dale was found, passed out, on someone’s lawn about half a block away. Mike explains the reason for Dale being kicked out. The cops take Dale to Detox.
11:00am - I go over to Mike’s house and find out about numbers 1 and 2. The mail arrives. Mike finds out that the 12 months of chemo he just went through didn’t work; he still has Hep C. Mike is of a genotype that generally has a poor outcome regarding Hep C treatment; he’s already been informed that this was a one-shot deal: Either it clears or it’s not worth wasting the time to try it again.
Noon - A mutual friend of Mike and I comes over and asks us to watch her dog while she and her husband go fishing for a couple of days. Mike has a dog, but he says OK.
Mike’s dog meets the other dog and immediately tries to hump it.
He won’t stop trying to hump it. He constantly tries to hump it.
Both dogs are male. Mike finds out his dog is gay.
1:30pm - I go home and try to take a nap for a while.
Sometime later: I can’t sleep, so I get up, read the SDMB, and post a bit.
6:00pm - I go back over to Mike’s and pick him up. We go to a bar to watch the Vikings’ pre-season game. I ask Mike if he wants to go 50/50 on some pulltabs. He says no. I buy 20 pulltabs. I only find one winner, but it’s worth $250.
7:15pmc or so - The Vikings game starts. The Vikes win the first quarter (which is all that counts since that’s when the starters are in).
8:30pm - We leave the bar and go back to Mike’s house. The police are waiting there. Dale is in the back of the car. Seems he got out of Detox, bought another bottle, drank most of it, and then passed out by Minnehaha Creek. The police responded to numerous calls about a guy laying alongside the walking path.
The cops ask Mike and I if we know Dale. We say yes. They ask if he can come in. Mike says no. Mike says that the cops already took Dale to Detox once that day. The cop says they just keep them there until they sober up and then let them go. Since Mike won’t let him in, the cops take Dale to Detox for the second time that day.
10:15pm - I come home and post about my interesting day.