Out to Lunch

It’s a lovely day, after we clean the house - you don’t think Sam is going to let me get out of that, do you? Visiting friends or not, Sunday morning is cleaning day - we go and visit friends, Charlie and Lenny.

Charlie cooks us Soto for lunch during which he updates us on the latest gossip about Sam's other friends Brian & Mark who are renting Sam’s house.

Apparently, as Sam has long suspected, Brian and Mark are in the grip of drug addiction - we once went over there unannounced and Sam knocked and when there was no immediate answer, Sam looked though the window and thought he could see a glass pipe on the table but when Mark eventually answered the door the glass pipe wasn't on the table any longer. Brian and Mark have both lost their jobs in the last few years and recently have struggled to pay Sam the rent for his house.

Charlie and Lenny thought it was in Sam's best interests to know what another friend, Pompi, had told them, that Brian & Mark are using ice. And while Sam has suspected for some time, this was the first time it had been confirmed.

Apparently, all their friends are now taking about it.

Brian and Mark have applied for public housing, which I told Charlie and Lenny immediately wondering if I’d said too much.

Then afterwards the four of us who are doing well in life took our gorgeous dogs for a walk along the parkland along the creek in the sun on a perfect day in perfect surroundings, having fully exorcised the worries of friends who have failed and lost everything... but what can you do, really, I ask you? Hope they'll find a job? Hopw it won’t happen to you? What else can you do? Thank the universe that there you are by the grace of our very existence not having succumbed to the downfalls in life.

It is really sad, Brian and Mark have nothing, and what they did own, two cars, I think both have been sold. Mark has tried to get a disability pension because of a back injury, but that was denied more recently. I hoped he'd get it, you know, in this day and age when corporations don't pay any tax, I reckon, Mark could be paid a disability pension, but no.

After that, Sam and I went grocery shopping with Bruno, Sam shopped, Bruno and I sat on the cool tiles outside and waited for him. People love Bruno and many of them want to pat him and even the ones that don't pat him, he makes smile. 

After that we headed home.

The sun shone, it was a gorgeous day.

The only downside is that it is Monday tomorrow. Boohoo.