Hospitals bring back bad memories. And so we went down and rearranged some shelves in the store, which caught Ellen's attention as she was stopping by the bakery for some doughnuts. They'll let cops come in before they open for doughnuts. She was just checking the burglars weren't stocking the store and also wanted to let me know that SWSNBN did get to spend the night in jail, though she'd surely make bail before the morning was out. This was more likely to be considered a domestic dispute. I wondered how that was possible since she doesn't live here. But I guess once you've shacked up with someone, it pretty much stays domestic forever and ever. I told her about Brian and she was kind of upset. I put on a pot of coffee and we had that along with some of the fresh doughnuts she had in hand.
"It was kind of fun to cuff her." Ellen said.
"Had you wanted to do that for a long time?" Maricel asked.
"Yeah." Ellen said.
"She seems kind of mean." Maricel said.
"Oh, she is." Ellen said.
"She wasn't always mean." I said.
"Yes she was." Ellen disagreed. "She just wasn't always mean to you."
Ellen looked through the new comic books and made her selections. She's still got some store credit from helping me out during the comic-con.
The action figure display looked a heck of a lot better when Maricel was finished with it. That probably didn't please Ellen because she's been wanting me to do something with it for months and months.
"Looks nice." Was all Ellen said.
"Maybe I should have listened to you." I said.
"No reason to start now." Was her parting shot. Mind you, this is my friend.
See you in the funny papers...
Simon
