Monday, May 17, 2004
toodle-oo! good morning!
oh, good morning.
how are you? now you'll have to catch me up on just everything i missed.
oh, were you-- oh. yes. sure. umm.
i'm sure you heard, after all.
oh. yes. well, heard, which?
well, you know i was the one who discovered it.
oh. discovered...?
of course you know, the suspicious white powder in the bathroom. i've been under observation ever since.
observation? in the hospital?
well, home observation. they said if it was anthrax it would develop within three days. but the stress of waiting to get anthrax, well, i needed to be under home self observation just for the stress for a week after that.
oh, i see. what was it like, the powder you found?
well, i hate to even talk about it, it was such a fright.
oh, sorry. you don't have to--
but what happened is, remember how the lights were out in the bathroom?
sure.
i was in there, you know, doing my business, when they flickered back on. and i thought, oh, this is better, but then i looked down at the toilet paper dispenser, and you know how it has that little sort of shiny stainless steel shelf on top of it?
mm hmm.
it was there! and it didn't look like someone had just spilled baby powder, it looked like it had been placed there deliberately!
deliberately?
absolutely. almost like little straight patterns.
hm.
so i got out of there. because you can't take chances these days when it comes to bioterror. you just can't. especially at my age. they said it tested negative, but the truth is, do you really think they'd tell us if it was anthrax? think about the panic that would cause. so they keep these things hushed up and tell us the results were "inconclusive." but really, if you think about it, what else could it be, you know?
sure. well, i'm sure everyone will be more careful now.
oh, i know i will, i am. you have to. you can't be too. too careful, i mean. i mean, strange powder doesn't just appear in a bathroom for no reason.
oh, good morning.
how are you? now you'll have to catch me up on just everything i missed.
oh, were you-- oh. yes. sure. umm.
i'm sure you heard, after all.
oh. yes. well, heard, which?
well, you know i was the one who discovered it.
oh. discovered...?
of course you know, the suspicious white powder in the bathroom. i've been under observation ever since.
observation? in the hospital?
well, home observation. they said if it was anthrax it would develop within three days. but the stress of waiting to get anthrax, well, i needed to be under home self observation just for the stress for a week after that.
oh, i see. what was it like, the powder you found?
well, i hate to even talk about it, it was such a fright.
oh, sorry. you don't have to--
but what happened is, remember how the lights were out in the bathroom?
sure.
i was in there, you know, doing my business, when they flickered back on. and i thought, oh, this is better, but then i looked down at the toilet paper dispenser, and you know how it has that little sort of shiny stainless steel shelf on top of it?
mm hmm.
it was there! and it didn't look like someone had just spilled baby powder, it looked like it had been placed there deliberately!
deliberately?
absolutely. almost like little straight patterns.
hm.
so i got out of there. because you can't take chances these days when it comes to bioterror. you just can't. especially at my age. they said it tested negative, but the truth is, do you really think they'd tell us if it was anthrax? think about the panic that would cause. so they keep these things hushed up and tell us the results were "inconclusive." but really, if you think about it, what else could it be, you know?
sure. well, i'm sure everyone will be more careful now.
oh, i know i will, i am. you have to. you can't be too. too careful, i mean. i mean, strange powder doesn't just appear in a bathroom for no reason.
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