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Joseph Belli's avatar

I was thinking “brotherfucker” before I even finished reading the sentence. Not the least surprised that you had it covered!

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Dr Madison Booth's avatar

This completely brightened my day and had me laughing at loud on my gloomy ward call shift at the hospital. Thank you. 🙏🏼

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Cintra Wilson's avatar

Thank you for reading, Dr. Booth! And thank you for being a hospital person.

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Howard Walker's avatar

Geez and I thought I had an interesting life, I may as well have stayed asleep 😍😂😍

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jjdaddyo's avatar

You Park Slope Grande Dames are all the same: red velvet in the living room, licentious punks in the attic.

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Cintra Wilson's avatar

I'm such a cliché.

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Devin Dearing's avatar

The magic of this delirious scene is the VERY relatable and VIVID detail!! Just reading it gave me a hangover. Lol

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Chris Norris's avatar

This just about LOL-ed me:

“...there was a filthy little punk rocker with a mohawk sleeping on my red velvet couch, upright, fully clothed.

“‘Hey!’ I yelled.”

Don’t know if it’s the “Withnail and I” scene itself or the punctuation’s rhythm. “Hey!” -- as if at a dog snatching food off a counter.

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Robert Ferd's avatar

Wow, and I regretted some of those I dated. Thanks.

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David Williams's avatar

Jagged pills are the hardest to swallow, but they do go down all at once.

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Teófilo de Jesús's avatar

U-n-r-e-a-l. A joy to read. Thanks for sharing.

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Rivets's avatar

Another classic.

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Jonathan Kieran's avatar

A boxer who runs after you to snipe that you’re the incarnation of Miss Havisham? It’s like catching my brutish, surreptitiously nose-picking mechanic out behind his garage in climactic coitus with a goat, then having him scuttle after me, pants around his ankles, to hiss, “You’re just like a Schlegel girl, with your beastly pretensions to art. Howards End shall never be yours!”

You dodged a bullet with ol’ Bluto, Wilson. Whull.

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Rainydaypuppets's avatar

Damn ... I just love your writing :)

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appleton king's avatar

i mean

who even Are you? and how did i get this?

that is so fucking funny and hard to believe its true!!!

it is true...right?

it Cannot be true

is it!

anyways not bad ha

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Deborah Demander's avatar

Thank you for making my day.

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Norma Stitz's avatar

African finger snap . . . . X 6

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Cintra Wilson's avatar

Why thanky Mizz Stitz

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Jody Rhone's avatar

Vivid. Not a story I will soon forget.

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