Journal mcgrew's Journal: Roomer's rumors 1
I'm terrible at names and can't remember this woman's, but she and her husband are regulars at Felber's. She's a big corn-fed farm girl, more masculine than a lot of men, especially with her short haircut. If she wasn't married I'd probably think she was a lesbian.
A Sunday or two ago it was a nice day and I was out in the beer garden enjoying the weather and watching folks play horseshoes with a bunch of other people and talk turned to relationships. I said something about how couples were lucky, and she mentioned that she had a friend who was going through a divorce. "Introduce me!" I said.
"Well, she doesn't go out much..." Which meant that unlike my last two girlfriends, this lady probably wouldn't be fininshing her first beer before my coffee finished perking.
A few nights ago she was at the bar talking with me while her husband was playing the poker machines. She mentioned that she had yet another friend who'd been with her boyfriend for nine years, and he'd just had a knee replacement. After the guy became a cyborg he changed completely and started ignoring her and chasing women, and they were breaking up. She's going to be at Felber's Sunday, too.
I started talking about cyborgs, and it turns out she's a cyborg, too, having all sorts of parts replaced - hips, knees, shoulders.
You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. If you don't believe me, ask your grandma, she's probably a cyborg, too. We cyborgs are taking over the world; the last US Vice President is a cyborg.
She siad apprehensively that the woman was short - and seemed relieved when I told her I prefer short women. Gees, if this chick wears glasses I'll probably fal lin love.
After all this time I'm not hopeful, though.
Saturday will find me driving to St Louis, as Patty wants to see her grandma before she goes back to Ohio. Coincidentally (my life is unbelievably full of coincidene) Mike called yesterday. Actually everybody was calling yesterday. Leila called early in the morning, then she called again at lunch complaining about her mom. I called her sister and left a voicemail.
Mike called me on my work phone, and I told him about the missing cell phone and gave him my new number and got his, and told him I might be seeing him Saturday.
Tami called, she had a few bucks and wanted to do some drinking with me. So I picked her up after work and we went to my house for beer. A knock came at the door - George. "I've got some news about Charlie", he said. I've been on the outs with Charlie for a month over some money she owes me. She's been staying with Stuart, a disabled worker for the Illinois Secretary of State who walks with a cane. She'd been living with me until she went to the hospital with a hole in her gut.
"She got shot at last night."
"Somebody shot at her? Who shot at her? Is she all right?"
"Stuart shot at her, and he missed. I don't know all the details, but there was a bullet hole in two of his house's walls and part of the easement. Charlie called 911 and he took off, saying he was going to kill her, AJ, and Jay".
I'm not sure who Jay is, but AJ's a whore, which makes it more interesting since Charlie hates whores. I don't know why she's so anti-whore; she was married before and I suspect that maybe her husband was a whoremonger. I wonder if AJ was over there and Charlie had words about it?
"Stuart's in jail now," George said. "They picked him up about a half hour later and found a loaded gun in his trunk. He's facing all kinds of charges. Charlie was up all night last night, she's over at John and Jennifer's now, sleeping."
I wonder what Charlie did to piss Stuart off enough to want to kill her?
This morning I checked the newspaper for details, and there's nothing in the paper about it. Maybe it's a hoax, or a joke, or something. Rumor. But they don't print everything in this cartoon town's paper.
The paper did have an amusing item, though, about a beer whore. I've mentioned Annie, the whiskey whore, but apparently there's a woman who got arrested for offering sex for beer.
A 44-year-old woman was arrested after allegedly offering sex in exchange for beer money Wednesday night at Spammy's, 1041 E. Stanford Ave.
Police said officers were sent to the bar about 9:30 p.m. to look for a woman, later identified as Annice M. Taft of the 2200 block of Lexington Drive, who was a suspect in a traffic incident. While at the bar, witnesses said Taft had been making sexual advances to other patrons and causing a disturbance.
One witness told police Taft entered the bar and ordered a beer but was 25 cents short.
Taft then asked a patron if he wanted to buy some marijuana from her, according to the witness. When the patron declined, Taft allegedly asked if he would buy her the beer in exchange for sex.
Taft eventually borrowed the money from another patron and left with the beer, a police report said.
Officers arrested Taft at her apartment.
Love the name of that bar. It's walking distance from my house, but I've only been there a couple of times. They don't have any draft beer, and a twelve ounce bottle cost as much as a forty ounce at Felber's, who has draft for a buck. I didn't care much for the clientelle or bartenders at Spammys, either.
Then there's the Incestuous rapist kiddie fiddling cop.
A preliminary hearing on sexual assault charges against a Springfield police officer has been continued until July 23, leaving open the possibility prosecutors may seek to have Kevin Barrington indicted by a grand jury instead.
Barrington, 51, was charged last month with aggravated criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual abuse, criminal sexual assault and sexual relations with family.
The alleged victims are two girls who are now both adults. Sexual contact between Barrington and one victim allegedly lasted for 15 years.
A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Thursday, but was continued for two weeks at the request of the defense. An attorney status hearing to determine if Barrington will retain private counsel has been continued until Wednesday.
The Sangamon County grand jury is scheduled to meet July 23, which means prosecutors could ask for an indictment rather than present evidence at an open court hearing. Grand jury proceedings are secret.
Barrington, a 22-year veteran of the police department who most recently was a neighborhood officer, is being held in the Sangamon County Jail on $250,000 bond. He is on unpaid administrative leave pending the outcome of his court case and an internal investigation by the police department. The unpaid leave took effect Sunday, according to the police department.
Tell me these people aren't cartoons!
Worse than a beer whore... (Score:1)