Life Sometimes Sucks – July 31 2008 by Dani

Tags -- Stubby

I hate it when there is nothing I can do, nobody to call and no understanding of why something bad happens.

Many times the people have done nothing to deserve what they got.

Today I found out that my most favorite person here on the river has an infection they cannot heal – an intruder that is absolutely not welcomed but can only be removed by destroying it and everything around it.

The doctors related it to diabetic neuropathy – but Stubby does not have diabetes – they think he injured his knee and never bothered to have it looked at.

He just drank more recipe to mask the pain.

I asked Lisa if she was in love – only with a really nice and smart human being that is well endowed she told me. She is not in LOVE with him – just really good friends – to someone nobody understands and everyone shies away from.

I knew he was good within 5 seconds of first meeting him. Moms and Pops took 3 months to meet him. He kept leaving gifts of vegetables and flowers and one time fish that we did not see for two days and only found because of the smell.

One night Pops stayed up until dawn to catch ‘it’ they called him. Pops fell asleep and ‘it’ covered him with a blanket from the cabana and stole his whiskey.

One Monday they returned from a rare weekend trip home to find four new flowerbeds with wild flowers from around the area – they have grown every year since until the recent flood.

Pops left him bottles of Jack as gifts and he left the empties filled with recipe. One favorite time Pops loves to talk about is the time, about a month after Pops starting leaving him Jack, ‘it’ left a message spelled out in rocks.

It said C O K E. Pops left him a case of cans, a case of 20oz bottles, a case of liters and a case of 2 liters.

The next morning they were gone.

About a month later mom saw this funny looking dog sniffing around the deck and she heard someone get mad at ‘Skippy’. She opened the door to say Hi and Skippy came in, jumped on the most expensive chair in the room and went to sleep.

Mom saw Stubby and invited him in. He refused saying the ceiling was TOO high. They drank coffee together on the deck and Pops came down.

He made his hot toddy and walked out to the deck to see Mom – he did not know Stubby was there. Stubby took Pops coffee cup and smelled it; he smiled and surprised Moms and Pops with all his teeth.

He handed back Pops cup and took a swig of coffee, Pops asked if he preferred a hot toddy and Stubby’s eyes lit up.

Pops brought him a cup full of tea and the bottle of Jack. Stubby poured out half the tea into a flowerpot and re-filled it with Jack.

Moms asked if he liked coffee and Stubby shook his head no. Moms asked why he took in the first place. He said his first words that day.

He pointed to himself and said “Being Nice”. What a fucking understatement.