“Hello, friend, it’s me, CRAZY! Yeah, CRAZY! So good to hear your voice.”

[Claire]

I've taken to sighing audibly lately. I hope it's a habit I break. SOON. My grandma does it! It's almost a compulsion now....I feel the need to sigh....audibly...right now!!! Crap!!!

Eliza, the town with the Doll Lady is McMinnville, OR. The same town boasts Superman/Spiderman and the Box Guy. Craziness!!! The funny thing is that before I met my husband (he's from there) I lived with someone from that town so I already knew of the town crazies. I used to be the sort of person who approached them and would buy them coffee.....and ask them questions. I talked to Doll Lady in Wal*Mart once, but she doesn't make sense, no complete sentences out of her. Superman wouldn't even look at me. And I've never seen Box Guy, but I've looked in his front window....all boxes, in a gorgeously delicate Victorian style house.

Martha, the witch, I talked to her once and bought her coffee at Mini-Mart when I was 19sh and it turned out she was related to a girl I went to school with...her aunt....but the girl never spoke up and told anyone. I felt really bad. For both of them.

I forgot about Bottle Can Clyde! He lived in the town where I went to high school....homelessish for years (he most likely had a house, never saw him sleep on the streets), then suddenly quit drinking and got a job at a grocery store (proximity to cans and bottles, I wonder?). He mumbled, cussed at cars, and wandered, picking up cans in ditches for at least years that I know of, before he suddenly went respectable. Weirdest thing!! And the funny thing.....his name isn't actually Clyde, but I can't remember what it is.

Gosh, I feel like wandering downtown to talk to the guy who pees in broad daylight (seen him do it now twice at my busstop) and the flashing lady with the saggy ass tits OR the guy who wears the white collar and claims to be from the Church of Venus......or the guy in the wheelchair who refuses to push it with his hands, so he scoots it with his feet, unless he can't make it up a curb, so he gets out and pushes it up the curb......I love that guy!