How much is that doggy in the window...

For reasons known only to a faceless , ~ but I'm guessing, post-ironic~, bureaucrat, we  share a parking lot with the Substance Abuse Outreach Team. 

Generally this is not much of a problem as most of their clients people  do not currently own  either a vehicle or a license to drive a vehicle...or indeed , have any memory of how to drive a vehicle.They prefer to spend their (largely ill gotten ) gains on cheap drugs and even cheaper alcohol.

Occasionally they stumble into my Unit needing their heads sewn up or a referral to the ever-patient surgeons to treat their intravenous-drug-used-abscess-ravaged blood vessels but after a little altercation seven years ago when I hit one of their clients  who was threatening an old lady and her Alzheimer-raddled husband, they tend to stay well away.

I was walking to my car when I overheard this  one-sided conservation between one of their 'clients' and their intercom.

She was a young , malnourished woman trying to juggle a small white dog under one arm, with  a can of XXXX cider in one hand and trying to  light a hand rolled cigarette whilst holding a call phone and pressing the intercom.

She had clearly partaken of several cans of cider and some pharmaceuticals of dubious quality and legality.

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'What do you mean...I can't bring my dog inside?' she shouted at the intercom.

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'No...its not a guide dog!!!'

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'I don't care about your stupid rules...he's my dog and I want to bring him inside!!!'

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'Well...he's gay, ain't he???'

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"Well I can't leave my poor little gay dog outside...what if some other dog comes over and tries to give him one...???"

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'Well its not his fault he's a gay doggy...'

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'Bastards...'

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I probably should have walked over and told her that it was  Sunday afternoon...

...and that the clinic was closed ...

...and that she was having a conversation with...well....herself.

But this blog doesn't write itself...