well trained, or alternatively, i couldn't make this shit up

irene and paul have a granddaughter named cheyenne who stops by fairly frequently with her mother. cheyenne is probably about 5yrs old and has taken a liking to santos. every time she sees me she asks if santos is coming out to play soon. she was here this afternoon after i got out from my exam, and i took santos out for a bit because i have a weakness for cute little kids (i hate ugly kids though).

during the time, cheyenne played with santos and i talked with irene and her daughter. irene spent the 5-10 mins filling me in on her conversation with butch from yesterday. apparently irene was just nodding and saying yes so that butch would go away. not only that, but she hates butch as well as mary. but she also added 2 new bits of info, at least new to me.

first, a suspicion that dominique and i had has been confirmed. irene paused mid-conversation, looked at me, and said, "you know she's a dyke now?" dominique and i have guessed that mary was a lesbian, particularly once butch became a regular here. suffice it to say that the walls between mary's bathroom and irene's bathroom are "very thin," and irene hears conversations (and probably other stuff) she doesn't want to.

it gets worse. i've already mentioned how i accidentally saw mary naked (vomit) and how butch is not at all ashamed of her body (however, both really really should be). well apparently our landlord came by to mary's apartment to tell her that butch can't stay there and live with her (i think butch has her own place somewhere in town, but is here all the time so i'm not sure) and butch answered the door without a shirt on. our landlord (john) then came running into irene's apartment and was all pale-faced and apologized but said he had to get in there quickly after what he'd just seen. then irene tells me that she also sat out at the picnic table without a shirt on and jordan, irene's 17yr old son, came running into the apartment all grossed out after seeing this the other day. next time the cops are getting a call.

the other new thing i learned revolves around this retarded looking kid who hangs out with mary and butch. when i say retarded i dont mean that he's down with downs, but he definitely doesn't look right. well apparently he and butch were sitting out at the picnic table talking the other night and irene overheard them talking about how he's schizophrenic. as in he actually has multiple personalities to the point where he even beats himself up sometimes (think fight club). apparently his arm is all bruised from when one of his personalities decided to fuck up one of the other ones. personally, i'd fuck them all up.

so tonight after dinner irene, her daughter, cheyenne, mary, butch, and two older people i dont know who had a little girl with them (i think they were with mary and butch) were all outside. it was like a fucking circus sideshow out there, really. i cant make this shit up people. so i took santos out and cheyenne came over to the yard to play with him after he took care of business. the other little girl (tessa) followed cheyenne out there. cheyenne began picking some flowers and urged tessa to do the same. tessa was hesitant, probably because santos is a big dog, not because she didn't want to pick the flowers. cheyenne, however, must've assumed that tessa was afraid mary would yell at her for picking the flowers (because mary is the yard nazi), and yelled over to tessa, "it's ok, mary's actually being nice today."

kids are so honest it's great. and cheyenne is one well trained kid.