Man Enough!

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Suspense Bedtime

The sound of arguing, drunken arguing upstairs and someone was insulting someone else about being MAN ENOUGH! Then right after that an undefined threat and they were going to... but it was undefined.

Without seeing it, I just knew. I didn't have to see it, I just knew it.

The Spice Channel was on and a hot-looking woman, or women, were smearing chocolate on a lover, or lovers, and deliciously licking it off. I didn't have to see it to know it.

Wondering if 911 had been called, AGAIN, by an alarmed neighbor, while the Spice Channel was defining what a REAL MAN is.

He has rock-hard abs, steroid enhancement muscles and donger the size of a horse's donger ...according to the Spice Channel.

When a woman's voice, I think it was a woman's voice, was screaming "NO, NO, NO, STOP IT!" then sound of a falling body and wrestling, I could hear wrestling on the floor as the Spice Channel was probably on, and a hot-looking woman, or women, were probably smearing chocolate on a lover, or lovers, and it was defining what a REAL MAN is.

He's got rock-hard abs, steroid enhanced muscles and a donger the size of a horse's donger, that's what makes him a REAL MAN! I didn't have to see it to know it.

After answering an ad on the scandalously naughty website Craig's list and I was renting a house with five strangers who seemed normal--at first--but when they started partying and drinking the address to house got to be well-known by the police in Magna Utah.

We were that house where they were... (undefined) and the Neighbor Watch saw the house as being the equivalent of Magna Utah's version of Spaan Ranch, remember the Manson Family?

We were the equivalent of Magna Utah's version of Spaan Ranch I found out later.

As the bumping and banging of someone wrestling with someone else on the floor, and "NO-NO-NO STOP IT!" could be overheard.

After answering an ad on the scandalously naughty website Craig's list, and I should've known better, but I didn't.

I got a crash course in how to handle life-or-death situations, and I could tell it was going to a week or a month or several months away, before I became a witness being interviewed on a crime show where blood was found at the scene -it was only a matter of time.

With the sound of arguing, drunken arguing, and someone wasn't MAN ENOUGH upstairs in Magna Utah, and I should have known better.

Now a word to the wise, when the driveway and yard are fenced-in so warrants can't be served any closer than the street, the police can't come to the door and ring the doorbell for a reason.

Don't sign the rental agreement! Look for another place and don't sign the rental agreement!

Upon getting crash course, I got a crash course in how to negotiate with drug-addled and alcohol-impaired current and future criminals, it was only a matter of time.

Once as I was holding someone back from grabbing a knife to stab another person in the house, I learned you handled a crisis in stages.

The First Stage is getting them to believe a lie that it will be alright WHEN IT WON'T! There was a knife involved, SO IT WON'T!

The Second Stage in handling a life-or-death crisis, is make sure they can't get revenge ON YOU! -after they figure-out you lied to them to end the crisis.

Getting a crash course in how to handle a crisis is like being a snake-charmer who kisses the cobra's head, not because the snake-charmer loves the cobra, but because it's part of the show.

The Third Stage to handling a crisis is be-good at pretending-to-be something you are not, like Shakespeare said: All the world is a stage, and we are actors upon that stage.

You need to be good at pretending to be something you're not and know how to be actor on that stage when there is life-or-death crisis that you have to handle.

From the experience of holding someone back from grabbing a knife to stab someone else with, in the house, after answering an ad on the scandalously naughty website Craig's list, and I should have known better.

When the driveway and the yard are fenced-in so police can't serve a warrant any closer than from the street, that's why the driveway and yard were fenced-in so the police could not serve a warrant any closer than the street.

Can you say Crack house?

Once again as arguing, I could hear drunken arguing, upstairs, and I didn't have to see it to know it.

That the Spice Channel was probably on, and a hot-looking woman, or women, were smearing chocolate on a lover, or lovers, and then deliciously licking it off and pretty soon, then, someone wasn't going to be MAN ENOUGH!

Like a snake-charmer who kisses the cobra's head, not because they love the cobra, but because it is part of the show.

Shakespeare said all the world is a stage, and we are actors upon that stage, and he was right -especially when there is a crisis.

June 21, 2023 13:42

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