Yesterday morning Julian (congrats Julian, by the way, on getting a job! I have more respect for this guy every day) found a very small bullet in the upstairs hallway. How small? I'm not really good at that sort of thing; its smaller than any I've ever used or loaded, about the size to fit in a pellet dispenser.
So how do we react to a situation like that? Well, it's all about context. There are times when we probably wouldn't do anything, but on this particular Tuesday we were already several days into Freddy being fed up with a few low-brow guests, the Spaniard and his lady of the night and the peculiarly-associated student-friend of the lady of the night. So in a sweeping move that physicists will study at thinktanks for decades, that tiny, magical bullet knocked three grown adults out of Piratas without ever even being fired, and did so without grazing a hair on a head of any of the boys- you know the boys- who have no doubt been well aware of and thigh-high in all the goings on from the very beginning, as they always tend to be. Alakazam!
On a separate note, I believe statistics would show that a higher number of fellas gets booted out in the slow season than the high season- and therefore a greatly disproportionate amount. You'd think it the other way around, that in times of their highest expendability they'd more likely get tossed, but then you'd be misunderstanding the mechanics of the operation. It is in the time's of greatest stress on management that their antics are least tolerated.
Of course we never figured out where that bullet came from, if anybody in the house had a firearm or anything like that. But it was interesting, I'll tell ya, how quickly the names of the 3 were volunteered (shall we use the word "sacrificed"?) following Freddy's threat to call the police and have them sweep the premises. Should we take that as a sudden conversion to good Samaratianism... or as plain evidence that some of our precious, darling, ne'er-do-wrong long-termers have good reason to avoid any searches?
Just another day at 165!
