{"id":8166,"date":"2011-12-22T23:04:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T21:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=8166"},"modified":"2012-04-17T15:01:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T13:01:47","slug":"when-the-rain-comes-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=8166","title":{"rendered":"When the rain comes down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0by\u00a0Robert Fenhagen [USA]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">pentru versiunea rom\u00e2n\u0103 click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/egophobia.ro\/?p=8155\">aici<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, my God!\u00a0 She\u2019s peeing on the carpet!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Assistant Curator quietly said to her assistant..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould we call the police?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 asked a popping eyed assistant?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They tried not to glare at the disheveled, homeless appearing person, who had stopped<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and urinated on the Museum\u2019s new hundred thousand dollar carpeting.\u00a0\u00a0 She now stood<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>next to the darkening spot on the beige carpeting that maintained its lovely nap even after<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>such an unsavory downpour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsn\u2019t it lovely?\u00a0\u00a0 Asked the homeless woman.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s growing.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s alive.\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s natural, and it is me.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a but a small contribution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me just get Margaret out here to make sure she wants to call the police, or handle it<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>in-house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the Assistant Curator disappeared through the Curator\u2019s thick walnut office door,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>they reappeared a few moments later.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCall the rug service, but no outside interference will come in.\u00a0 I mean \u00a0the police.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Margaret. Surely we cannot have her continue to be here.\u00a0\u00a0 What\u2019s next?\u00a0\u00a0 We turn<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>our backs as she defecates on the carpeting that we worked to hard to procure?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI suggest that you two calm down.. Obviously, you don\u2019t know who she is. Her family<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>donated a million-five last year.\u00a0\u00a0 She is Philomena Watts, daughter of \u00a0Sheldon Watts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Watts Foundation?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Curator replied with a slightly pained, but patient smile and nod of her head; the<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>same smile and nod\u00a0 that she would give a child.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, please call the carpet people and why don\u2019t one of you show her around.\u00a0\u00a0 Nicely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Finis<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0by\u00a0Robert Fenhagen [USA] pentru versiunea rom\u00e2n\u0103 click\u00a0aici &nbsp; &nbsp; \u201cOh, my God!\u00a0 She\u2019s peeing on the carpet!\u201d &nbsp; The Assistant Curator quietly said to her assistant.. 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