Chapter 2“Are you really going over there tonight?”
“Yes, Delores. Want to come with me?”
“I do not,” she said with a sniff as she pulled on her overcoat. “It’s supposed to rain fairly hard tonight.”
“I have my umbrella and I only live up the street.”
I did own a small compact car parked in the detached heated garage behind my house, but I seldom used it. Never around the neighborhood. I walked everywhere there. I used it only if I needed to go to one of the larger grocery stores in the main part of the city or if I was headed to one of the more posh restaurants for a date. And talk about seldom, I hadn’t been out on a date since early summer and that had been a bit of a disaster.
“What are you and Roy up to tonight?”
“Mr. Miller and I plan to have a quiet night in front of the telev
