.... a memoir from Friar Dave, about meeting a very special young woman and the first encounter with her and how things thus began to Get Out of Hand. This memoir is very explicit, but not to worry, Dear Reader, because I have changed the names to protect those who had a helluvalot of fun, and if tales of people getting to know each other in Every Way offend you, this is a real good time to erase this file. Any and all feedback -- positive and negative -- would be appreciated. === I'd been patronizing the 'mat for about six months, ever since they did their renovation. Finding a good laundromat isn't always easy, especially in a working folks' neighborhood when your hours bring you home from work after eight. By then, honest working folks are home, fed and usually watching the tube. But the newly renovated 'mat next to the subway was open till nine- thirty, which meant I could drop off my clothes on the way to work and pick them up on the way home. And they did a nice job. It didn't hurt that they had the lovely young Filipina working there on the late shift. Sometimes her kid was with her. The little girl was about 11 or so, all spindly and quick, with huge dark eyes -- like her mom -- and a quick smile -- like her mom -- and an infectious, impish laugh. Sometimes she'd be working on her homework at one of the empty folding tables, sometimes sitting there with her cousin and paging through teenager magazines. One October Thursday night, as I walked in, Sabrina came up to me at the door. |