It’s a Crazy Life (Part 4)

I told her to give me a couple of days and I would call her. Sure enough, within a couple of days, Ellis was on a drinking binge and I sneaked over and stole his cats and put them in a crate and took them to the lady for her kids. I know it’s terrible, but I solved my trash problem and I really don’t think he took care of them very well, which is probably the reason that they were in the trash in the first place. A few days later he asked me if I had seen them and I truthfully told him that the last time I saw them was a few days ago.

Bicycling to Brawls
During one of the many fights that Ellis and Leona had, she decided to leave him and went to live with some of her family in Oklahoma City, which was about four hours away and took their only car. Genius boy decided that he could ride his bike there and left to “go get her.” I didn’t see him for about a week and I thought he might have actually made it but when he got home he told me that he had only gotten as far as a bar in the next town over and gotten drunk, mouthed off to someone, and gotten beat up so bad he was in the hospital for three days.

The Snooping Neighbors
Now we had some neighbors who lived directly across the street from us who for some odd reason thought that we were the most interesting people because they watched us constantly. To give you an idea of how much they watched us, they would point out any deviations in our normal routine. I guess you have to have a really boring life to watch me all day. They even thought that my wife was having an affair with my dad! My dad worked in Gentry and would stop by a couple of times a week and visit with her and see my oldest daughter, who was the only one at the time.

Baby Monitor Affair
Across the street on the north side was a couple who we didn’t know very well. I don’t even think that I ever knew their names. However, one night when putting my daughter to bed, I turned on the baby monitor and began to hear some of the most sexually explicit dialog I have ever heard coming from the baby monitor. I heard it several more times before I realized that it was coming form the neighbors’ cordless phone. Yikes! She was explaining her sexual preferences to the guy with whom she was having an affair while her husband was at work.