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“So. How exactly do you go about running over a mailbox?”
One morning, I asked Lyle that question as he was giving himself a haircut with scissors over a towel spread in the bathroom sink. “What’s the procedure?”
“I hallucinated,” he growled. “I thought it was you.”
His gruffness discouraged repartee.
“You’re an idiot,” I said.
“And you, my friend, know nothing of serious matters.”
A sidelong glance belied his mood of gravity. “I met a friend of yours last night,” he said, squinting through the wisp of rising mentholated smoke. The cigarette projecting from the corner of his mouth vibrated like a tuning fork when he spoke. “Apparently, she knew you in your formative years.”
I leaned one hand on the paneling outside the doorway and waited for Lyle to finish trimming his mustache and continue. Once his teeth were visible again below his Pancho Villa mustache, he flashed a grin and gestured silently to peek inside his door.
