and when I heard the knock on the door I got up ready to either invite a friend or neighbor in or chase someone off. When I got to the door it was someone I didn't recognize. Then I saw he was carrying a couple of pizzas in the insulated pizza delivery whatever you call that damned thing.
I had not ordered a pizza so I figured the poor bastard was lost. I opened the door and he beat me to the punch. "Sir, are you 653?" he asked.
I deflated in an instant. There's no way in hell I could be angry at some poor guy trying to make a living. I pointed across the street diagonally. "Over there," I said. "It's not your fault they don't have a number on their house. Maybe he's hiding from the mob because he got mistaken for the guy that got their crack house shut down or maybe he's hiding from the law because he's wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Who knows?"
He grinned, "Thanks. I'm sorry for the disturbance," he said.
'Don't be," I said. "It's not your fault. You're just trying to make an honest living. I respect you for that."
He left and wandered across the street, returned to his car and drove off.
The entire thing was a non event.
There's no way in hell I can slight some poor soul trying to make ends meet.
I went back to my movie, Beau Geste, the original silent movie.
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There are three movies named 'Beau Geste', four if you count the Marty Feldman 'Last remake'.
The first one was with Ronald Coleman. It's a silent movie and pretty good, all things considered. It came out in 1926.
The next one came out in 1939 and starred Gary Cooper. It's the best one of the three.
In 1966 Guy Stockwell, Doug McClure and Telly Sevalas rolled around in the desert for the third make of it. It kinda sucked.
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