The Pleasure of My Company by Steve Martin

Author:Steve Martin
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Fiction - General, Psychological fiction, Fiction, Psychological, Popular American Fiction, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, General
ISBN: 9780786869213
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2003-10-01T05:00:00+00:00

“Where do you work?”

“I train boxers.”

He chuckled. “The fighters or the dogs?”

I made a choice. “The dogs.”

“Ever been in trouble with the law?”

“No.”

I wondered when he was going to ask me a question to which I wasn’t going to lie.

“Are you the exclusive author of your essay?”

“Yes.” I marveled at my ability to answer truthfully with the same barefaced sincerity as I’d displayed on my five previous whoppers.

He explained the judging process to me, made me sign a document promising not to sue, gave me a coupon for a frozen pie, and left. I watched from the window as he walked back to his car, got in it, and sat. He picked up a clipboard from the passenger’s seat, gave it a befuddled examination, and then again elongated his neck as he looked out the windshield toward my apartment and back to the clipboard. I’ve only seen comedians do double takes, but here was one occurring in real life. He got out of his car, once again checking the clipboard against the street numbers. He came up my steps, shuffled in front of my apartment, and rapped a couple of times. I opened the door and saw on his face an expression of bewilderment, as though he had stepped into his shoes in the morning and they were size seventeen.

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