The Witness Line
And Walter Strand said: “Look at you. Big spender.”
I stayed twelve minutes.
I know it was twelve because I had a nine-fifteen call and I have the calendar entry and I know what time I got on the bus.
Twelve minutes on the thirty-first of December, and then I stood up, and I straightened his blanket, which he did not need, and I said I would come Thursday.
He said, “All right.”