Antoine Gets Shot,Takes Bus To Hospital

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Antoine is the kind of guy who spins his wheels, gains momentum and then crashes into the wall. He stands up, brushes the dirt off of himself and then goes and looks for another set of wheels to crash, sometimes into the same wall.
He used to be a Junkie but he was only a Junkie because he was caught up with looking for a wall to hit. If you're looking, you can find a lot of walls. He's a man addicted to the walls.
Antoine always has an excuse for why the most demented I Love Lucy meets Charles Manson type stuff can happen to him. Now, I know a lot of stuff happens to me but.... Well, anyway listen to what happened to Antoine yesterday.
Antoine is a basement boy. A basement boy is someone who is in their thirties or older and still lives in their parents basement. The basement boy has a stunted growth stuck in his head.Mommy, will still do the laundry. He'll owe a lot of people money. He is socially awkward and usually does not have a girlfriend. He may have a nice car or expensive electronics. This is Antoine.
So, he lives in the basement and hears the rain start. He left his boots out in the yard and he went to retrieve them because of the heavy thunderstorms beginning. The door slammed behind him and locked. He was in the heavy rain , in his boxers and boots. He climbed over a neighbors yard and was shot in the leg. The gun was a small caliber. He freaked out and went running into the street. He knew that he needed to get to the hospital but instead of using a public phone to call 911 he went to the White Castle for change of a twenty which hew kept in his boot, to catch the bus to Woodhull hospital.
While he was already in White Castle , he ordered five cheese burgers and a vanilla shake. So, he gets his change and gets on the bus which finally shows up. He tells the driver that he's been shot,
The driver is watching him eat his burgers and drink his shake.
The driver makes all his stops. Antoine complains but the driver points out that it can't be that serious if Antoine was willing to stop at the White Castle and get burgers and a shake. Antoine shrugs.
So, Antoine stays on the bus and now the bleeding is getting serious. He finally gets to the waiting room in the Emergency and instead of signing in, he meets an old Junkie friend of his who says that he can remove the bullet from his leg.
Antoine brings him to the Vortex and the guy fishes out the bullet in about 2 hours of screaming and mayhem. I get to the store and see all this blood. Antoine tells me the events which led to this insanity. I tell him to put on some pants and get some Hydrogen Peroxide and real bandages.... Anyway, if you came to the store yesterday and was surprized that it was closed. It was due to inclement thinking.