Old Friends
joe gave his old friend $300 to bring them food anytime he visits joe gave his old friend $300 to bring food since joe doesn't like getting dressed or ever having to leave retired with no other friends nothing to do nowhere to go the $300 was a drop in the bucket to joe and with health better than his old friend's with nothing to otherwise do nowhere to otherwise go getting dressed going somewhere doing anything shouldn't have been any more than a drop in joe's bucket either but joe won't leave his house or sofa both long infused with the smell of their only lonely occupant so his friend comes by every few weeks with food joe paid for from various places he thinks joe might like and sometimes he brings joe soda or beer or old-time candy that joe's hinted he might like sometimes he brings joe spices and herbs he thinks joe might like sometimes he brings joe medicines he thinks might help if it'll be a while between visits he'll call to check on joe since joe has no other friends nowhere to go and nothing to do if a few weeks elapse his old friend will call to make sure joe isn't dead though joe never calls if a few weeks happen to elapse without hearing from his old broken-down friend his friend stops by every few weeks with food and concern so joe reluctantly accepts and allows him in as they eat and talk joe as normal ridicules his friend's voraciousness and ridicules his strange beliefs about herbal cures and conspiracies then will ridicule him again after he wakes from falling dead asleep so quickly after their meal a few times his friend suggested maybe they go somewhere besides joe's house to eat and talk but the cascade of frail excuses made it clear to his friend that wasn't in the cards his friend will leave and joe will wish he wouldn't come around so often even though nobody else including the family joe claims to miss does sometimes joe will consider if he's a good a friend to this guy the only one who ever calls him brings him food and candy and spices and medicine the only one who shows him any concern joe will fall a sleep too from the same meal minutes after his friend leaves assuring himself he's a fine friend for giving him $300 dollars for both of them to eat and for so kindly allowing him to break bread at his table joe will assure himself of being a fine friend to the lonely guy bringing food his wife long dead his children moved away needing someone to entertain all of his nonsense about conspiracies and herbal remedies joe's old friend might be a sucker since he's got plenty of money of his own but still nobody else quite understands and accepts joe's pitifully wretched state quite like joe's old friend
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