Trillium 2012

Things Were Looking Up

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I know I can go kind of nuts once in a while but I've got a psych file thicker than a Greater Toronto phone book. A common problem was I'd end up personally involved with some of my shrinks - women mostly.
They seemed bored as hell and would sit there, sigh and look at their laptop or clipboard, yawn and ask these dumb, clinically derived questions. It was always "On a scale of 1 to 10, do you-"
I'd say, "Just put down 10 for everything."
That would make them look up and sometimes frown and sometimes smile and I'd say, "What do you do for kicks?"
"Pardon me?" or "What?" was the usual response...

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Basil Papademos

Basil Papademos is the author of The Hook of it is (Emergency Press). His second novel, Mount Royal, will be published by Tightrope Books this spring.

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