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18 aug 06

"Why don't you come to my office so i can play with your feet...ps...I'll take you out to a nice Indian buffet?"

weirdo.

actually, i did recently get embedded with a frustrating splinter on the ball of my right foot. it hurts a bit in that sickening splinter-ish way, but those nerve endings have pretty much given up by now. however, the foreign object remains, a little black speck visible through the transluscence of my foot-skin, despite my efforts to pick it out with a needle. and even though i'm not as enchanted by indian food as i was two years ago, i still won't pass up the opportunity for a buffet of it. actually, i think i'm just tired of vegetarian indian food -- there's this great place near my house, and i've been there a few too many times.

but this all might be lies.

i was going to post the email conversation between this Mystery Person and me (i answered his question directly, via personal email), but thought better of it, because it included my full name. recently, a google miracle has come to pass: all mentions of my name have vanished. well, that's not true, but all connection between me and this site have vanished, so a given web-searcher has no idea that my domain is associated with the name "scott joplin".

what the hell -- i don't have to include headers:

Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 12:09 AM
Why don't you come to my office so i can play with your feet...ps...I'll take you out to a nice Indian buffet?

Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:34 AM
sure...what's the address? i'll come up on my next day off.

Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:40 AM
13992 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 200
Laurel, MD 20707
Tuesdays are not a good day!

Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 1:12 PM
are you in the office every day? do you have regular days off?
i keel you

Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 10:22 AM
Well,
Usually 10-5pm and every other Sat.
If you call Kajal at 301-604-9793 (the office tel.) and she answers she can
usually tell you if the patients are spaced apart to get the Indian
buffet!!!!
rg

i'm adding this conversation thirteen days after i created this page -- i wonder if rahul will ever read it, and find his office publicized. actually, it's probably a good thing for him and his practice.

i showed my heart to the doctor
he said i'd just have to quit
then he wrote himself a prescription
and your name was mentioned in it
then he locked himself in a library shelf
with the details of our honeymoon
and i hear from the nurse
that he's gotten much worse
and his practice is all in a ruin

-- leonard cohen
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