Okay. I take back everything I said about the Lady on Lamboll Street. In case you missed it… this past summer… a woman pitched her Cadillac up on the curb where “Me & the Girls” were walking. Max, Frances, and I stood there dumbfounded.

She rolled down her window, and quite pointedly accused me of watering my dogs on her house. To reiterate, I didn’t understand what she meant, at first. What the heck was “Water my dogs on her house?”

She meant peeing.

Okay. Got it.

“No Ma’am. I would never think of watering my dogs on your house. I’m not even sure where on God’s Green Earth you live.”

At any rate, she went on to say that imbeciles water their filthy animals on her home…. and her man, Leon, had to wash and scrub her house, AGAIN.   I then spot Leon… just across the way. Washing and scrubbing. He was about 102 years old…

Ms. Caddy-Lack then informs me (at great length) that humans… yes… derelicts…. vagrants…. scoundrels … have been watering on her house as well. They will let ANYONE downtown these days, she continued, in her southern Charleston drawl. Her ranting continued for several minutes.

I stood there thinking….”Well….. she must be off her meds.”

I know that I am running on here. But that is the gist of last summer’s incident.

Well… I take it ALL back. Every little word I mumbled about that nice, sane, lady.

Low and behold, I was walking back down Lamboll just yesterday, on my way home from an appointment….. and there… in the midday sun… stood a guy peeing on the side of our house.  OUR house!

So now…… I really AM standing in the middle of Lamboll Street…. dumbfounded. The first thing out of my mouth is “What the HECK?” The guy looks in my direction, bobs up and down on his heels a time or two… zips up… and off he goes around the corner.

Some people don’t believe in karma… but I tend to think it is alive and well and peeing in the alley ways of Charleston.

I should have never doubted old whacky-doodle-woman in the Cadillac. But I did. I poked a little fun at her. And now look what happened….

Somebody peed on my house.

Hey. Wait just a little minute. That guy looked a little bit like Leon….. actually… he looked a LOT like Leon. Hmmm.

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
– Wayne Dyer