When my daughter was a preteen, she brought two teen sisters over to our home. Several weeks later their neglectful mother, dressed like a teen in a mini skirt came by with a man with Cary Grant good looks. We’re all sitting in the Arizona room when the man begins to reminisce about his time spent in prison. I had a murderer in my home, come to find out. “Lord have mercy,” I thought. It turned out he was actually a double murderer when he revealed he not only murdered someone outside of prison but revealed that he stabbed a man in the neck inside prison too.
Being the inquisitive person, I am, I asked him a few questions. I’d never known anyone who had been in prison at the time. One of my questions was what was it like in prison? The man goes on to say that he was in solitary confinement for the majority of his sentence. No kidding. He stabbed a man in the neck inside prison. Obviously, it’s a tough place I gathered. Why did they let him out?
Cary Grant goes on to tell me about infamous controversial Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County and says how the entire prison was fed only corn dogs for 3 months. “Wow,” I laughed loudly. Hot dogs are the absolute most unhealthy food on earth. Who even knows what goes into hot dogs besides the guts of animals? The corn dogs had been contributed, he said.
Then we begin to discuss how Sheriff Joe Arpaio set up a tent city out in the middle of the desert to house prisoners on labor forces. The desert outside Phoenix is a very hot place. The heat is dry though. That’s true. When the heat would be 105 degrees or higher, that’s getting way too hot for me. I stay inside or get in the pool. I’ve been in the Arizona heat when it was 118 degrees plenty of times. You get back into your car after 10 minutes in a store and you’re getting into a furnace. It’s so hot. It’s smoking hot and basically, only fit for scorpions, snakes, Native Americans and Mexicans. All hell breaks loose if your air conditioner goes out in mid-summer.
While I’m standing in the kitchen with Cary Grant, he tells me how the girl’s mom is really smart. I recall she was a hustler of some sort working in gambling casinos and clubs entertaining men or something of that sort. At this point I had heard enough and politely lied and said I had phone calls and appointments to take care of. When they all get up to leave; the man comes toward me and hugs me. Lord have mercy! I smile and open my massive front door. They walk to their individual cars. As they’re leaving Cary Grant starts doing wheelies on my circular driveway thinking he was impressing the girls which caused massive amounts of dust and dirt to fly into the air and into the house. We had just had rock poured on the driveway. Lord have mercy!
I looked at my daughter straight in her eyes and told her, “Do not bring those people, any of them ever again to this house; and left it at that.” Are you kidding me? You have to watch everything your children are doing. Especially who they are friends with. I had a murderer in my home. Get out!
Always Christian with love at Anne Fisher Foundation. Women Protecting Women & Children. Amen!
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