to expect.i'd never even seen the place. we
pulled up into the parking lot, and my
friends father went around the back and
started taking our suitcases out of the
trunk. there were all these people, out on
the sunporch, shaking the screens and
screaming. oh they were yelling and
howling and stomping. scared the hell out
of me. i went around the back of the car
and started putting the suitcases back in, as
fast as he could take them out!
of course, after i'd been there a while i got
to know the patients. what they would do,
was wait until a new batch of students was
due in, and on the morning they were all
due to arrive, they'd watch for them. they
spent all day on the sunporches anyway, it
was the only place to put them, and when
they'd see a carload of new students pull in
they'd really give 'em the business. yelling
and hollering and making a huge ruckus.
then they'd laugh. they loved to scare the
new blood. and if we said anything to them
like "oh now cut that out!" they'd remind us
how scared WE had been, and then laugh
at us as well.
they had to have SOME fun, after all.