"Oh shit." Butler motioned for the waitress. "You got cheesecake?" He turned to Stony. "You want cheesecake?" Stony motioned no. "One piece. You want coffee? Two coffees."

"An' I only worked a half day today. They gave us a four-hour training session this morning that was like somethin' out of "The Twilight Zone." We had to sit in this little classroom that had a dummy in a hospital bed instead of a desk. This nurse came in and showed us how to lift the dummy out of bed, how to put it in a wheelchair. Oh yeah, there was this toilet bowl in the corner of the room an' she showed us how to put the dummy on the pot. It was in-fuckin'-credible. The dummy's name was Mister Rubenstein, an' she was talkin' to the dummy in this Bimi singsong like, 'Now, Mees-tah Roo-bon-steen, eet ees time to go to de bathroom.' I swear she wasn't playin' with a full deck, you know? An' everybody was so fuckin' serious, except this spade cat sittin' next to me, MacDonald." Stony paused as the waitress brought the coffees and cheesecake. "This spade MacDonald, he was laughin' his ass off an' this nurse kept stoppin' an' sayin', 'Thees ees see-re-os beez-noss. Mees-tah Mac-Do-nold,' an' he would straighten out for a minute but when she showed us how to wipe the dummy's ass MacDonald totally fell apart. He lets out with a 'Shee-it, I ain't wipin nobody's ass.' We all fell on the fuckin' floor." Stony pinched his face and put his hands on his hips. " 'Mees-tah Mac-Do-nold, pre-haps you weel dee-mon-strate to os all every-ting I been sayin.' MacDonald's sprawlin' all over his seat like this." Stony slouched in his chair, slowly turning his head from side to side, his eyes half-closed and a lazy half grin on his face. "And this cat's wearin' dark blue shades and he's bald, right? The Isaac Hayes number, O.K.? He looks more like a dude that would put people in the hospital than help 'em out. MacDonald looks aroun' at everybody an' then he gets up. This fuckin' cat musta been eight feet tall, an' the nurse puts the dummy back in the bed an' she says, 'Mees-tah Mac-Do-nold, take Mees-tah Roo-bon-steen to de bathroom.' MacDonald bops over to the bed and throws back the covers and she yells out, 'Gently! an' tok to heem!' MacDonald does one of these numbers." Stony turns his head to show a hard smirk. "He stares at her for about thirty seconds, an' he turns back to the dummy in the bed an' he says, 'Hey! Mah man Rubenstein! You-all gotta take a dump?' An' this dummy's all dressed up in pajamas, right? He grabs the front of the dummy's pajama top wit' one hand an' he just drops him in the wheelchair. I'll bet he's the only cat who can do the Memphis Glide while pushin' a wheelchair." Stony jumped up and pretended he was pushing a wheelchair, walking with a dip and bop shuffle around the small table. "The nurse is havin' a shit fit, man, she is beyond words. MacDonald takes the fuckin' dummy wit' two hands, raises it over his head an' throws the dummy down on the pot. The head falls off, one of the arms falls off. I almost had a heart attack from laughin'. The nurse is screamin' her ass off, an' MacDonald just looks at her an' says, 'Aww, stuff it, bitch! Ah quit!' An' he bops outta the room like he just finished shootin' hoops. The fuckin' room, everybody's dyin'. The hip people are on the floor. The straight an' narrows are havin' the horrors like they need the wheelchair. The nurse, Mrs. Churchill, that was her name, Mrs. Churchill, she's chasin' after the dummy's head which was rollin' all over the room. The rest of the dummy fell on the floor. Excedrin headache number two-o-two, you know?"