A story from BOOB Girls I: The Burned Out Old Broads at Table 12.
They heard it early on; the rumor about a naked man in the laundry room at midnight on the fifteenth of every month. So on that date, the first thing they did after lunch was take a nap because they are senior women and they don’t stay up till midnight. And at that witching hour, Maggie Patten, Hadley Joy Morris-Whitfield, Robinson Leary and Mary Rose McGill crept down the hall to the Meadow Lakes Retirement Community’s laundry room. They paused for just a minute in front of the door. They could hear Willie Nelson wailing from a boom box inside; then Maggie Patten threw open the door.
Willie Vondra was seated behind a card table, a hand of solitaire laid out before him. He was wearing only his cowboy boots, a brown leather vest and his old Stetson hat. He smiled as he looked up at them. “Hello ladies!” he said, “you want to play a game of poker?”
Hadley put her hand over her heart. “I’m not sure I even remember how.”
Robbie took a step backward, “I don’t think I ever knew how.”
Mary Rose McGill looked puzzled. “I don’t think I’m allowed.”
Maggie Patten looked at them for just a second. “I’ll get the chairs,” she said, and she marched toward a storage closet at one end of the laundry room. The game was on!
