Re: Dirty Little Girl

The other day, a filthy little girl asked me if she could come home with me. Not filthy little girl as in an underage hooker, but physically dirty. Looked like her mom had rolled her around on the ground or something. Matted blonde hair, smudged, dirty clothes, still had a hospital bracelet on her wrist. Maybe about 8 or 9 years old. She reminded me of Miranda when Miranda was younger. Because I'm a County Employee, I had to feed her the company lines: "Oh, someone will come out & together you'll all decide what's best for you and your mom". I wasn't surprised when they sent her & her mom off in the taxi, though. We're at shelter capacity - some 150 kids in custody & another 100 or so in foster care. The last thing they'd want to do is bring yet another problem child into care. She told me she didn't want to stay w/her mom because her mom is stupid. They both looked so exhausted, mother & daughter both. The girl had no shoes on so it was battle royale as her mom & the CPS worker tried to get her into the taxi - she kept yelling about her feet. The pavement was probably pretty hot, but she did walk into the office on her own w/no shoes to begin with. Another woman watching all of this asked me if it would be wrong to offer to take the girl off her mom's hands. I just said that I would probably stay out of things, simply because her mom looked like a druggie & there could be liability issues, but really it's because it could have made a volatile situation worse. You never want to make a bad situation worse by implying someone in that office actually NEEDS to be separated from their kids. Like prison, where everyone behind bars is innocent & has been framed, at CPS there are no bad, abusive, neglectful or incompetent parents or caretakers - it's the system that's fucked up.

I took Cthulhu to work w/me last night. He greatly enjoyed his visit to the Excalibur & says He may want to return to smite some enemies. One of my coworkers kept referring to Him as 'Rancho Cucamonga'... and Jeff outright refused to acknowledge His presence. Cthulhu is very displeased. But Duane offered Him proper homage. Cthulhu is a mighty God, even if He is only 6" tall.