Don’t Commit Arson, Then Try to go to Rehab

While in the ER awaiting detox for my son, he and I heard a man’s conversation on speakerphone next to us. He was trying to get the girl on the other side of the waiting room (notice HE didn’t even want to sit next to her) into a rehab.

“They said she couldn’t come in because she has an arson case,” he told the woman on speakerphone.

“She has an ARSON CASE?” the woman yelled. “Of course they’re not going to let her in! She might get pissed off and burn the building down! If you had told me she had an arson case, I would’ve told you that no rehab was gonna take her.”

Just when my son and I had thought we’d seen it all. I don’t know which part was more shocking to me: that she’d committed arson, that now no one would even help her help herself, or that she was a female and had committed arson. Only in L.A.

I told my son, “At least you don’t have that problem.” He agreed.