Ayana and "The Incident"

[Excerpted from "My 47th Birthday"]

Speaking of Ayana... Ayana on the Skype. And it freaked me out.

I'm heading down the hall to... um, Scotty's room and (wait, honest is my
policy, so yeah, I was headed for the can). ANYWAYS, Ayana opens the bedroom
door and she's talking. Ashley is in the living room.

I promptly say to young Ayana : "Who the hell are you talking too?" (Like I said, I was freaked out!)

She says "my friend".

"Your FRIEND?" I say.

I'm sorry. I've never seen any one talk to an I-Pad that was their friend before.

Now here's the funny part.

So I ACT like I'm going to Scott W's room because I can tell she was heading for the can and I didn't want to make her feel like she was inconveniencing ME even though I clearly had right of way and could have legally turned into the can.

So I act like I had no intention of using the can so she would feel comfortable
using the can after such a, well, weird experience.

She takes over the can, (I think she wanted to re-wrap her pretty cool looking, apparently comfortable head wrap) I back out of Scotty's room cause really, there was nothing I need in there.

And I proceed to go outside and have a smoke (sorry if I offended anyone who really knows me  & is silly enough to expect me to believe you didn't know I smoke). As I
hurry back in the house because I really need to hit the can now, it occurs
to me: I  WAS  JUST  OUTSIDE!!!!