a fine evening, just fine

Last night's Mad Men was pretty good. Kinda below par for the show, but Betty's labor scenes and Pete's trials while trying to cash in on the "Negro demographic" were both compelling. The episode just wasn't as good as say, the one where Don Draper won over the new clients with an impassioned speech, then cheated on his wife. Remember? The one where he smoked cigarettes?

Anyway, an enjoyable episode. After which Merkel and I went out to the porch to smoke our own cigarettes (which I can't do as well as Don). Shortly after we sat down, the neighbor who lives directly above us began yelling. That's nothing new for him, but tonight it wasn't about getting into fights or drunken "singing". He began shouting about wanting to go to "The Swedish hospital". This was amusing, sounded like beer-soaked gibberish. Chuckles were exchanged. Then he started yelling about killing himself. Not as funny. By this point he's at the top of his lungs, and is running around, apparently throwing anvils at bears, that's how fucking noisy it was. The noise from our ceiling sounded like football practice. This man is batshit. Starting to think he may follow through. I'm frozen for a moment, then I remember the last thing I want to witness right now is a body screaming vertically past my patio to get to the sidewalk. Time to go inside, perhaps. We hear him scream, which gets louder as his pounding footsteps run from one end of the apartment to right the fuck above our fucking heads shit he's on the porch he's fucking going to fucking jump-

He didn't do it. He kept up the racket for awhile, 911 was called, and the fire department showed up promptly. About fifteen firemen came inside to subdue the crazeball. Crazeball was led out strapped to a gurney, which he apparently did not care for. The "Swedish Hospital" in question turned out to be an actual place, the Swedish Covenant Hospital. This whole episode may have been old hat for the guy, but I can't say the same for me. I was sure he was going to jump. I was sure of it.

 But yeah, Mad Men was pretty good.