She was a veterinarian beloved by her clients,
taking care of their pets and animals needs,
a good citizen never involved in anything shady
She meets an unscrupulous, egotistical doctor,
a shyster who thinks he’s a Don Juan incarnate.
At first she sees through his obvious game
and blatant character defects … but,
for reasons oblivious to me,
she ignores her initial assessment
and falls in love with him.
Her involvement with him becomes the worst
mistake of her seemingly unblemished life.
He has an ex-girlfriend who’s taking him to court
for stalking and harassing her repeatedly.
She has an ex-husband who is taking her to court
for custody of their two children.
Somewhere in the mix of these two impending
court cases, Doctor Evil talks the veterinarian into
hiring a hitman to solve these two problems.
Get this. She freakin’ agrees to it.
Can you imagine?
What the hell was she thinking?
How could that evil SOB talk her into becoming
hellishly evil when she had always been
a good and caring citizen taking care of
and healing pets and animals?
They meet with the hitman, who as often is
the case, is an undercover cop.
They get arrested and get bailed.
Probably ashamed and wondering how
did she let herself get dragged down by that
evil SOB, she takes an elevator to the
top of a tall building and jumps off to her death.
I think to myself, if only she had stayed on
course with her initial assessment when the
red flags were flying all around her.
But sometimes love is stronger than
reason and many are those who make dire
or, at the least, foolish mistakes because of it.
This I know from experience.
Bob Boyd