Chapter 14 Chapter Fourteen: Wang Qixiong, the Croissant

In the evening, I was sitting alone on the curb at the intersection of Dongdan Santiao and Dongdan North Street, smoking a cigarette called Jinqiao.I don't understand how Xiaohong and Xiaobai hold hands. The south of Dongdan Santiao, the north of Chang'an Avenue, from Dongdan North Street to Wangfujing Street, are all construction sites, a huge pit.This pit turned out to be Dongdan Vegetable Market, Children’s Theater, Rockery Park, many small vendors selling inferior handicrafts to outsiders and foreigners, and a compound said to be the Ministry of Railways.There is a tall and thin iron tower in the compound of the Ministry of Railways, which is much taller than Tiananmen Square. We have always wondered what it is for. If there are bad guys hiding on it, they will take a sniper rifle with a telescope and shoot at the leaders on Chang’an Avenue. Isn't convoy shooting very dangerous?A Xiali driver once pointed to this big hole and told me that Chen Xitong, the former secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, was resigned because of it.At that time, the Beijing Municipal Government was ruthless, saying that in addition to the caves where primitive people set fire to fuck, the Forbidden City of the Qing Dynasty, and foreign embassies, Beijing should also have some non-stupid architecture of its own country. Compared with Shanghai, it will not lose face.The driver also said that Jiang Zemin had hung up on Chen Xitong because of this matter, to the effect that if he wanted to sell Zhongnanhai next time, he should tell him in advance.Now that Chen Xitong has stepped down, relics of human activities in the Neolithic Age have been dug out of the pit, such as toilets, cemeteries, bathhouses, altars, and other buildings worthy of protection. The pit is still being dug without wavering.I imagine that Sima Qian, who had his penis chopped off two thousand years ago, must have interviewed a large number of Xiali drivers at the time when collecting information, asking whether Xiang Yu grabbed the poppy's waist-length hair and stabbed it from behind on the last night of the Battle of Gaixia. Do it seven times, whether you can't figure out whether you should hang your penis, drink human spittle, wash your eyes, and do Goujian. Do you suddenly remember that you used to be a long-haired poet when you were young, so you sang a tragic revolutionary romance that has been passed down through the ages on the spot? song.If it weren't for this, "Historical Records" would not be so strange, and big animals that drink too much often appear in the book.

On Dongdan North Street, there are many small boutiques with no brands. They all say that they are exporting to domestic sales. The styles are better than those in big shopping malls, and they are 80% cheaper than imported famous brands.I often see white-collar workers who feel that they have a temperament, holding an umbrella, walking from family to family, walking along the road, wearing an umbrella on rainy days, and wearing a parasol on non-rainy days, choosing clothes that match their temperament to make their temperament more intense. Xin Ning often forces me to guess with him, what kind of girls are the predecessors of these temperamental white-collar workers, who do they sleep with when they go home, and what is their greatest pursuit?I said, during military training, you wear a No. 1 hat, whose diameter is larger than a washbasin, and I wear a No. 4 hat, whose diameter is smaller than a mouthwash jar. There is no answer and it is impossible to judge whether it is correct or not.I suggested that he go to Xiaohong. Xiaohong wears a No. 2 hat, which is bigger in diameter than a urinal. No woman in the history of the military academy has ever worn a No. 1 hat.There are also some Hong Kong and Taiwan brand stores on the street, with large posters showing male and female stars wearing clothes of these brands, smiling silly and melancholy.These brands are usually changed every two or three years. When we retreated and cleared the place, standing in front of the window of our dormitory, we often saw the scenes of little girls rushing to buy, with red faces, white arms, and dark yellow sweat.Liu Qing said that Hong Kong and Taiwan are full of treacherous small businessmen.

There is no business and no adultery, but after a deep understanding, she feels that she is even more inhumane than the rich landowners in the mainland.These small businessmen never think about the long-term. They change brands in two or three years because of tax avoidance. After the brand changes, they find the same celebrities to take some photos.Near the east entrance of Dengshikou Street, there are many wedding photo studios. It is said that the photographers and makeup artists are from Hong Kong and Taiwan, expressing European charm. They all look the same, with the same makeup, the same hairstyle, the same clothes, the same composition, the same lighting, the same background, and the same photo frame. It is estimated that Xiaobai and Xiaohong, who dress up like this, blow their hair like this, and wear this kind of clothes, are also the same. It looks like this.When I was an intern in the obstetrics department of Renhe Hospital, I saw a room full of children who looked the same. I was worried that the parents would hug the wrong one. Looking at these wedding photos, I was worried that the groom might hug the bride wrong.There is a food store facing the east entrance of Dengshi. There is a stone beast at the door. It is my favorite, and I say hello every time I pass by.Just one, not a pair, I can't tell if it's a dog or a lion, because the neck and ears are gone before. I heard from a girl from Henan in the food store that it has been there since the Qing Dynasty. When Duan Qirui was in power, The face is gone.A little to the north of the east entrance of Dengshi, on Dongsi South Street, there is a big Chinese bookstore. It is sunny in summer, but there is no money to light a fire in winter. The clerk always wears sleeves.Looking at the thousands of years of written garbage, colorful, stained with dust, sweat, and hand oil, from the floor to the ceiling, standing in the middle of the room, and wanting to write something, I feel so angry, I want to add a chicken to my crotch Chicken.Sima Qian, who has lost his penis, must have a huge fire of hatred for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, or a fire of confusion about time, or a fire of greed for immortality, or a combination of the three.

Opposite the curb where I was sitting was the business department of a Bank of Communications.I know a salesperson named Wang Shixiong inside.The first time I saw him was at the security office of Renhe Hospital. Wang Shixiong was squatting next to the radiator. Director Gao of the security office shouted to him: "Don't shout, I will let you out." I saw Wang Shixiong's huge eyes, the pond Same, rippling in the middle of the room.Director Gao said that this person was a trafficker and suspected of stealing.When I saw Wang Shixiong again, I was in the Department of Respiratory Medicine, and I accompanied Professor Luo on his outpatient visits.Professor Luo is in his seventies. Every day before seven o'clock, he must go to the ward. He wears a white shirt under a snow-white coat, his snow-white hair is combed back neatly, and his tie is bright and full. "I have been used to it for so many years, no matter whether it is good or bad, it is difficult to change." Professor Luo said.All the senior officials who are addicted to smoking have used their lungs for more than 50 years, and even their chimneys are clogged, and they have to queue up to see Professor Luo for diagnosis and treatment.Professor Luo can only go to the public outpatient clinic once a week, so there are always crowds of people that afternoon.The valley in the middle of the mountain of patients and the sea of ​​patients is a table painted khaki, sitting on a patient who is being diagnosed, and two interns like me who are studying with me. At the bottom of the valley is Professor Luo.

Throughout the year, Professor Luo wears a snow-white coat with a white shirt and a bright and full tie.It’s okay in winter, but in summer, there is no air conditioner, the windows are open, and there is hot wind outside the house. The mountains and seas of patients around block all the outside air. The hovering valleys are full of gas that is close to the body temperature of patients in respiratory medicine. Listen carefully. Different patients have different sounds from the affected alveoli, bronchi, and trachea due to the location, year, and cause of the lesion.Professor Luo's sweat poured down his temples and neck into his white shirt, "I've been used to it for so many years, it's good, I'm good at it, I'm good at it." Liu Qing told me that at the Wangfu Hotel, which is 500 meters away from the Renhe Clinic Building, , It costs 90 yuan to wash a shirt like this, plus a 15% service charge, and Professor Luo's expert number is 10 yuan.Old Professor Luo asked carefully and looked slowly. In one afternoon, he only saw a dozen or so patients.I saw Wang Shixiong's huge eyes in the sea of ​​patients in the mountain of patients. The outpatient clinic is over, but he is still there.I asked him, aren't you an outcast? Why do you still come to the outpatient clinic?See how tight your number is, so you can adjust the price?

Wang Shixiong said, no, no, I originally registered for myself, tuberculosis, for a long time.After hanging up several times, I didn’t get the expert account. That night, I went there as early as the ticket dealer, and I arrived before twelve o’clock in the evening, standing with the ticket dealer.Later Director Gao brought someone over, and I didn't understand why I was flustered, so I ran away, but none of the real ticket dealers ran away. I looked at Director Gao and smiled.I have been running fast since I was a child, 100 meters in 12 seconds. If it weren't for tuberculosis, I would have entered the Beijing track and field team.I ran to the basement of your old building. There were forks and various pipes everywhere. I lost my way and was caught by the director.At that time, there were refrigerators and other things piled up around the corridor. Director Gao was wearing leather shoes. He twisted his foot while running.I asked Wang Shixiong why he didn't call his work unit.Wang Shixiong said that he is from the Bank of Communications. If the leader knows that he is suspected of being a thief, even if he is only a suspect, how can he get along again?I asked Wang Shixiong for an expert number from Professor Luo Lao. The third time I saw him, he was already admitted to the respiratory ward.

The fourth time I saw Wang Shixiong inexplicably was in the surgical ward. Ever since Magnolia gave birth to the problem of squeezing acne on my face, I fell in love with surgery. Whenever I think of removing a piece of bad or unnecessary tissue from a body, then the swelling disappears, the pain disappears, and the inflammation disappears. When the cancer was cured, I felt a huge and inexplicable excitement, which was even bigger and inexplicable than pulling the curtains tight, turning off the lights, and showing pornography. Hopu also likes surgery, especially those related to the upper body such as heart and breast.Hopu always pesters the typical patients in these specialties repeatedly. The chief resident doctor has done the ideological work well: "I hope you can cooperate with the teaching. Let me tell you, you can listen to your typical heart sounds, and you have to listen to them if you don't." Listen, it’s like donating blood. It’s an obligation. Donating blood is a citizen’s duty. Listening is the patient’s duty. Cool? Angiography will cool you down for half an hour. Why don’t you call? Don’t you? Teaching double duty. How can you be so selfish? Not thinking about future patients?"

A twenty-four-year-old girl came to the Department of Cardiac Surgery. She was good-looking, with a pink face, a typical face of rheumatic heart disease.The chief resident doctor said that her heart sounds were typical and could be heard clearly near the left breast.Hopu went there at least three times: "Can I hear your heartbeat?" "Haven't you heard?" "No." "Really do not have?" "Really not. Even if there was, it's not very impressive." "Ok." "Will you put the stethoscope on your breast for me?" "Come on by yourself, you're welcome, it's okay."

I saw Wang Shixiong for the fourth time on an extra bed in the extra-cardiac ward.During the ward rounds, the professor lifted his quilt, Wang Shixiong was naked on his lower body, and an empty plastic yogurt cup was covered over his penis.The professor opened the cup halfway, looked at it, and then covered it completely. He glanced at Wang Shixiong's table, a cup of black sesame paste for breakfast, "Your pubic hair is quite black, why do you still eat black sesame paste?" the professor asked. , without waiting for an answer, then walked forward to see the next patient.When I was left alone, Wang Shixiong was crying and said that the tuberculosis was quickly brought under control. Two days before he was discharged from the hospital, a patient said that he had circumcised the circumcision before he was hospitalized. Sexual ability, weight loss, this patient circumcised himself, and later his divorced wife remarried with him.Wang Shixiong begged the doctor hard, and finally did.The chief surgeon said that for one month after the operation, intercourse, reading pornographic books and films, and drinking aphrodisiacs are prohibited, otherwise it is easy to get infected after the operation, delaying wound healing at the slightest, and becoming Sima Qian at the worst.Wang Shixiong said that it was not his fault, but after the operation he kept having sex dreams, and his penis was stimulated unprecedentedly. All the pornographic books and pornographic films he had read before came to his dream continuously, for several weeks without a single day Pause, the penis inside the yogurt cup is swollen like an elephant's trunk and red like a carrot.The old head nurse, with three blue stripes on her hat, said seriously, "Wang Shixiong, if you continue to behave like this, you will have to have a penisectomy and you will have to change your name to Wang Qixiong."I think, the hero is reckless, and this old head nurse can actually see the characters of "Shi" and "Seven".

The difference between the words is that it is like a penis, and like my mother, they are all masters of language hidden in the folk. I sat on the curb at the intersection of Dongdan Santiao and Dongdan North Street, smoked the fifth Jinqiao cigarette, and started to smoke. I couldn't figure out the cause and effect of Xiaobai and Xiaohong. Every time after eating steamed stuffed buns, Xin Ning would discuss, saying: "I think Xiaohong will regret it. Xiaobai gave Xiaohong a secondary card of the credit card, which looks the same as an ordinary credit card. In other words, Xiaohong spends money , Xiaobai pays the bill. In this way, I think Xiaobai’s seven credit cards are more practical than Beast Brother’s seven liquids. But I think Xiaohong will still regret it. together."

"That's right." I echoed at the time, but didn't fully agree. Things haven't been going well lately. With little money, I ate with Xin Ni at the cheapest Sichuan snack bar on Dongdan Street, and replaced the beer with Erguotou, a big bottle of five yuan, which is very cheap and can make me faint.The proprietress, who escaped from marriage in Sichuan, has round breasts, a big face, and long legs. She said that her long-term goal is to beat McDonald's in her lifetime, and open twice as many branches as McDonald's in the world.The logo of her snack bar is two "O"s next to each other, which looks like two round breasts squeezed together from a distance.The value proposition of her snack bar is that ten yuan can feed two people, fifteen yuan can eat two people well, and twenty yuan can drink enough for two people.Xin Ni and I ate steamed stuffed buns, clinked glasses, drank white wine, and called Xiaohong. Two catties of steamed stuffed buns, one catty of Erguotou, twenty or thirty little reds.The proprietress asked, what is the relationship between Xiaohong and the two of you.Xin Ni said, Xiaohong is our goddess.I said, Xiaohong is our religion.The meat of the proprietress' buns should be spoiled or close to spoiled.Xin Ni ate it, and there was no problem at all. I did TOEFL mock tests, and I still kept the old habit of not shitting for two days.It was as if I ate a half-dead cat and came back to life in my stomach, meowing all the time.What to eat, what to drink, what to pull, if there is nothing to pull, try to pull out a digestive tract from bottom to top, from anus to esophagus.In the end, Senior Brother Wang saved me. He ordered two tubes of gentamicin injection from the emergency room, filed the joint with a grinding wheel, knocked off the glass cap, and poured it directly into my mouth. There is no need to watch pornographic movies.Xin Ni lent Li Jiajia's super powerful porn to a graduate student from Chongqing in the same laboratory, and he organized single fellows in Beijing to watch it in the laboratory that night.Twenty or so strong men from Chongqing ate in the cafeteria first, making the cafeteria seem more crowded than usual.I used a projector in the laboratory, and it hit the wall with a full 100 inches.Director Gao of the Security Department said, "It's too arrogant. Gathering a crowd to watch porn is so careless that I don't even close the curtains." The sun was setting and night was falling. From the street of Dongdan Santiao, the foreign woman on the wall looked like a full moon, very clear.Director Gao stood on the street watching the development of the plot while mobilizing manpower. When the show was basically over, there were twenty security guards around him. get.That graduate student was a man, and he didn't say that the porn was given by Xin Ni, but he insisted that he bought it on the street.Li Jiajia was the only one who troubled Xin Ning, and Li Jiajia forced Xin Ning to compensate her by asking for an identical version of the scallops, otherwise she would have to invite her to dinner. Sichuan, Guangdong, Shandong, Huaiyang, at least four major cuisines had to be eaten.Xin Ning did not dare to let the Demon Knife be bought in the United States, and comforted herself by saying that even if the Demon Knife was bought, it would not be convenient to send it over. It is more embarrassing for a girl to be caught with super porn at the customs than to be caught farting at a memorial service, so she had to ask Li Add guest.As a start, I recently invited Li Jiajia to eat boiled green fish from the Sichuan office.I was outside the Xiushui Market, and I bought porn from a simple-looking aunt holding a child. She took out two CDs. He insisted that it was porn, "We can't print "Meat Futon" or "When the Peach Is Ripe". If we are caught like that, we will go to jail." I gave it to Xin Ni and asked him to redeem himself from Li Jiajia, Xin Ni After trying the disc, she cried and said, "The aunt who sold you the disc is really down-to-earth. It's really Teresa Teng. When will you come back again? It's really an old revolutionary song. The first song is Return from Targeting." I got conjunctivitis again, which quickly spread from one eye to the other, and both eyes started to water.A person groped to go home by bus, sat listening to the radio for a while, but couldn't bear it anymore, and sat listening to TV for a while, really couldn't listen to it anymore.The eyes are definitely more important than the penis, and I sympathize with Helen Keller.If I had to choose between the two, I would rather be Sima Qian. During the week I was waiting for the conjunctivitis to heal on its own, Xiaohong had a long phone call.She asked me, are you blind?Does it hurt?Are you bothered?Is it better than yesterday?How did you get this disease?Serve it right, what did you see that you shouldn't see?Do you want to organize the masses to visit? I said: "Fortunately, you are still a medical student. Will you definitely get conjunctivitis when you watch porn? I have watched a lot of porn, but I am not satisfied. I always wonder if it is possible to combine porn and serious movies to create a more Real movies. In life, where there should be porn, there is porn in the movie. In life, where there should be pure love and pure spirit, there is no porn in the movie. It is full of porn, like a bun full of meat, without even a little onion. It's like watching the animal world, screaming and fighting for a while, it's not interesting." Xiaohong said: "People make pornographic videos not to show the essence of life, which is different from your pursuit." I asked, "How are you doing?" Xiaohong said: "It's okay, so-so." I asked, "How is Brother Beast?" Xiaohong said: "It should be okay, I haven't contacted for a while." I asked, "How is Xiaobai recently?" Xiaohong said: "It should be okay, you should ask him." I asked, "Is Brother Beast okay?" Xiaohong said: "Brother Shou is very good, very good, he is also good, he is better for me. Prague is beautiful, he said that I can go to play anytime." I asked, "Then why did you break up?" Xiaohong said: "Because he is very good, very good, and I still have others in my heart. I am sorry for him. I can be sorry for him for a year or two, but I can't be sorry for him for a lifetime." I asked, "Wouldn't that person in your heart be Xiaobai?" Xiaohong said: "No. For me, that person has that person's problem. I didn't occupy his first time, and he didn't immediately fall in love with me. I can't have all of him. Not all, not all. A perfect love that is a 100% union of soul and body is not what I want most." I asked, "Then Xiaobai is what you want?" Xiaohong said: "Yes. At least, I am what he wants, what he wants 100%, at least that's what he said, at least that's what he said now." I asked, "How did Xiaobai catch up with you?" Xiaohong said: "I really forgot. Well, he is very good to me." I asked, "What's a good way?" Xiaohong said: "I always give me presents, things that I can use. It doesn't have to be expensive. My parents give me money, and I have money to spend. Xiaobai puts so much thought into what I get, I'm very touched. He You know better than me that you are such a sleepy person. I like to eat croissants. He took a taxi to the Hilton Hotel at 6:30 in the morning to buy the first batch of croissants. Call me outside my dormitory at half past one to pick it up. Every day. It’s been almost half a year. I like to eat bamboo shoots, all kinds of spring bamboo shoots, good winter bamboo shoots, and asparagus. Zhou, Xiaobai always went. After buying it, I went to the Xueyuan Shanghai cuisine near the hospital, gave them money, let them process it, braised spring bamboo shoots in oil, pickled spring bamboo shoots, and packed them, and then called me, and told me not to go to the cafeteria to buy. It's time for dinner, let me eat in his room at noon or at night." I said: "Xiaobai is very serious, he is very serious to you." Xiaohong said: "Yes, I was frightened and moved. I broke up with Brother Beast, and we also broke up for a while. It was a little painful, or very painful. During the breakup, Brother Beast often came to the dormitory to look for me, saying Miss me. Brother Beast is my second favorite person, I feel sorry for him, he is very thin, even worse than before, wearing a windbreaker in the sandstorm, as thin as a yellow leaf. We often go to the rich businessman's bar at the entrance of Jinyu Alley. He knows that I have a lot of homework, so he finds a place closer to the school.He drank Guinness and I drank hot water.He wouldn't let the waiter take away the empty beer cans, let them pile up in front of him, his eyes buried behind them.He wants my hand, I give it to him, and let him hold it, often for a whole night.When he reached the point where the empty beer cans couldn’t fit on the small table, he paid the bill, and then sent me back to the dormitory. He held my hand in front of the iron gate of the dormitory courtyard. He wanted to hug me, but I refused.He held me up the iron gate and helped me turn it over.Then, he asked for my hand again, and I extended it to him, and he held it through the iron gate.Every time, I met Xiaobai in the building cave, his eyes were sharp, he didn't speak when he saw me, he walked with me to the dormitory on the fifth floor, and then disappeared.Once I went back at three o'clock, and he didn't speak. I got angry, and I hated people following me, so he hit his head on the refrigerator in the corridor, which was very loud.I felt distressed, I touched his head and asked him how long he had been waiting, he said five hours.I said, it's meaningless, I'm already going to break up with him, and I'm already spending time with him meaninglessly, so don't spend time waiting for me meaninglessly.He said it made sense, anyway, he couldn't do anything else, he didn't want to do anything, he just wanted to see me earlier, or hear what we talked about.I was angry again, and I said, whatever you want, just wait if you want.So he waits every time, every time. " I asked, "How did you pierce that layer of window paper? I just remember that we went to your house for dinner, and soon after that, he started to act." Xiaohong said: "Li Jiajia. There was a meeting of their overseas students, and Li Jiajia invited me. She pulled me to sit, and Xiaobai sat opposite me all the time, without saying a word. Li Jiajia said very directly, Xiaobai likes you very much, he wants to chase you, do you like him?" I asked, "What do your parents think?" Xiaohong said: "They don't like Brother Beast. They think they are not honest and knowledgeable. They should like you the most. After dinner that time, when you left, my mother said, Qiushui is so good, like a scholar in ancient times. He behaves similarly, doesn’t talk much, and is very polite. My dad said, yes, it’s so late, and he said to go back and read the book again, and his temperament is the same as when he was young.” I said: "That's my perfunctory. Your dad said, read the book again when you go back? I said, yes, read it again." Xiaohong said: "You are like that, very deceptive." I said, "Yeah, yeah, it's all because of this cruel society." Xiaohong paused, and said: "But I have said countless bad things about you before, and I put all my imagination about bad children on you. My parents, especially my mother, remember it very clearly. After you left , my mother repeatedly said that Qiushui is like a good boy, not the person you said. If the things you said were really done by him, he would be too deceptive. I said, those things were done by him, all by him. " I asked, "What did you say I did?" Xiaohong paused again, and said: "I also want to make a living, so I hope you understand. If I can't get it, I will cut it into pieces in my heart. I told my mother that what you do is basically true. Yes, but I added oil and vinegar, and I chose a slanderous statement. For example, I said, there are girls chasing you in your kindergarten, and at night, you stay at your house and never go back to sleep at your own home. I also said that you were hospitalized in primary school , about sexually harassing a female doctor, organizing the whole ward to tell dirty jokes about that female doctor. I also said that you were kissed by a girl in junior high school. If the teacher hadn’t arrived in time, you would have lost your body physically before the age of fifteen. But mentally, you have already lost your virginity. At that time, your eyes were straight. I also said that you had a crush on several people in high school. At first, these people were very good at studying, and they were all better than you. Later, their college entrance examination scores were not as high as yours. Those who were able to go to key universities went to ordinary universities, and those who could have gone to college ended up living on the streets and entering the nightclub of Heaven and Earth. Your classmates agree that you did it on purpose. Freshman military training, others receive re-education from the motherland, correct thinking, But you fell in love and corrupted the only party member of our medical university at that time, who was also our class monitor. At the same time, you still flirted with your first love in high school. Senior sisters above the third grade often drink alone at night, cuddling and hugging back to the dormitory, harassing junior senior sisters below the third grade, or guiding life, or pretending to be innocent, making several little girls think about it day and night, very perverted. I also said that recently He also hangs out with women in the society, and the relationship is ambiguous, unclear, and very obscene. My parents said that in comparison, Xiaobai is much more honest." I asked, "Are you familiar with this autumn water? Let me introduce you?" Xiaohong said, "I'm not familiar with it." I asked, "Is Xiaobai honest?" Xiaohong said: "Not honest, hands and feet are dishonest." I asked, "Dirty soon?" Xiaohong said, "Soon." I was sitting on the curb at the intersection of Dongdan Santiao and Dongdan North Street. I smoked the seventh Jinqiao cigarette and became dizzy.On the road, people come and go, and the cars are getting denser and denser, but it has nothing to do with me.This irrelevant feeling suddenly became extremely huge in an instant. I need to grow my tentacles to touch this fast-moving street and fight against this irrelevant feeling. Near the outpatient building, there was a postal kiosk. I gave the aunt inside fifty cents and called Liu Qing: "Sister, it's me. How are you?" "Fine. Where are you?" "I'm at the Dongdan Santiao intersection, on the curb." "You don't sound right. Just stand where you are and don't move. My sister will be there in fifteen minutes."