The H-faucet complaint to Gately

texture · 11 Nov YDAU, Wed evening

• When: Wednesday 11 November YDAU, evening — during Gately's informal individual-resident interface moments after the Brookline Young People's AA meeting, up to about 2329h.
• What: McDade comes to Gately to lodge, sideways, framed as a favor to future newcomers, a complaint that the shower's H-faucet runs freezing — "the H-faucet in the shower that its H really stands for Holy Cow That's Cold." When Gately names the maneuver ("Are you saying in a sideways way there's some trouble with the water-temp in the head, McDade?"), McDade holds his line, then ribs Gately over his bowling shirt with a crack about his father: "nice shirt. My dad used to bowl, too, when he still had a thumb." (Where the father is, the text does not say.)