Driving On the Rim (2010)
“I don’t think anyone doubted my skills or my commitment as a doctor, but I continued to demonstrate social deficiency and poor judgment. I guess I wasn’t quite ready for rules-and-regulations just yet. Twice one week, I had gone out to the reserved parking lot to see an almost familiar figure standing there irresolutely, not looking my way, not occupied with anything, but somehow giving the impression that I was why she was there. I was startled by a voice at my window. “I wonder if I could tro...uble you for a ride. My sister left without me.” I turned to face a young woman, attractive but for the anomaly of penciled-in eyebrows, unusual on someone this age. There was a familiarity about the way she grasped the window of my car. I would have known her if she’d worked at the clinic. Her pleasant smile playfully suggested that she saw right through me, promising preliminary banter, something I noticed once she was in the car and I could see her tanned, shapely arms. She wore bib-front overalls and a T-shirt that said, DO NOT RESUSCITATE.MoreLess
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