My Story of a Madman

Several years ago, I went to visit my best friend Sharon, who lived across the street from the Mental Institution. I decided to walk to the convenient store to get some coffee and cokes, and maybe some munchies.

When I went in the store I headed straight to the cooler and got out a coke. A man walked up to me, grabbed my coke and flung it through the air. As he was doing this, he shouted, "THE DEVIL!" "THE DEVIL!"

I grabbed another coke out of the cooler, and he threw that one too, screaming even louder, "THE DEVIL!" "THE DEVIL!" I went to the cashier and told him, "This guy is bothering me." He yelled at the man, "Get out!" "I told you not to come in here again!" The man left, and I bought the cokes and some coffee.

I got back to Sharon's apartment complex, and started up the stairs. The next thing I knew, I was being punched in the back very hard. I halfway turned, and saw the guy from the store. I kept going up the stairs, and he kept punching me as he was screaming, "THE DEVIL!" "THE DEVIL!" I finally made it up the three flights of stairs, but when I got to the top, he grabbed me and started shaking the hell out me. Coffee was flying everywhere.

I ran to my friend's apartment and made it inside. He stood outside the door screaming while I told her what happened. She said, "Oh yeah, he does that all the time." "He lives at the Mental Institution, and they let him out on pass."

I couldn't believe it! How can they keep letting him out on pass, when he assaults everyone? It didn't make any sense to me. I consider myself to be a fairly compassionate person, but this guy could really hurt someone. In fact, my back has hurt ever since that happened.

A year ago, my Doctor told me that I have to give up caffeine. Which means I can't drink anymore cokes or eat any chocolate. He said it was causing me to get cysts in my breasts. I thought about that guy and realized why he kept screaming, "THE DEVIL!." He was talking about the caffeine. That's why he threw my cokes.

Isn't it strange how the mind works? He probably knew that caffeine was bad for you, and in his mind that equated to caffeine is evil. In his way, he was trying to help me.