第247页 Chapter 15 妨害行为

这通电话让谢伦娜觉得很没面子。“我本来还期望能跟他们这些‘低端人口’合作。”她搁下电话后说。她原本觉得“睁只眼闭只眼让阿琳留着”没什么大不了，谁知道现在连警察都扯进来了。那位女警官建议谢伦娜把新旧房客一起赶走，但谢伦娜决定先对阿琳开刀。她打给阿琳，隔着话筒拉高嗓门。“你们这些破事儿我真是受够了，”谢伦娜说，“去你妈的……现在是你欠我钱啊，怎么搞到好像你是这里的老大，凡事都要听你的。你的小孩没东西吃，是谁去教会搬了一大箱食物、牛奶跟有的没的给他们？你刚来的时候，是谁自掏腰包也没跟你收钱？而且你知道吗——喂？喂？”
The call had embarrassed Sherrena. “I’m steady trying to work with these low-quality people,” she said after hanging up. She had been content to “turn a blind eye to Arleen still being there,” but now the police were involved. The officer advised Sherrena to toss them both out. Sherrena decided to start with Arleen. She called her and began yelling into the phone. “I’m sick of the bullshit,” Sherrena said, “sick of this motherfucking shit….Tired of you throwing your fucking weight around when you’re the one who owes. When your kids didn’t have nothing to eat who was it that went to the church and got a big box of food, milk and stuff like that for them, when you first got there, who had spent her money and she didn’t ask for it back, and you know—hello? Hello?”