Chapter 9

First thing i did when i got off at Penn Station was go to the phone booth, I felt like giving someone a buzz. As soon as I was inside though, I couldn't think of anybody to call up. I thought of giving Jane Gallagher's mother a buzz, find out when Jane's vacation started and all, but then i didn't feel like it.
Came out and got a cab, I'm so absent-minded, I gave the driver my regular address, so when I asked if he would turn around he said when he got a chance. Then all of a sudden I thought of something. I asked the driver about the ducks in the lagoon right near Central Park South, I asked where they go in the winter when it all gets frozen over. He turned right araound and looked at me like I was a madman. I told him I was just wondering but i had no idea. I had put on my red hunting hat but took it off before i checked into the Edmont hotel.
They gave me a very crumby room but i was to depressed to care. I went over to the window, you'd be surprised what was going on on the other side of the hotel, I saw one guy with gray hair with just shorts on do something unbelieveable. He first put a suitcase on the bed, then took real women's clothes out and put them on. In the window above his I saw a man and a woman squirting water out of their mouths at each other, they took it in turns for gods sake. All the while they were in hysterics, it wasn't even that funny. Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are.
After smoking a couple of cigarettes I felt pretty horny I have to admit. Then I got this idea. I had a number of someone i met at a party, I found it in my wallet and gave her a buzz. She wasn't exactly a whore or anything, she just used to be a burlesque stripper or something. She finally picked up so I asked if she wanted to meet up, she said she couldn't because she needed her beauty sleep. She suggested sunday but i told her i couldn't make it. Boy, I really fouled that one up, I should've at least made it for cocktails or something.