Tuesday - NYSTAGMUS

Two hours in a jail cell had never seemed like it could be a consequence tethered to Diet Coke addiction. Oliv couldn’t even twang her rubber band because they had taken it away from her when they checked her in. After a couple hours, the same cop who arrested her came to the jail cell and called her name. He led her through the jail facility to the front, and a man behind a window checked her out. The guy checking her out was an older gentleman, a little on edge, it seemed, nervous, and he even seemed to wink at her once. When she gave him a funny look, he told her hadn’t been flirting. It was an eye condition, an involuntary spasmodic motion of the eyeball called a nystagmus. Oliv took his word for it, but when she got her things and exited the police station, she found he had slipped a piece of paper in her purse with his number on it.