The violation that followed hardly called for it, but whenever he came over for one of his "little chats," he always did the courtesy of knocking on my bedroom door before he opened it.
Even now, decades later, I can't help but feel the same rapid heartbeat and lump in my throat when the sign on my apartment door asking package deliverers and Girl Scout cookie mongers to please, please only use the doorbell gets instinctually ignored.
He kept making his way out of the tunnel and finally made came through to the other end. Elroy heard a woman utter, “Uh no thanks, he’ll have no vaccines!”