The Backpacker<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\nArtist plays chess with white haired Doctor in penthouse apartment overlooking Ocean.<\/p>\n
\u201cDoc, I\u2019ve got this tenant who thinks he\u2019s Jesus Christ and won\u2019t pay rent; got any suggestions?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo what I did when I had an obnoxious, deadbeat, crackhead tenant.\u201d The auspicious looking spinal surgeon says to Artist while moving his Knight to put Artist\u2019s Queen in check on the marble chess board. \u201cAfter performing complex spine surgery, I washed up and left the hospital wearing a clean pair of surgical gloves.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Doctor tells Artist story in flashback as Artist plots his next moves on chessboard.<\/p>\n
No one notices Doctor as he walks to his Cadillac in the Emergency room parking lot and opens car door in fresh surgical gloves. \u201cI own a couple of low income tenement buildings in Baltimore, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.\u201d The Doctor says in voiceover as he drives through Baltimore to a run down building in ghetto. \u201cWhen my tenants get out of line, I kill them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Doctor parks car in dark alley next to filthy dumpster and exits vehicle as rats scurry away under his feet. He calmly walks through back entrance into dimly lit hallway that leads to stairwell consumed with graffiti under flickering lights. His expensive shoes crush German roaches as he climbs up seven flights of stairs without breaking a sweat. He exits enclosed stairwell and makes his way to apartment 702 where he knocks on the door with authority.<\/p>\n
Seconds pass before the Doctor sees an eyeball staring back at him through peephole and he hears multiple locks being undone before door opens to reveal a lanky drug addict who says, \u201cListen, I\u2019m sorry about the rent.\u201d<\/p>\n
Doctor grabs crackhead by the throat and lifts him off the ground, walking him straight back towards open window at the other end of filthy apartment saying, \u201cI\u2019m sure you are.\u201d, before pushing his tenant, with feet and arms flailing, out the window to his death. The Doctor looks out window to see his victim impaled on fire hydrant and smiles before calmly walking out of the apartment, locking the door behind him and making his way past elevator to stairwell, where he walks downstairs to his car and drives away as if nothing happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re kidding me, Doc.\u201d The Artist says while moving his pawn to protect his Queen from the Doctor. \u201cYou\u2019re suggesting I murder Crackheadjesus?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not suggesting anything, I\u2019m merely answering your question before putting you in checkmate.\u201d The Doctor says as he moves his Bishop between the Artists\u2019s King and Queen on the chessboard.<\/p>\n
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