Otto's Night Watch: 'Day of the Magnolia Blossom' ... Flashback Friday

Home cooking sounded real good to me and so I stayed. The beach at Lake Pontchartrain was only a few blocks away and I did plenty of swimming. And then, one evening, when all of us were working late, Speedy Smith asked me a question.

“Tell me,” he said, “when was I really crazy? When I stepped on the magnolia blossom? Or when I was washing the dog?”