Chapter 56

"And I was like... why are you so obsessed with me? "Sow Joseph, biting with a certain savagery the meat pudding on his plate. "And he said he was only fulfilling his role as a good neighbor and member of the neighborhood surveillance, but I still think he exaggerated in the matter of wanting to impose a fine on me because of my cat's ad*****n to going through trash cans. If everyone avoided putting food in the trash, that wouldn't happen. Am it my fault that my cat has a good sense of smell?”

"No, of course not," I answered in a humorous tone.

"So, since that day I've only had problems when I got home," he sighed, resting his fork against the plate. "Sometimes I ask to stay late here at the company just so I don't have to arrive so early and go through so much stress. I doubt there is any neighborhood more problematic than the one I live in.”

I had a muffled laugh.

"I can say with all the certainty of the world that I prefer to spend more time a