His boyfriend François walked out on him. He’s saying he’s going to sell the hotel and either go away or kill himself. He says the hotel will be demolished and turned into condo units, or else it’ll become a brothel and crackhouse. He followed me all day today, talking nonstop about François. He says it was all because of a fight over baked potatoes, because he was too lazy to go out and buy tin foil. He was saying potatoes are just as good without tin foil, and François was saying you need tin foil to keep in the moisture. Étienne and I tried to tell him that no one dumps you after 12 years just because of potatoes, but he said we don’t know François, and if he’d only gone out and bought the tin foil, François wouldn’t have left. I was worried at first, but Étienne said it’s not the first time they’ve had a breakup, and each time it happens Karl says he’s going to close the hotel, but he won’t do it because he’s making too much money on it. Anyhow, there’s going to be a morale-boosting party for Karl on Saturday.
