When Is a Welfare Check Not a Welfare Check?
There are welfare checks and then there are welfare checks. Up until the police came to my door one evening I thought there was only one kind of welfare check. Let me start at the beginning. For over a week, I hadn't been feeling well; I had vertigo and couldn't stand up without keeling over and throwing up. It took a Herculean effort just to stay in bed without the room spinning all around me. Needless to say, I didn't answer the phone or talk to clients during that week. I simply couldn't. One night, toward the end of the first week, I heard my doorbell ringing accompanied by loud banging at my door. Then I heard a male voice yelling that it was the police and for me to open the door. Yeah, right. No one gets into my house without an appointment and without my knowing that person very well. I didn't want to take the risk of someone thinking I wasn't at home and trying to break into the house so I forced myself to get out of bed, holding onto furniture an...