{"product_id":"wrongevent","title":"Wrong Event","description":"\u003cp\u003eHalf of crisis work is figuring out what's actually happening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI worked crisis in Sagebrush City, a desert city in the Southwest. What was actually happening was rarely what anybody expected, including me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe names have been changed, and so have a lot of the details, to protect everyone, including me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheo was always dressed for the wrong event. A Hawaiian shirt and sandals to court. A three-piece suit and a pocket square to ask about a utility bill. Nobody ever asked Theo why. We just watched. In court, Theo behaved perfectly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe sent Darone to Community Outreach for a food box. He found one employee trying to unload a delivery van while answering questions from a full waiting room, so Darone helped unload the van.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree days later he was still there, helping. Before long, other clients would only go to Community Outreach on the days Darone worked. He lasted almost a year, longer than several actual employees.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe did get the food box eventually. He just couldn't remember when.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDelroy walked out on Shanice and their three kids and left no forwarding address. Years later he came back for his daughter's graduation. Sober three years and eight months, clothes that fit, a maintenance job at an apartment complex.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe didn't ask anybody to tell him he'd done right. He said he did wrong. Tallulah, one of our clients, asked whether he'd do it again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"If everything was exactly the same? Yes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe man we'd spent years trying to stabilize had stabilized by walking away from every person who had a right to expect him to stay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWrong Event\u003c\/strong\u003e is one of ten Sagebrush City books. Read them in any order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEbook (epub), delivered right after purchase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIncluded free:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jukebox, a short bonus Sagebrush City book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reality Services Office","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54152586428600,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/4459\/2824\/files\/Wrong_Event_1500x1200T.png?v=1790882451","url":"https:\/\/realityservicesoffice.com\/products\/wrongevent","provider":"Reality Services Office","version":"1.0","type":"link"}