At last Rock seemed to understand why one of the knobs on the middle of three drawers to his nightstand was missing. Apparently a worker once fell to the floor and needed to remove the knob to get up, perhaps as long ago as 2002, when Rock moved into this house.
Rock could see it from the worker's perspective. He was on his bedroom rug with his face aimed at the knob, which was still in place but with a horizontal crack on the drawer underneath it. When he laid his head down, Rock's face was pointed under the bed, where he noticed a framed painting leaned against an old fryer basket. Of course, Rock could see what the worker had done. Apparently in his fall, which also destroyed a nightstand lamp, he had not only loosened the knob but also knocked the painting from the wall.
Eventually Rock knew the damage was his responsibility and had occurred in the daylight no more than a few minutes ago, not thirteen years earlier. Severely hypoglycemic, Rock couldn't stand and considered crawling to the kitchen for nourishment.
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