Lawrence Kutner who was played by Kal Penn (some of you might remember him best as Kumar in the Harold and Kumar series of movies) had committed suicide soon after Obama had taken office so that his actor could go and and work in the Obama administration. In what capacity it was, I have forgotten, but given the way Obama has lain down and allowed himself to be gang raped repeatedly by Tea Partiers and their ilk, it is no wonder that ol' Kal went back to making movies.
In order to get to Dr. Kutner, Cap and I had to travel back in time to find him.
And there he was: geekily outfitted in sneakers and a lab coat, his dark skin a temptation that beckoned to me; I approached.
He didn't say a word as I passed.
Was Lawrence Kutner afraid of women?
I turned and watched his white coated figure exit the hospital.
Determinedly, I turned around and caught up to him.
I touched his sleeve.
He turned and stopped walking, his eyes wide with surprise. "Can I help you? Are you the family?"
"The family?"
"Of the patient."
"What? Oh. Right. No. No. I'm," I dropped my eyes, "I'm Hilda."
"Hi Hilda, what can I do for you?" He failed to see my desire.
"Dr. Kutner," I began. Who knew that he had so little experience with women?
"Yes?"
"You work with Dr. House. I've long been an admirer."
"Oh. House's fan club. Did he cure you of something?"
"Uh, no." Dammit! This was not going well. So I went with this: "Would you like to have coffee with me? I find you absolutely charming."
His eyes widened with surprise-and then, pleasure. "Sure!" Then he frowned. "How do you know I'm charming?"
"I've seen you on tv," I wanted to say, but this would not register with him, as his reality was not mine, so I said, "I saw you out with House-and, I, I followed you and found out who you were."
"How do you know House?"
Dammit! "Um, well, you know, he's famous. He cured my cousin." Jesus! "I just happened to be out one day and saw him with you, " I dropped my eyes, "and uh, I thought you were cute."
"Really? Me?" He looked jazzed. "Wow. Okay, yeah, let's go have coffee," he seemed completely unfazed that I basically had just told him I was stalking him. "You are gorgeous!" He exclaimed.
"Thank you," I said.
We went to Starbucks(TM) and ordered coffee. Well, okay, I had green tea. It was lousy.
"So, do you live around here?"
"Yeah, my apartment is right around here."
"Could we go there?"
He was stunned. "Yeah!"
We took his car and drove to his place. He had a cornucopia of toys, most of them of the sci-fi persuasion and his bed was unmade.
"Nice place," I said. "A bit messy. Perhaps I could fix you up with Consuelo. She does a mean clean."
"What do you mean, messy?" His eyes narrowed.
"It's just, you know, I bit cluttered."
"Cluttered?!"
"Yeah."
At this point, he got rather pissy. And it became readily apparent that there was reason Lawrence Kutner was finding it rather difficult to get laid.
I was not going to put up with his attitude.
"Okay, well, I have to go," I said.
I left, radioed the Captain and he picked me up.
"How was it?" he said eagerly.
"It wasn't," I said. "There's a reason why Lawrence Kutner is single."
I remain,
Hilda Stinson