A short affair

I lasted in the program around three months, then I was tempted back to the city by a young women who claimed she needed me. She was 22 and very beautiful. I was influenced once again by her beauty, because she claimed a desire to be with me. I was a pretty easy mark in those days. A tremendous mistake by me was made again. We spent a nice week together and then she took a turn to another direction, which was not being with me. Men can be such suckers about women. When the rent ran out at the hotel room we rented, I went to see her at the room she rented at another hotel (there are many of these in North Beach) in North Beach. She told me I could stay a couple of days. I had arranged to get into a four-week program at the Palo Alto VA. She had this guy who had an infatuation with her. Another man fooled by this girl. She told him she did not want me in her room. So there I am sleeping and then I wake up listening to this guy telling my I should not be there and claiming she told him she did not want me there. This came as a big surprise to me and what was a bigger surprise was he was holding a knife to my throat. As he was telling me how she had told him I did not belong there and wanted me out. I shifted a little and managed to grab the knife from him and throw it away. I have always had great reflexes. Needless to say, this surprised him and now he felt threatened by me and started yelling about fearing for his life. The managers heard all the commotion and called the cops. A few minutes later a couple of San Francisco's finest came into the room.