Tapped

“But it’ll be the new millennium by then!” I sat up, my pitch also rising. “I have to go see her now! If not now, then tomorrow!”

“There’s nothing special about the year 2000. It’s just another year, like any other.” The doctor grimaced. “Are you sure that you would even recognize her if you saw her? I just saw you mistake a total stranger for her.”

Understanding by the impossibility of explaining away that scene, I huffed in emasculated vexation. “You have no right to keep me here! I demand a discharge immediately!”