The yardman at my condo complex has been taking these drugs for years and he barely has any mind left.

Never mind that Mister Johnny hired a fulltime yardman a few months ago, name of John Willis.

They were paying their respect to whatever it was that made him be a doctor in the first place, when the odds were that he’d be a yardman all of his life.

The oddballs around her also lighten the mood: her hostile black housemaid; her dangerous, Byronic drug connection; and her wayward yardman.

Like a servant, a yardman, someone very low in the social order.