Bull Street

Growing up in South Carolina, I knew about Bull Street about the same time I knew about Mr. Dohickey. Bull Street was the location of the state mental hospital. Anybody acting strange ended up there. "Yep, they need to visit Bull Street", was heard often in my childhood. There were people in my social circle who actually went. There seemed to be a pattern to the trips. Usually a husband sent his wife on enough visits to Bull Street, that she eventually enjoyed housework, kids, and staying home all the time without giving the husband lip. Now remember my childhood was back in the day before Prozac and Cymbalta. I think the wives I knew had some shock treatments and those little lovely pills called Valium. I never visited Bull Street then or now. My psychiatric stays were in an antebellum home converted to a hospital in Charleston.That was over thirty years ago. I am not sure if there are psychiatric hospitals still on Bull Street in Columbia or in an antebullum home in Charleston. What I do know is simple. An ambulance with people in white coats needs to pull up to the South Carolina governer's mansion, and take Mark Sanford out in a straight jacket. Then the ambulance needs to head immediately to Bull Street. I know Mark is from Beaufort and that is close to Charleston. But Bull Street is right there in the capitol. I believe he needs immediate shock treatments to his penis. Then he needs heavy dosages of anti-psychotics. He is certainly out of touch with reality. Describing his affair as a "love story" and then telling that he had "other encounters" but intends to " fall back in love with his wife" are all good reasons for my prescibed therapy. After completing his stay at Bull Street, he can rehab at John Edward's Mansion. John needs some company.