The saintly mood lasts until I refill the milk glass on a tiny, scabrous old lady with wild white hair who looks like she’s been folded into her wheelchair and squished.

scabrous adj 1: (biology) rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf [syn: lepidote, leprose, scaly, scurfy] 2: dealing with salacious or indecent material – source: Nickel and Dimed, p. 66