Then she told she can not date due to her son. And her son gets nuts if she hires a sitter. So she is basically tied to the house and him for the rest... of her life. Then she ask if I could come in the house when I got her home. She needed to get me some cash for the trip. When we got there she put her son in the bed room and gave him a snack. She put on the TV and closed the door. Then she ask me if I would mind just giving her a toss in the bed before I left. Its had been nearly three years and. "Here it is," she said, holding my own crudely computer-generated document at me. "Are you sure this is the only way to pay this tax?" Not at all, ma'am," I said. "If you'll just look under subparagraph B, Section 2, codicil XVIII, you will see that a cashier's check for $6,313 may be remitted--" I don't got no six thousand dollars lyin' around," she snorted derisively."Well, that only leaves one alternative," I said. "Is your husband around?" Nah, he's at work at the bottling plant," she said.. Ditto the use of Brylcreem, for heaven’s sake don’t dress as if you’re headed down to the Mecca Dancehall to see how quickly you can pull a bird, because that’s not what they’re interested in.”That last little speech earned him a laugh from us all, as he probably knew it would, and lightened the mood no end.“Any questions?”He’d pretty much covered everything; the only important part that he’d missed was exactly how we could get our CVs typed up to these high standards – very few of us had. It opens at 10, right?" Yes, yes, of course. 9:15 would be perfect." Her relief was almost palpable. And yet... there seemed to be a little disappointment as well. Hmmm.I gave a cheery wave as the door opened. "Good night!" Good night. And thank you." She gave a little half smile. Yes!And I turned and made my way to my car and then home.A Renaissance Faire. That's what we were going to. Something I knew absolutely, positively nothing about. Oh, I'd heard of them, and a couple of my buddies and.
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