Abby, Two
Copyright© 2019 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 29
Home again, home again, jiggity jig.
Home again, home again, no fat pig.
Back ... yes, we’re back, Bathurst. Hello!
Janna did buy her franchise ... and didn’t fire her boss.
“He’s always been fair to his employees,” she said. “That said ... he has very little patience with lazy or ignorant employees. ‘Do your job and we’ll get along fine,’ he said. He’s said that at every employees meeting and it’s in the New Employees Handbook. People who work he keeps. I’ve been his assistant for almost two years.”
Alice said, “Abby ... we need to get to Brisbane before school starts.”
“Daddy?” Abby said.
“I don’t have time,” Dave said. “If you want to go ... go.”
“You mean ... out there with the lions, tigers and men? Daddy.” Can’t you hear the whine ... I can. (I put a lot of work into that whine ... and the look that goes with it. Pity ... he’s at the mine and can’t see it.)
“Yes,” he said.
Alice and I shared a fist pump and hi-five.
“Bye the way,” he said. “They both run. Well ... they did when I parked them at the Vault. It’s just they look like a shed fell on ‘em. I know they won’t pass inspection.”
Ooo ... I didn’t think about the ‘LAW’ ... Heck!
Daddy said... “Take the train ... ship ‘em home in a railcar.”
Shocked ... I am shocked ... Daddy ... wow Pops. “Alice?”
“I’m on the phone.”
“...”
“Yes.”
“...”
“Yes.”
“...”
“One hundred eighty five.”
“...”
“Yes.”
“...”
“Two.”
“...”
“Open return,” she said.
“...”
“We have to organize shipping,” she said.
“...”
“Two classic utes.”
“...”
“Bathurst”
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