Flintkote
Copyright© 2020 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 24
The incompetence of the politically connected has to be experienced to be believed. “My daddy has my back.”
The existence of a legislature passing laws that they are immune to is one of the reasons for the Princessapality. Junior was expected ... no ... required ... to obey the the laws she decreed. The child Junior carried, Wendolyn Wanzor Austin IV, couldn’t/wouldn’t believe she was no better than her subjects.
Mary stayed with me as I derigged (we call it struck ... as in take it down and put it away) the spinnaker and its constituent parts. When I started tearing down it was late evening. By the time I had it done and stowed away it was full dark.
“Okay ... here’s the skinny ... your watch ... Cynthia’s watch but freely given ... you should remember that... freely given means she can’t demand it back. She can ask but you don’t have to give it back ... oops ... sidetracked ... sorry.”
“You’re not, ya know,” she looked. “Sorry.”
“Nope ... Cynthia was the wrong person to possess a travel aide. You’re responsible.”
“I hate that word.”
“I know ... but you are and Cyn’s not.” “Okay ... squeeze the watch ... here and here ... yeah ... like that. Now it’s a map ... see? Turn the bezel to the right and the map gets closer ... to the left and the map gets farther away. Okay?”
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