Tyche
Copyright© 2020 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 61
Alice was full of information so I let her talk ... Let? I tried ... but ... I gave up, So, Naomi learned all about turning over a cat ... and why they fly when the wind is high. She learned that the sunk one eighty was buoyant when the 25 tons of deadweight was removed.
We learned that the school pool was where the boys are ... unless they’re out west at the lakes. April learned that Flintkote Industries worked a lot of truck gardens and hired Mexicans ... and Naomi was a second generation American.
A Truck Garden: vegetables by the truck load for sale to green grocers. Second Generation American: Grandparents who may or may not be illegal.
Evidently I’m an enabler. All that land I bought in the Twenties needed growers, irrigators and harvesters. My managers weren’t fussy about where the growers, irrigators and harvesters came from.
Listening to Naomi, I was beginning to see my employees were abusing my employees.
Auntie Mom not only hired illegals ... she swiped them from ICE ... and paid her illegals well enough that they bought the business. Instead of being deported ... they were business people ... and well respected in all of west Michigan. I expect Maria Braganza will be Mayor of Pentwater ... eventually ... and maybe congresswoman ... or whatever the Princess calls them. Maria Braganza knows organization.
I learned a lot from Naomi. My mind list required me to look in to the manner of which my managers managed. I needed lawyers and enforcement ... law enforcement.
The 9 o’clock rush started and Naomi had to go back to work.
Well ... today didn’t sound like much fun. We couldn’t go to the Uni pool ... we were already there testing. We couldn’t ride the 18 bus. We couldn’t go home ... We couldn’t go to Bud ... we were testing.
“We need a car,” I said. “A pretty good car. No rentals.”
“Generally,” Alice said. “Can’t rent a car until you are 25 ... no matter how many credit cards you have.”
“Bye, Naomi.”
She waved.
Up against the wall by the entrance was a bunch of free magazine racks ... mostly Real-estate offerings. But ... Auto Trader had a rack in with them. It was huge. So ... back inside, another round of coffee and two copies of the car rag.
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