Lester's Notes
Chapter 2
JE owns them and I play with them
She makes oodles of money I make none
It had a busy and exhausting week. We had brought in six high dollar FTA's. We were down two men. Hal and Binkie were in the hospital recovering from surgery. Hal took a bullet to his leg and Binkie was hit in the shoulder. Bobby was exhausted staying in the hospital with them. I thought I would drop by and say hello. I had also picked up some 'adult' Magazines. Binkie would enjoy them and Hal would enjoy them after he stopped turning red.
Vince and Ram were outside in the hallway standing guard. There was a line of nurses and nurse's aids trying to get into the room. Vince and Ram looked at me and Vince gave me a look that meant just stand, wait and listen.
"Don't you have anything better to do! Don't you have jobs to do instead of bothering these patients! I want to see your supervisor now! Oh,you are here! Who is taking care of all the other patients? I want everyone cleared out of this room immediately!"
The nurses and aids ran out of the room and on their heels was none other than our beautiful Bombshell. Then she turned around narrowed her eyes and looked between Vince and Ram "I suppose you think this funny - and I see those smiles and smirks! What do you have in your hands? Let me see …You should be ashamed. Your friends are laying those beds suffering in pain and you two are out here collecting names and numbers. Give them to me! I'll take care of them for you!"
I winked at Vince "You're absolutely right Beautiful they are being thoughtless. I'll take them over and put them in the trash for you."
"Lester, I'm not a fool, if I did give them to you, you give them back after you shared them. Did you bring something for the boys (boys? They are both over 25 and stand over 6'4") what did you bring them? Oh! This is disgusting Lester!"
"But, Beautiful we only read the articles - we don't look at the pictures do we Ram?"
"Shut up Lester! I'm sure that line has never worked on your mothers and it sure as hell doesn't work with me."
I walked into the guy's room behind Beautiful. What a view especially if you are an ass man and I was. She went first to Binkie and kissed his cheek, telling how worried she was and she would be here for him during his recovery. Then she walked over to Hal and sat on his bed and touched his cheek with a kiss and put her hand on his arm.
Bobby, who was half asleep, jumped up when Hal's monitors started going off.
"Jesus Steph, are you trying to give Hal a stroke or heart attack"
"Bobby, all I did was kiss Hal's cheek!"
"That'll do it Bomber!"
I was standing thinking I wouldn't mind having Beautiful taking care of me in the hospital. Thinking of Beautiful in a nurse's uniform could start more than a few fantasies. Uh Oh! Think box scores, think um quick grocery list, Confession ahh…Grandma Mazur …yep that always works.
"When do you guys get discharged?"
"This afternoon under a tyrant Brown's care."
"Do you want me to bake you a pan of brownies?"
"No that's okay Ella has it covered."
"I don't mind really"
How did one tell the Beautiful Stephanie that her brownies were as hard as Concrete… and more than likely they would be burnt. If the control room saw her carrying in the pan of brownies we immediately pulled out the milk and wide mouth glasses so we could dunk them. It was the only way to eat them without wearing your teeth down to the gums. Beautiful, kindhearted, generous she is- a Baker she is not. But, not one of us would hurt her feelings. So we soak them and eat them.
On the way out of the hospital, Ram and Vince who had been relieved of duty had retrieved the phone numbers from the trash along with the magazines. Bobby, Steph and I discussed a night out for dancing and drinking.
Steph said she would call the girls and we would line up the guys for tomorrow night.
The next night I picked up Steph and we met up with Tank, Ram, Bobby, Cal, Zero, Manny and the rest of the group at the new bar Wahoo's. We found a couple of tables and put them together and ordered a round of Tequila Shots. I was surprised that Steph did a shot.
"Hey Little Girl you look beautiful tonight. That red dress is gonna start a riot here tonight."
"Thanks Tank! How do you like my boots?" She raises her leg to show off the slickest pair of black leather boots with 4" heels. All eyes at the table and most of the bar were focused on Steph's legs.
"Well, little girl if the tight red dress didn't do it the boots certainly will. Wanna dance little girl?"
"What about Lula?"
"She is busy talking to Connie"
"Well, then it is her loss" as she walked with Tank to the dance floor. Next thing I saw that Bobby had joined them dancing. I stood up to join them when I looked across the room at a beautiful woman. I started to walk toward her. She gave me a really large smile and wave and I waved back…
Lester's Note: Just because a beautiful woman waves at you and smiles be sure to glance behind you to make sure her 6'8" professional football player husband isn't standing behind you. Lesson learned -8 days in traction and Beautiful didn't show up once in a nurse's uniform but she did show up in halter tops and really short, short skirts. Funny how I kept dropping stuff off the bed...
A/N I forgot to include this yesterday…Thank you to all who read Nothing Is As It Seems To Be who encouraged me to expand the Lester notes that appeared at the end of some of the chapters. A special thank you to DyanSwan and Financebabe for all their encouragement and support.