Once is happenstance, twice is circumstance, the third time has to be your mother
Hidden Agendas
Mama Drama Week
(Continued from yesterday)
FIVE DATES SET UP BY HIS DATING SERVICE, five dates in which five trains crashed into school busses onto which planes fell from the sky. George wondered if he should let the remaining two weeks of his Dating Service expire. After all, they set up the dates. He merely dressed for the occasion.
How could anyone blame him?
His worst mistake was to go home with the five foot blonde in buckle shoes, baby doll dress, and innocent baby doll eyes. If the site didn’t require proof of ID, he’d have thought she was fifteen. Not too bright, and almost a child. Mother would have loved this one.
Until he drove her home to a militia compound. Just as the ATF arrived. “I wanted you to meet my father,” she apologized with her hands over her ears to block the noise from the firefight. “He’s big on the second amendment.”
George’s worst mistake was to go home with the five foot blonde in buckle shoes, baby doll dress, and innocent baby doll eyes. If the site didn’t require proof of ID, he’d have thought she was fifteen.
His mother let him spend the night in jail and bailed him out late the following afternoon. She told him he could pay the fine to release his car from impound. She wouldn’t look at him as she drove, but punctuated the drive by dropping a gob in her spittoon as he walked through the front door. “You’ll never find a girl who treats you better than me.” He’d never swear to it, but she looked happy.
On a hunch, he had a called a buddy who worked in IT to track down the owner of the dating site. His buddy called back the next day. “You’ll never believe this.”
George’s mother owned 51 percent of the shares.
Yes, he’d grown accustomed to mother’s ceaseless acts of sabotage, but it disturbed him when she set traps so he’d sabotage himself.
(To be continued…)
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Wry noir author Phillip T. Stephens wrote Cigerets, Guns & Beer, Raising Hell, the Indie Book Award winning Seeing Jesus, and the children’s book parody Furious George. Follow him at Phillip T Stephens.
