{"id":7079,"date":"2010-12-10T21:36:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T05:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltdrivebetty.com\/wyzwmnsworld\/?page_id=7079"},"modified":"2010-12-10T21:36:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T05:36:30","slug":"chapter-29","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?page_id=7079","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 29"},"content":{"rendered":"

the sound: <\/strong>Deep Purple \u2013 Space Truckin<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Humble Pie \u2013 30 Days in the Hole<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Harry Nilsson – Coconut<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Vickie Lawrence \u2013 The Night The Lights Went Out in Georgia<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Helen Reddy \u2013 Delta Dawn<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Dobie Gray \u2013 Drift Away<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Grand Funk Railroad \u2013 We\u2019re an American Band<\/strong><\/a>, <\/strong>Dr John \u2013 Right Place, Wrong Time<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

To say that Mike and my dad didn\u2019t get along so well is kind of the king of the understatement. Mike was a big ole bad ass biker and my dad was a cop, their relationship was the definitive oil and water.<\/p>\n

It just wasn\u2019t pretty on a good day.<\/p>\n

My father couldn\u2019t see what I saw in Mike\u2026but mostly he couldn\u2019t really see me anymore either so it didn\u2019t bother me much….truly my dad and I didn\u2019t get along so well anymore, but that\u2019s another story. I knew Mike was right to call him though, if for nothing else than to have someone tell my mom.<\/p>\n

Mike told me that my dad was on his way over.<\/p>\n

What he didn\u2019t know is that my dad was duty chief that night, so he was working, and he brought along a probationary constable. It could have been to lord it over the kid cos that was the kind of guy my father was and it also could have been to have someone without an emotional investment driving but in the end it proved to be some kind of poor judgment.<\/p>\n

By the time my father and the kid cop get to the hospital, the boys have not only picked up the bike and taken it to the house\u2026but they\u2019ve picked up a couple of pizza\u2019s and a two-four of beer and are sitting in the emergency waiting room having a meal and waiting for news on me.<\/p>\n

So the father and the kid cop walk in to 20 er so bikers \u201chaving a party\u201d in the waiting room. My father stomps down the hallway with the kid cop trailing him. The kid cop is already nervous cos of the \u201cdegenerates in the waiting room\u201d so as he is coming towards my room he\u2019s already twitchy and fingering his service revolver’s grip.<\/p>\n

Mike is standing in my door way.<\/p>\n

I slip back into sleep.<\/p>\n

I wake up to the father and Mike arguing in the doorway. My father\u2019s face is almost purple he\u2019s so angry cos Mike won\u2019t let him in my room. My father is not used to hearing the word no and he sure as hell wasn\u2019t used to hearing it from someone he felt had no business telling him anything. I was, after all, his daughter, his property.<\/p>\n

Dad is 6 ft 3, Mike is 6 ft, dad weighs 200lbs and is carrying a gun, Mike weighs 250 but has the physique of a professional weight lifter\u2026the perfect \u201cv\u201d with great big shoulders and arms (that\u2019s where the Muscle Beach nickname came from). My father is big and dark and brooding, Mike is big redhead with a ruddy complexion and is currently flaming, almost “glow in the dark” red angry.<\/p>\n

I try to lift my head to tell Mike it\u2019s ok and just as I do so Mike decides he\u2019s had enough of my father and his attitude and he leans forward and tells my dad to \u201cstep the fuck off\u201d and by way of punctuation, finger punches my dad in the chest using all 5 fingers to push him away. My father staggers back, trips over his own size 14\u2019s and goes down on his ass, skidding a bit on the highly polished floor.<\/p>\n

From the vantage point of the kid cop, all he sees is a room fulla bikers, and one of them pushing his boss to the ground, he freaks and pulls his gun which he trains on Mike, thank goodness he has the presence of mind to not pull the trigger yet.<\/p>\n

The waiting room explodes into noise\u2026voices raised, furniture crashing and the kid cop\u2019s got sweat beading down his face and is waving his gun back and forth like a kid at a carnival mostly because he doesn\u2019t know who to shoot first I think.<\/p>\n

All this occurs just as my mother comes thru the sliding doors from the parking lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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