{"id":7157,"date":"2010-12-15T15:49:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T23:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltdrivebetty.com\/wyzwmnsworld\/?page_id=7157"},"modified":"2010-12-15T15:49:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T23:49:40","slug":"chapter-49","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?page_id=7157","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 49"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>the sound: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tXaZmY52gHM\"><strong>AC\/DC \u2013 Back in Black<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xtXN_EHPwSg\"><strong>Guns n Roses \u2013 Welcome to the Jungle<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hmdKJWoTLPs&amp;feature=related\"><strong>Nazereth &#8211; Razamanaz<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a1sf2CzEq0w\"><strong>Golden Earing \u2013 Twilight Zone<\/strong><\/a><strong>, <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_Ku2rMVVXtI\"><strong>Three Dog Night &#8211; One<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like  I said, the rest is kinda anticlimactic.  We waited about an hour, er  until I stopped being shocked, appalled and\/or frightened and got back  to the business of being raving mad.<\/p>\n<p>During that period of time, I stood by the broken window and watched the \u201cFrankie and Bennie follies\u201d in the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>First  they argued, then they fought, then they argued some more, it was very  seriously like watching what you would assume people looked like in an  asylum when ungoverned.  Eventually they stopped rolling around in the  dirt like children and got into the car and drove off.<\/p>\n<p>As they  drove out of the parking lot I climbed up on the wall of plywood boxes  holding all the liquor and from there kicked the slats off of the broken  window.   I was out the window and around the hotel to the front office  and calling the police before anyone could catch up to me.<\/p>\n<p>I  then went back into the bar and unlocked the door and let everyone out  (taking the time to rescue my own personal bottle of tequila in the  process) By the time the police got there I had consumed more liquor  than I ever had in one sitting, but I was stone cold sober cos I was  mad.<\/p>\n<p>The police took statements from everyone present and as I  sat up against the wall watching and listening I came to realize that  every single one of the people there had known prior to the event.  Even  Big Jack who\u2019d got his face kicked had known what was to transpire.  Every single one of them but me had been told.<\/p>\n<p>And every single one of them was lying to the police.<\/p>\n<p>Not  one person that was there described Frankie or Bennie, or named them,  or even remotely suggested that there might be some kind of a tie in  between the manager and his sons and what had gone on that evening.<\/p>\n<p>Round  about 5 AM when we all had finished with the police and headed to one  of the barmaid\u2019s homes nearby, I was sitting at her formal cherry wood  dining room table on a full, but still quiet burn when the call came in  that Amelia, the front desk clerk had lost her baby.<\/p>\n<p>I got up and  walked out the front door.  I walked to the end of the driveway and  started up the road heading towards my home.  I was about a mile down  the road before the tears started. But once they did, I knew what I had  to do.<\/p>\n<p>By the time I got home I knew 2 things, I was done with  playing the game that Do-All had set up for the hotel and as such I was  oh so done with dealing with the \u201cFrankie and Bennie follies\u201d but mostly  I knew that Amelia didn\u2019t deserve what had happened to her and her  little family that night. That Amelia losing a child she and her husband  had hoped and prayed for during their 8 year marriage was gonna be  where I drew the moral line.<\/p>\n<p>I  picked up the phone and called the one person who could hold them  accountable where I couldn&#8217;t&#8230;.one person I hadn&#8217;t spoken too in years.<\/p>\n<p>I called my father the cop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the sound: AC\/DC \u2013 Back in Black, Guns n Roses \u2013 Welcome to the Jungle, Nazereth &#8211; Razamanaz, Golden Earing \u2013 Twilight Zone, Three Dog Night &#8211; One Like I said, the rest is kinda anticlimactic. 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