{"id":1579,"date":"2008-02-10T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltdrivebetty.com\/wyzwmnsworld\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2010-09-29T18:27:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T01:27:27","slug":"chapter-43-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?p=1579","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 43"},"content":{"rendered":"

the sound: <\/strong><\/span>Bob Seger \u2013 Ramblin Gamblin Man<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Bob Seger \u2013 Lucifer<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Bob Seger \u2013 Travelling Man & Beautiful Loser<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Bob Seger \u2013 Night Moves<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Bob Seger \u2013 Old Time Rock n Roll<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Bob Seger \u2013 Wait for Me<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Bob Seger Against the Wind<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Bob Seger \u2013 We\u2019ve Got Tonight<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, <\/strong><\/span>Bob Seger \u2013 Turn the Page<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

I stood watching the ladies \u201ccap\u201d for a while, waiting for my toast. Eventually the process got boring to watch and I glanced up at the kitchen window. I wasn\u2019t surprised to see it covered\u2026but I was surprised to see that the cover was actually gun metal grey shutters made of actual metal that looked suspiciously \u2018armed forces\u2019ish.<\/p>\n

When the toast popped I turned to the counter as Rosie walked into the room.
\u201chey little girl\u2026bout time you got outta bed\u2026.how\u2019s the head\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cjust ducky\u201d I muttered \u201cwhat time o day are we?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cbout 9PM\u201d came the reply\u2026I\u2019d slept through the remainder of the day and well into the evening.<\/span>

\u201cwell then\u2026my clock\u2019s buggered\u201d I muttered<\/p>\n

Rosie smirked and suggested I meet her by the fire when I\u2019d finished my coffee. I stood there and watched her as all expression seemed to leach from her face and then she left the room. I was left wondering how she could be part of such a great \u2018family\u2019 and completely ignored the women sitting at the table?<\/p>\n

I glanced over as I ate my toast to find the women that had formerly been so relaxed and happy to seem completely closed and very studious as they continued to cap at a rate I\u2019d not seen previously.<\/p>\n

\u201ccuriouser and curiouser\u201d I thought.<\/p>\n

I finished my toast and coffee and headed to the door. On the way I discovered my jean jacket over the back of one of the couches so I stopped and grabbed at it looking for my smokes and lighter. I lit up as I stepped out the door to find that there was another huge bonfire and it seemed that there were twice as many people there as there\u2019d been the night before.<\/p>\n

As I approached the fire I saw what looked to be a rack on top of the fire and I could smell the unmistakable aroma of meat cooking. My stomach roiled.<\/p>\n

Upon closer examination I realized that the rack was indeed an old double bed spring and that there was a rather large amount of meat or carcasses on the rack\u2026actually what looked like dog carcasses.<\/p>\n

I swung away from the fire my gorge rising up into my mouth and met face to face with a man I\u2019d never seen before. <\/p>\n

\u201cHi, you must be baby\u201d he said just as I started to puke and he laughed and danced out of my way. \u201cnever been to a goat roast before?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cgoat? goat?\u201d I thought, thoroughly embarrassed at the mess I\u2019d made. \u201cwhy the hell would anyone roast a fucking goat?\u201d I asked as I kicked dirt over the mess my breakfast had made on the ground and wiped my mouth<\/p>\n

\u201cwell ya know that ragtop Cadillac that Robert had just finished having restored?\u201d he grinned. \u201cthe one we put the new cloth on yesterday?\u201d<\/p>\n

I nodded vaguely remembering. <\/p>\n

\u201cWell Robert got up this morning to discover that several of Rosie\u2019s pigmies had walked across while everyone was away a couple of the larger one\u2019s fell through completely destroying the new ragtop\u201d\u2026he chuckled \u201cso out came the chainsaw and it\u2019s goat for supper\u2026.I\u2019m Jamesie\u201d he finished.<\/p>\n

\u201chi, I think\u2026.chainsaw?….oh gawd….I think I\u2019m gonna be sick again\u201d<\/p>\n

Jamesie laughed and said \u201cya can\u2019t piss like a puppy if yer gonna run with the hounds little girl\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cwhat the fuck is that supposed to mean?\u201d I asked as I staggered to the big tree to lean on while I decided if the rest of my breakfast was gonna stay down.<\/p>\n

Jamesie just smiled and shook his head, then turned and walked away towards the fire, the strains of Bob Seger wailing in the background.<\/span>
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the sound: Bob Seger \u2013 Ramblin Gamblin Man, Bob Seger \u2013 Lucifer, Bob Seger \u2013 Travelling Man & Beautiful Loser, Bob Seger \u2013 Night Moves, Bob Seger \u2013 Old Time Rock n Roll, Bob Seger \u2013 Wait for Me, Bob … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4721,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions\/4721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}