We definitely need a seventh emoji reaction choice of HOT!
Every American Dream, every Pursuit of Happiness, once had its very start!Finding a Way out of Branchwater.
"... She was on her own to get home from there ..." - such a young, pretty girl out in the big, wide world all alone. What could possibly happen!Singapore Changi Airport, Monday, 10:45 PM
Trixie sat gently weeping between two unemotional Marine guards. She wore the dress she’d had put on sixteen hours earlier for work this morning. In her one hand, she held her boarding pass and the luggage ticket. In her other hand were several pages of crumpled paper. Trixie had hurriedly packed all her things at her apartment under the watchful and impatient eyes of the guards. They then drove her to the airport, checked her one suitcase (with, in fact, everything she owned in the world), and entered the waiting area for her flight: Turkish Airlines, via Istanbul to Atlanta, 30 hours total. Then a three-hour layover and an almost two-hour flight to Evergreen, the county seat where Branchwater was located. That was as far as the State Department would pay to take her. She was on her own to get home from there.
Turkish Airlines, via Istanbul to Atlanta,
A lot could happen, since the US State Department prefers repatriating home a US citizen, with a US tax payer paid ticket, by a foreign airline!What could possibly happen!
I have some suspicions (censored)"... She was on her own to get home from there ..." - such a young, pretty girl out in the big, wide world all alone. What could possibly happen!
I doubt whether the incumbent prime minister would like to see such scenes in the airports of his country!I have some suspicions (censored)
I’m catching up on this thread today and just giggled my way through this episode, which is as entertaining as it is sad. Wonderful job of describing Clem and his impossibly jacked up pickup. Unfortunately there actually are plenty of Clem’s in America.Finding a Way out of Branchwater.
For her first date, Trixie decided to go for the crème de la crème and restrict her choice to the brightest, best-educated boys in town. This requirement severely limited the field since only two boys graduated with her class of ninety-eight. All the others had dropped out, many several years earlier.
The boy she chose, Clem, was an inch shorter than her and had a profoundly acne-pockmarked face but came from one of the better-off families in town. His father owned not just one bar but a second one that was the town's most popular strip joint. As a result, Clem had at his graduation a brand new pickup, jacked up on supersized tires, with about a dozen supplementary lights and enough chrome to cover an M1 Abrams tank (the vehicle all the boys really wanted to drive.)
Trixie put on her best makeup and clothes as she prepared for her first real (and only) date. She was just going to the door to head out when Clem pulled up in front of the "Resort" and leaned n his truck horn, holding it down until Trixie, painfully embarrassed, hurried down the mud path. Clem demonstrated his breeding by taking the effort to lean over and swing the passenger door open before settling back in his seat. Trixie was left to struggle climbing up the mountainous side and into the front bench seat with no help.
Once Trixie was in, she said, "Hello, Clem," very sweetly. The boy grunted something which might have been "Hello," and leaned over to give her a wet, open-mouthed kiss while squeezing a tit. Trixie squealed in surprise. Having gotten past the challenge of making an excellent first impression, Clem went back to the wheel and raised dirt trails while gunning the engine.
Ninety minutes later, Clem pulled the truck back in front of Bubba Jim's, in a perfectly executed four-wheel slide. The boy made no move to show affection or even gratitude after what he had enjoyed. He just sat impatiently as she kissed him on the cheek. Trixie opened the big door and swung her legs out.
Sitting impossibly high on massive tires and raised springs, the pickup seemed high enough to need a ladder to exit. She crawled awkwardly down the side and turned to go home. Clem leaned over and pulled the door shut, muttering some profanity about girls not having any fucking respect for a badass truck. As he pulled away, showering Trixie with a cloud of gravel, she trudged up the dirt path toward home with her knees pressed tightly together. She tried, as best she could, to straighten her mussed clothes, making a note that she'd have to replace the two buttons that Clem had torn off her best blouse in his impatience. She was not sure how she would repair the torn bra shoulder strap.
At least one good thing came of the date, Trixie ruefully thought in self-deprecation. She'd got her first job offer. Clem had promised her a prime position as a stripper in his dad's slimy dive.
"Unfortunately?" I take offense at that. Clem is modeled on me at that age when I was young and adventuresome and carefree!Unfortunately there actually are plenty of Clem’s in America.
The new woman, Sheilah Rogers, was young and energetic and determined to improve things for the deprived in her district.
Well, I suspect you’re saying that in jest, but I do take offense at every jacked up pickup I see. They are hardly limited to places like backcountry Alabama."Unfortunately?" I take offense at that. Clem is modeled on me at that age when I was young and adventuresome and carefree!
Oddly shaped … gerrymandered?Alabama's 2nd Congressional District, Represented by Sheilah Rogers:
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Note that Conecuh County is the part extending westward near the bottom. The County Seat, Evergreen, is on Interstate 65 between Montgomery and Mobile.
Leave Arkansas out of this!!!I’m catching up on this thread today and just giggled my way through this episode, which is as entertaining as it is sad. Wonderful job of describing Clem and his impossibly jacked up pickup. Unfortunately there actually are plenty of Clem’s in America.
I'm glad you asked that. I have been "too clever by half" as the British expression of disapproval goes. I have been mixing time and place. Those readers familiar with my Barbara in Singapore trilogy, especially the third part - https://www.cruxforums.com/xf/resou...ngapore-part-iii-by-praefectus-praetorio.816/ - have an idea of what's going on. But a newcomer may be justly confused.I'm assuming that "Bridgewater /Leaving Bridgewater ... are the beginnings of the Singapore airport returning to Bridgewater story. Does the entire story appear together for reading or down loading. I like the undertone of humor and the imagination of the bits appearing above. Thanks for any info.
Do you recognize Clem, Tree? Is he one of your forty-three first cousins byLeave Arkansas out of this!!!