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Faizan
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The Bus
Continuation...
Every year Lee had given Jay, and one of his other workers, John, and their wives a vacation, paid in full, hotel, food and even transportation. And it always astounded him that he could afford to do it, but it didn't' phase, or amaze Jay and John's family, they acted as if it was overdue. They belittled, yet accepted Lee's heartfelt gifts with unimportance. Matter of fact, after such a weekend, one could hardly tell it had been given at all. And both having access to the supplies Lee had in his garage, for his six apartment buildings, very little got fixed, but those supplies dwindled faster than John could make up the receipts. John had indirectly admitted the thievery, and Lee had told him, he had always known, expected it, but it was getting to the point¸ too expensive. Thus John left the company, and when he wished to be rehired, it was on different terms, and the rehiring never took place; for Lee surely an escape from the devil's helper. For he too interfered with the family progress. One might even go as far as saying, to see that nothing had changed, and even played double-spy, giving Lee, advice on Jay and JL swopping partners: true or false who's to say, Lee gave him a last glance, who was quite overcome by his remarks. Well it turns out, Jay's friend John, was not all that loyal, even though Jay let him live with him and his wife for months on end. But Jay still had an in, he was married to JL, the boss' daughter.
Thought Lee, during these years, what odd behavior, to take from your own, but evidently, now gone for nine years, and back, I guess-so he figured- 'I was never part of that so called own... ' which was a clan made up of his family members, none on his daughter's, side were allowed in. So it was becoming clearer by the hour, to his mind, this was a useless journey, what was the good of it?
Breathless he stood looking about for a cab. Although this conservative city cabs never picked up fares, you had to call them. But once in a while an empty cab that just dropped off a customer would take you. He was also coming to the point, of not having much inclination to pursue the task he came for, or one of the main tasks he had expected to do. Trying to put back a disconnected family, was trying enough. Should they take a moment to look about, would not his sons and daughter see the comparison? True, but the pain would gradually grow, and who likes eating rotting apples. For them it was better covered with soft dust, as not to trouble them.
And so, this part, his family part, Jay and JL's part, was the useless part of this journey? So he held. Or it would seem so. "Little could they have achieved on their own, those first years, those unremembered years; and once on their own, and once having gotten what they wanted, they went to the father that gave them the cigarette butts. Doesn't that beat all?"
VI
Marge
(Guesthouse II)
"A bandaged man sees nothing until the bandage is removed," said Marge to Lee, having met each other at the Guesthouse once again, for schnitzel. It was in the evening after having his little run-in with the student on the bus.
"Yes," said Lee "with that family Jay stands pathetically alone. And as you can notice I have very little reverence for that side of my daughter's husband's primitiveness." Now he caught himself mimicking that young student. "Yet I never dissuade my daughter or tried to weaken her reverence for them-quite the opposite on their behalf."
The Bus
Continuation...
Every year Lee had given Jay, and one of his other workers, John, and their wives a vacation, paid in full, hotel, food and even transportation. And it always astounded him that he could afford to do it, but it didn't' phase, or amaze Jay and John's family, they acted as if it was overdue. They belittled, yet accepted Lee's heartfelt gifts with unimportance. Matter of fact, after such a weekend, one could hardly tell it had been given at all. And both having access to the supplies Lee had in his garage, for his six apartment buildings, very little got fixed, but those supplies dwindled faster than John could make up the receipts. John had indirectly admitted the thievery, and Lee had told him, he had always known, expected it, but it was getting to the point¸ too expensive. Thus John left the company, and when he wished to be rehired, it was on different terms, and the rehiring never took place; for Lee surely an escape from the devil's helper. For he too interfered with the family progress. One might even go as far as saying, to see that nothing had changed, and even played double-spy, giving Lee, advice on Jay and JL swopping partners: true or false who's to say, Lee gave him a last glance, who was quite overcome by his remarks. Well it turns out, Jay's friend John, was not all that loyal, even though Jay let him live with him and his wife for months on end. But Jay still had an in, he was married to JL, the boss' daughter.
Thought Lee, during these years, what odd behavior, to take from your own, but evidently, now gone for nine years, and back, I guess-so he figured- 'I was never part of that so called own... ' which was a clan made up of his family members, none on his daughter's, side were allowed in. So it was becoming clearer by the hour, to his mind, this was a useless journey, what was the good of it?
Breathless he stood looking about for a cab. Although this conservative city cabs never picked up fares, you had to call them. But once in a while an empty cab that just dropped off a customer would take you. He was also coming to the point, of not having much inclination to pursue the task he came for, or one of the main tasks he had expected to do. Trying to put back a disconnected family, was trying enough. Should they take a moment to look about, would not his sons and daughter see the comparison? True, but the pain would gradually grow, and who likes eating rotting apples. For them it was better covered with soft dust, as not to trouble them.
And so, this part, his family part, Jay and JL's part, was the useless part of this journey? So he held. Or it would seem so. "Little could they have achieved on their own, those first years, those unremembered years; and once on their own, and once having gotten what they wanted, they went to the father that gave them the cigarette butts. Doesn't that beat all?"
VI
Marge
(Guesthouse II)
"A bandaged man sees nothing until the bandage is removed," said Marge to Lee, having met each other at the Guesthouse once again, for schnitzel. It was in the evening after having his little run-in with the student on the bus.
"Yes," said Lee "with that family Jay stands pathetically alone. And as you can notice I have very little reverence for that side of my daughter's husband's primitiveness." Now he caught himself mimicking that young student. "Yet I never dissuade my daughter or tried to weaken her reverence for them-quite the opposite on their behalf."
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