Sunday, January 18, 2015
The Sheik of Bradham Falls
(...and the Handful)
A carpenter. Thus the gossips re the women
he "nailed." In his own hammering mind, legend!
When Ida's turn came up, her father delighted,
knowing her toughness. And hoping they'd eventually
marry, since she ate like three longshoremen.
The Sheik never experience a handful like her. Too,
she took over his messy books, as she had for her
father's hardware store.
Soon, she was literally running both businesses.
They eloped to Vegas, she not wanting the "crap"
of a big wedding. Besides, he had no family.
Her father had predicted she’d start popping the
babies out and never stop.
But she did, after five. The year he had a stroke, and
her mother Alzheimered out totally.
Both presently at Bide-a-Bit. Dr Gretz see progress, but
then shakes his head.
Ida at the hardware store all day now. And weekends at
the branch in the new shopping center.
The Shiek's carpentry business has prospered too:
Enough employees to qualify for Obamacare. (Ida, of
course, handles all that also.)
He has a couple of sad-ass affairs somewhere in there,
which Ida disposes of expeditiously.
The children? They've been dragged up. So, half-wild.
Not likely to end up with psychologists because they love
the freedom, and support each other tenaciously.
The town sees the couple as characters. His romantic past--
more talk than prowess, but never mind--and her ballistic drive.
The gossips fatally conclude “Married to a woman like that enough
to kill two men!”
Just one. The New Sheik is gray and courtly, but as full of shit.
Labels: business, children, gossip, handful, hard work, Obamacare, powerful women, sheik
