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BILL CADY Word Count: 149,227 - At My Friend's Place

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Bill Cady, The Early Years … by Bill Cady 212<br />

a Louisville slugger in his right hand and tapped it in his other palm a few times to be<br />

sure the guy saw it.<br />

“You got the balls, Cady?” the green beret inquired.<br />

“I may be the only one who does,” George chuckled. He finished standing and<br />

started toward the back door. “C‟mon, guys. I want you to watch me wipe out this sissy<br />

in the green suit.” I got in step right behind our guys, wondering what the hell George<br />

had up our sleeve.<br />

A few other people were heading that way to see the no-ticket fistfight, but the<br />

barkeep turned „em around. I couldn‟t blame him. Why lose a paying customer to a fight<br />

where you‟re not even running an ad? „Sides, once some guy got outside, he might not<br />

come back in. Bad for business.<br />

When everyone was outside, I looked at our guys, George‟s and mine. I saw their<br />

expressions and realized it was only our code of honor that kept all five of „em from<br />

running to the car. We had six guys with varying abilities to street fight, all the way from<br />

super asskicker to barely more than a mama‟s boy.<br />

These other guys, unfortunately, were people our government spent a huge<br />

fortune on so they‟d know how to kill with their bare hands. I tallied up the list of<br />

numbers in my head and running for the hills came out way ahead of standing up for a<br />

friend. I guess that‟s why we have codes of honor. They explain why a guy will do the<br />

really stupid thing instead of covering his own ass as fast as possible.<br />

Everyone gathered in a semicircle about twenty feet from the back door. I knew,<br />

without even looking, the barkeep had called the cops. That meant we had at least five,<br />

probably not more than ten, minutes before the “crew in blue”, Lansing‟s finest, would<br />

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