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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 300<br />

Goddamnit, isn‟t that what I was asking him to do? To leave me alone?<br />

Okay, it‟s now gone way the hell past being funny. Of course, I could‟ve pulled<br />

my own straight razor. If he didn‟t pass out from fear just seeing it, or from the expertise<br />

I used in handling it, I might even get a chance to kill this simpleton.<br />

For what? Annoying me? Like I‟m willing to go to prison for many, many years<br />

because this asshole annoyed me? I don‟t think so.<br />

However, I also wasn‟t gonna let him get away with it. Not only did I have a<br />

reputation to protect, this prick had really pissed me off by that point. I started his way<br />

and he was gonna begin talking again. Maybe he thought that‟s how the big boys do it.<br />

If so, he would always have the inalienable right of any and every good American to be<br />

as wrong and as stupid as he wanted to be.<br />

Where I come from, we don‟t talk about it. We just do it.<br />

So, I did. I raised my left hand, palm open, and got what I wanted.<br />

He looked at it. When he averted his eyes, my right hand, fully equipped with a<br />

longneck Stroh‟s, came whistling around from behind me. I crashed it against the side of<br />

the asshole‟s head and dropped him like a stone.<br />

Frenchy was looking the other way when it all took place, but spun around to take<br />

it all in. He was reaching for his riot stick as he asked what happened.<br />

I told him it was nothing. The kid‟s a little drunk and he dropped his beer, but<br />

we‟d be leaving in a minute, anyway. It was already after last call, and I had my<br />

customary four beers delivered in time.<br />

Two other guys helped me prop the shithead in a chair and we ignored him as we<br />

all finished our beer. I did take his switchblade as a souvenir. As we were going out the<br />

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