A Life in the Day of Rosemary Booker - The Woody Back to School ...

13
A Prurient Interest
Lisa Sutton sets the tray down and starts
stacking the cups next to the large tureen containing
the soup of the day. According to the menu board
Cassie Cassy has prepared a rich mushroom soup,
which is one of her specialties. It is also one of my
favorites so I reach over and grab a cup.
I shoot Lisa a sympathetic smile as I remove
the lid of the tureen and ladle some of the delicious
soup into the cup and place it on my tray. Lisa
responds with a weak grimace.
“So how was it?” Nix asks cheerily.
Lisa scowls. “I hate that fucking spatula,” she
growls and squirms her way back into the kitchen.
Nixdown and I hit the salad bar and then take
our trays and find ourselves a window table.
Nicola Jane smiles. “You know, Dotty has never
found the need to spank me,” she says smugly. “But
she has been kind enough to lend Pen the spatula on
a couple of occasions and I found the effects to be
quite delightful.”