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Authors: Beverly Machado
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years younger than he.
They both came out of their maternal grandmother’s house with a sulking look on their faces. Jimmy felt sorry for them. “Hi Grandpa” is all they said and after loading the car, came and sat in the back seat with him. In thirty minutes, they arrived in Freyshire, Minnesota. They were slowly inching their way to their rental. Both Jack and Jennie were watching very closely, heads moving from side to side to see it all.
“This is where we have to live?” Jack exclaimed with a disgusted voice.
“Yes, Jack, it will be just until I can find another job, and your mother, too. It won’t be so bad if we clean it up.” Neither of the children looked happy about that.
Susan with her expensive white pant suit, spiked heels, long, fake painted finger nails, hair looked like she just walked out of a beauty parlor, went in first and sized everything up. “I never thought in all of my life that I would wind up living in a dump like this. We can’t live in this rat infested place. You and the kids are going to have to clean it up before I bring any of my things in here. We will just have to stay in a motel until it is cleaned.”
So off they drove to the nearest discount store where they bought smoke bombs, rat traps and poison, plus all kinds of cleaning things. Again Jimmy pulled out his wallet and all was paid. Then it was to find a nice motel because Susan would not stay in a cheap one. Two rooms they had to get with a door that opened to join the two rooms together. Jimmy slept with Jack leaving Jennie a bed for herself. His cash was running low so he paid by check. Highway robbery in progress, he thought.
Of course they had to find a nice, expensive restaurant, for as Susan put it, they all needed a good steak dinner. He used his debit card for that.
The next day, while Susan slept late so she could get her beauty rest as she put it, the rest of them piled in Jimmy’s car and headed to see if they killed anything. They had gone back to the double-wide before renting the motel. They were surprised to find two large rats in the traps. They all worked, even the kids, although they complained the whole time. But at least they worked. It was shaping up. Jimmy even rented a power washer and what had looked like a dingy yellow trailer, turned out to be a brilliant white one. He rented it for twenty-four hours and only had it for three hours. JD saw him walking to the next trailer with it when he howled out to him. “Where are you going?”
“Why waste the money I spent to use this thing? I’m going to see if I can clean our neighbor’s homes.” He went to the next trailer and when a big burly man came to the door and looked him over, he had a quizzical look on his face.
“Hi, I am your new next door neighbor. My name is Jimmy, and you are?”
“Henry.” was his reply. “What are you up to?”
“Would it be alright if I use this power washer to clean your trailer?”
“What’s the matter with the way it looks? Ashamed to live by me?”
“No, that is not what I meant. I have the rest of this day to use this, so instead of letting it sit idle, I just thought I’d make use of it.”
“Have at it”, he said and closed the door in his face.
Jimmy cleaned it and went to the next trailer, then the next, introducing himself as he went along. It finally got too dark so he went back to his new home. They had it looking good and were ready to pick up Susan to see if she was ready to leave. As Jimmy thought, she wanted to spend another night and go to the same restaurant for another thick steak dinner that she felt her family needed. Jimmy would have been satisfied with a can of pork and beans; but off they went. The next day found him at the bank making a large withdrawal on his checking account. They finally got to their rental and unloaded everything. Of course, the rats were removed so Susan wouldn’t know about them. Dishes were put in the cabinets, curtains hung, covers thrown over
They both came out of their maternal grandmother’s house with a sulking look on their faces. Jimmy felt sorry for them. “Hi Grandpa” is all they said and after loading the car, came and sat in the back seat with him. In thirty minutes, they arrived in Freyshire, Minnesota. They were slowly inching their way to their rental. Both Jack and Jennie were watching very closely, heads moving from side to side to see it all.
“This is where we have to live?” Jack exclaimed with a disgusted voice.
“Yes, Jack, it will be just until I can find another job, and your mother, too. It won’t be so bad if we clean it up.” Neither of the children looked happy about that.
Susan with her expensive white pant suit, spiked heels, long, fake painted finger nails, hair looked like she just walked out of a beauty parlor, went in first and sized everything up. “I never thought in all of my life that I would wind up living in a dump like this. We can’t live in this rat infested place. You and the kids are going to have to clean it up before I bring any of my things in here. We will just have to stay in a motel until it is cleaned.”
So off they drove to the nearest discount store where they bought smoke bombs, rat traps and poison, plus all kinds of cleaning things. Again Jimmy pulled out his wallet and all was paid. Then it was to find a nice motel because Susan would not stay in a cheap one. Two rooms they had to get with a door that opened to join the two rooms together. Jimmy slept with Jack leaving Jennie a bed for herself. His cash was running low so he paid by check. Highway robbery in progress, he thought.
Of course they had to find a nice, expensive restaurant, for as Susan put it, they all needed a good steak dinner. He used his debit card for that.
The next day, while Susan slept late so she could get her beauty rest as she put it, the rest of them piled in Jimmy’s car and headed to see if they killed anything. They had gone back to the double-wide before renting the motel. They were surprised to find two large rats in the traps. They all worked, even the kids, although they complained the whole time. But at least they worked. It was shaping up. Jimmy even rented a power washer and what had looked like a dingy yellow trailer, turned out to be a brilliant white one. He rented it for twenty-four hours and only had it for three hours. JD saw him walking to the next trailer with it when he howled out to him. “Where are you going?”
“Why waste the money I spent to use this thing? I’m going to see if I can clean our neighbor’s homes.” He went to the next trailer and when a big burly man came to the door and looked him over, he had a quizzical look on his face.
“Hi, I am your new next door neighbor. My name is Jimmy, and you are?”
“Henry.” was his reply. “What are you up to?”
“Would it be alright if I use this power washer to clean your trailer?”
“What’s the matter with the way it looks? Ashamed to live by me?”
“No, that is not what I meant. I have the rest of this day to use this, so instead of letting it sit idle, I just thought I’d make use of it.”
“Have at it”, he said and closed the door in his face.
Jimmy cleaned it and went to the next trailer, then the next, introducing himself as he went along. It finally got too dark so he went back to his new home. They had it looking good and were ready to pick up Susan to see if she was ready to leave. As Jimmy thought, she wanted to spend another night and go to the same restaurant for another thick steak dinner that she felt her family needed. Jimmy would have been satisfied with a can of pork and beans; but off they went. The next day found him at the bank making a large withdrawal on his checking account. They finally got to their rental and unloaded everything. Of course, the rats were removed so Susan wouldn’t know about them. Dishes were put in the cabinets, curtains hung, covers thrown over
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