Years at Ochter Tool, sniffed foreman until Charlie Ochter’s kid broke his femur in the Arena Football League and got handed the position.
Kurt Wynotka wiped his face.
There wasn’t silence, but a humming murmur.
There was liquid on his lips.
Dr.Pepper.
He liked Dr. Pepper.
A manager, seemed like a manager anyway, rushed toward him with a towel, blabbering apologies.
Years going to Scalamar’s, sitting on the same bar stool and cheating a second bar stool to him when he could get away with it, to support his 345 lbs, well distributed if a little doughy,over a 6’6” frame.
The theater manager had to see he was smiling, right? as Kurt wiped his face.
He almost didn’t go to Scalamar’s that night. An ingrown toenail was bugging him but it was Cheech’s birthday so…
Kurt Wynotka wanted to text Averill Flanson.
Averill walked into Scalamar’s that night, Cheech’s birthday, and asked him, a test house calibrator at a tool shop, if he would like to read for the role of Cerebrus Dosslack in the Fog Splinterers movie.
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