French and I were talking about odd jobs recently. You know those brutal jobs you had as a teen. He had his little liquor raffle to avoid the rigors of work. Our friend Mean Dean had his own method as well.
We were at a huge field party once where Dean's job was revealed. The cops raided the party around 10:30 and we all had to bolt. Pancake and Sweaty took off in their cars; they each thought the other had picked up French and I. The two of us ran through the forest to a side road trying to avoid the police. We walked for about 20 minutes when a huge truck with a dented steel bumper pulled up. Dean was at the wheel and we jumped in and headed into town.
Dean said that he had a job to do on the way, but then we'd grab some beers and shoot some pool at his grandma's place (she had a beautiful table, at let us hang out if we "kept it down").
Dean pulled into a parking lot in an old steel factory. Dean said, "buckle-up". He reved it up and did a brake burn, a donut and then sided swiped an Oldsmobile. He said, "there that oughta do it".
I said, "what the hell was that?"
Dean replied: "That my friend was a hundred bucks".
Dean, on occasion, would take money to do little crashes to get back at bad bosses, cheating husbands and general bastards.
We headed off to see his grandma. French broke into Dirty Deeds by AC/DC.
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I used to know a version of Mean Dean. If you paid him, he would break into your car and fuck it up a bit so you could claim the insurance money. That, and a few other semi-criminal activities, proved quite profitable for him.
Hey, we all have our own moral economy.
By the way, that was some disputation within the comments thread of your last post. Sorta like Luther vs. Eck at Leipzig back in the day.
LOL, funny. Those days of reckless fun! Remember 'em well.
I like this guy. You got his cell? I have a couple jobs for him. Good post Olie.
Hello Ollie. Read 'em all down to here, enjoyed every one. Totally disagree with the perfect woman formula. Been there, done that. Hated her music. Have you seen Michael Douglas lately??
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