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Saturday, 01. May 2010

It can't happen this time around, because this...

By mattiastsk, 22:01
It can't happen this time around, because this year Miss Eastlake's going to be far less capable of pitching inAt least the Mean Dogs are returners, known quantities, and so are the BaumgartensI like the Baumgartens "Either of them girls?" I asked, thinking about Elizabeth's prejudice concerning daughters and Duma"Nope, both the kind of boys who ought to have GOT IT MADE BUT DON'T HOLD IT AGAINST US stamped on their foreheadsThe people coming into the other four houses are all newI can hope that none of them will be the rock-and-roll-all-night, partyevery- day type, but what are the odds?" "Not good, but you can at least hope they left their Slipknot CDs home "Who's Slipknot? What's Slipknot?" "Wireman, you don't want to knowEspecially not while you're busy working yourself into a stateWireman is just explaining dior monogram bag February on Duma Key, muchachoI'm going to be fielding everything from emergency queries about what to do if one of the Baumgarten boys gets stung by a jellyfish to where Rita Mean Dog can get a fan for her grandmother, who they'll probably stash in the back bedroom again for a week or soYou think Miss Eastlake's getting on? I've seen Mexican mummies hauled through the streets of Guadalajara on the Day of the Dead who looked better than Gramma Mean DogShe's got two basic lines of conversationThere's the inquisitive line - 'Did you bring me a cookie?' - and the declarative - 'Get me a towel, Rita, I think that last fart had a lump in it'" I burst out laughingWireman scraped a sneaker through the shells, creating a smile with his footBeyond us, our shadows lay on Duma Key Road, which was paved and smooth and omega replica watches evenFarther south was a different story"The answer to the fan problem, should you care, is Dan's Fan CityIs that a great name, or what? And I'll tell you something: I actually like solving these problemsDefusing 341 little crisesI make folks a hell of a lot happier here on Duma Key than I ever did in court But you haven't lost the knack for leading people away from the things you don't want to discuss, I thought"Wireman, it would only take half an hour to get a physician to look into your eyes and tap your skull-" "You're wrong, muchacho," he said patiently"At this time of year it takes a minimum of two hours to get looked at in a roadside Doc-in-the-Box for a lousy strep throatWhen you add on an hour of travel time - more now, because it's Snowbird Season and none of them know where they're going - you're talking about dior replica handbags three daylight hours I just can't give upNot with appointments to see the air conditioning guy at 17the meter-reader at 27the cable guy right here, if he ever shows up He pointed to the next house down the road, which happened to be 39"Youngsters from Toledo are taking that one until March fifteenth, and they're paying an extra seven hundred bucks for something called Wi-Fi, which I don't even know what it is 342 "Wave of the future, that's what it isWave of the fatherraping, mother-stabbing future "Movie was 1969, I think," I said"Whenever it was, viva the wave of the motherraping, froggy-stabbing futureDoesn't change the fact that I'm busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contestYou know it's going to be more than a quick tap and peek with the old doctor-flashlightThat's just where it starts "But if d