Hard Scrabble Joey

My daddy  once lost his job and when he came home, thew his lunch box on the kitchen table and said “Joey…” (I don’t know why he called me Joey, my name is Chainsaw), “I mean… Look, I’m not kidding, really…”

His conversation dwindled off…. “Yes Dad? What?” I asked.

He suddenly sprang to life and resumed his conversation. “Joey, a job’s about a lot more than a paycheck. I’s about a big paycheck. I’ve been seeing those commercials about truck driving schools.  Now that I have been fired, I was thinking you and I could move to Scranton and combine drivin’ a 17 or 18 wheeler with coal mining… that, or you go into politics”.

“Your a good guy, Joey. You give it some thought. You’ve never had a real job. Anything will help. Maybe you could marry a doctor or something. It’d be nice to have a doctor in the family.”

He continued, “C’mon man, let’s get back to that scrabble game from last night. You know them words with more than 4 tiles make things ‘hard scrabble’ for ya”.

 

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