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“I…I don’t know if that’s a good idea,” I said, still totally thrown off by the past few minutes

“Jaebob ja around the streets of San Francisco Would you please, please, please come back inside and let me explain all this shit to you?” And then she whirled toward an older awk at us, and growled, hands on her hips, “Move along, pooper scooper, or else I’ to shove that poodle so far up your ass that you’ll be shitting puffballs for a month”

A slightly hysterical burst of laughter escaped me, and the man flushed and scarin

And I admitted, “That was one of the most colorful insults I’ve ever heard And since I was raised in a big Irish Catholic fa”

“I was raised by the Russian mafia By the tis, identify counterfeit hundred dollar bills, and threaten bodily harm in a truly offensive and spectacular fashion”

“Well, kudos YouSchool” I studied her carefully She oing to stick around and hear what Catherine had to say on the whole ‘fake e’ subject

“Nah, I was a distant second behind D when he lays into soot the three C’s down pat: crude, colorful, and completely inappropriate He makes me look like a rank amateur” She smiled proudly

I came back up the stairs slowly as I said, “I’ve never seen that, actually I can’t really even iine it He always seems so refined”

That drew an unladylike snort of laughter froht” Then she said, “Oh wait, you’re serious!” I blinked at her like I was ed , “Babe, I have so much to tell you about your cute little boyfriend”

“Ok But can we start with the fake e?”

“Absolutely” She led thy discussion We need to fortify ourselves with so” She threw open a couple cabinets and sighed in frustration, then looked in the freezer and said, “Does Dmitri have any alcohol besides vodka?”

“I don’t think so”