With help from Red, who knew the company men for Phillips Petroleum in southern Missouri, Ben bought the only service station in a twenty mile radius of Lake Wappapello. The station also had a marina directly on the lake to service boats.
Again with help from Red, Ben hired two young men to help run the marina and service station. He was following in Red's footsteps in that he could either close his business when he and Retta wanted to get away or at least have someone else run it for him.
"I'll make a fisherman and hunter out of you yet. I might even get you to like camping," Retta said as she sat down in her husband's lap.
"Fishing and hunting yes," Ben replied. "But not camping. My idea of roughing it is a hotel with no room service."
"It's only been a year since we got married and moved to the lake, just give me time to work on you." Retta smiled as Ben ran his hand over her stomach pregnant with their first child.
"Besides, our son will want to go camping; I'll make sure of that."
The End
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BETRAYING THE BETRAYED
and whose on 1st. TK U MLJ LV NV
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Most folks don't know how close is too close in a tense situation. Long, long ago in a faraway land, I received some self defense training. Some of the first classes covered how to not need violence to defend your self. One of the things taught was how close you can be and still get hit, grabbed, or otherwise molested. Most people get nervous whenever someone gets in their 'personal space' about 3 feet for strangers. Someone within 6 feet can grab, hit, take a can of your choice out of your hand before you can react, unless you have your finger on the trigger and are all tensed up to squeeze one off RIGHT F--- NOW. Even then he will reach you unless you get a center of forehead shot, body shots just ant good enough when he is that close and armed with a knife or tire iron. So yes, a man with average or better reflexes could have taken the can.more...
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And if she did everything you said there would be no story. You do understand that there needs to be a hook to create a story, don't you?
Excellent story, woodmanone.
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