Life’s Dues: Beginning

By R. Richard

Linda walks into the gym, signs in and then, instead of going to the ladies dressing room or to the aerobic dance area, she scans the workout area. She sees Jason, working the bench press. Linda stalks over to the bench press machine. She snarls, “Well Jason, are you proud that you put Billy into the hospital?”
Jason has just bench pressed 325 pounds. He gets up from the machine, faces Linda and says, “I just bench pressed 325 pounds. That’s the dues that I pay to handle a punk like Billy. I didn’t go looking for Billy, Billy came looking for me. Billy found me. Billy pays his dues doing twelve ounce curls at a bar. Billy earned what his dues paid for.”
Linda snarls, “You cost Billy his job.”
Jason sighs, “I was assigned a computer to do a support task for an outside customer. Billy decided that it would be fun to just block my usage of the computer that I was assigned, when I had time scheduled. Billy’s boss, Rickey, would always back his boy up. Rickey outranks me and outranks my boss. The outside customer outranks Rickey. The guards came and extracted Billy from the computer room. Billy gave the guards quite a bit of lip. The guards didn’t argue with Billy, they just marched Billy to Personnel and Personnel told Billy that he had just earned a week off, without pay. Billy gave Personnel quite a bit of lip. Personnel then gave Billy his final paycheck. Billy apparently went off and got drunk. Billy then came back and attacked me in the parking lot of the company, where he no longer worked, and in front of witnesses. Some of the witnesses and the police said that I hit Billy with my fists. The surveillance camera says that I hit Billy with my forearms and my knee went into Billy’s groin. I don’t know I black out during times of violence. The police then disturbed a crime scene, by removing Billy. I didn’t cost Billy his job, Billy cost Billy his job.”
Linda snarls, “So you say.”
I reply, “The police refused my citizen’s arrest on Billy. I have a lawyer working on the matter.”
Linda snarls, “Billy is in the hospital and he’s hurt real bad. You don’t care.”
“I do care. Billy is in the hospital, being patched up for his next attack on me. Billy should be in jail. I have made complaint to the police and the District Attorney.”
Linda snarls, “How is Billy going to make a living?”
I say, “I taught myself how to program computers, Billy might try that.”
Linda sighs, “Billy is not the kind to do computer work. Billy is more of a manager type.”
I reply, “A manager has to get along with people. Billy was a troublemaker, not a manager.”
Linda says, “Billy just wanted to see how you would handle him being on your computer machine.”
I lecture, “I handled the matter by notifying the outside customer that I was working with. The outside customer complained. Billy’s boss, Rickey, would back his boy up. Rickey outranks me and outranks my boss. The outside customer outranks Rickey.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R. Richard
• Release date: Jun 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005822040

R. Richard

I'm the co-author, with Sunset Thomas, of Anatomy of An Adult Film.I have 48 novels and over 299 short stories currently published.I spent my early years in the part of Los Angeles known as the South Central. I was known as Whi' Boy, which was sufficient to identify me in that place. I'm a skilled Kung Fu player, using a system that I learned from a Korean I knew only as 'Pak.' It would be easier to tell you the places that Pak wasn't wanted by the police, rather than the places where he was wanted by the police. Pak's Kung Fu system, augmented by some bits and pieces from some Chinese practitioners is quick and effective, or I wouldn't be alive today.My early education was mostly obtained by stealing books from the public library (I always returned them and the Librarian even began to provide me with reading lists.) I did go to high schools, but I never really learned anything there. I eventually graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles, UCLA, with a degree in mathematics.I work as a Systems Analyst and also make a part of my living as a professional gambler (legal in Nevada.) I write science fiction and erotica. My published novels are:Anatomy of An Adult Film (With Sunset Thomas)1. Second Chance: God Killer2. Second Chance: Sky Pirate3. Second Chance: Scroll Seeker4. Second Chance: King of The Islands5. Second Chance: King of Zaya6. Second Chance: Duke of Averon7. Second Chance: King of Golomon8. Second Chance: King Of The Sky9. Second Chance: Warlord of Ifrequeh10. Second Chance: King of Ariby11. Second Chance: King of Mesodania12. Second Chance: King of Avuls13. Second Chance: King of Kemet14. Second Chance: King of Zorran15. Second Chance: King of Two Worlds16. Second Chance: King of Averon17. Second Chance: King's Duties18. Second Chance: King of The New WorldAdventurer: Simulation ProblemAdventurer: Pannar ProblemA Programmer's GambitAmateur StripperBeach MurdersBondage HouseCorporate Sex SlavesFriday NightGo Naked In The SoftwareGrasshopper WinterInvoluntary NudeLayoffNot A HeroPirates of The KeysSummer of SexThe LakeThe Last Moon DanceThe Nude Adventures of Plain JaneThe Secret Life of Wanda WilsonTails of the Pussycat LoungeTo Keep A JobTopless RestaurantToy WhoresVix: The MarineWayward BoyShort Stories:A Christmas Visit

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