Lucky's Manners
The sycophants laughed on cue as he followed up with irrelevant
cliches about all being fair in love and war, but Lucky quickly
lost his temper when the student defiantly demanded his money back
yet again. The portly features moulded themselves into a darkly
menacing mask, while all traces of forced humour vanished in a
trice. He extended a threatening sausage of a finger, sharply
stabbing the private air space in front of the kids face as he
hissed out a final warning with abject venom.
'Now listen here you scruffy shiftless punk.....If you were to get
a haircut and a job you might be able to afford a decent wagon; but
'till then get off my back' He loomed over the youngster using his
massive bulk to intimidate to the max, and uttered a string of
profane threats with belligerent malice. 'Now get this dole bludger
off my property.........NOW I said!' to which the thuggish sales
staff readily obliged by grabbing both arms and roughly escorting
him to the sidewalk. As though for good measure the larger balding
man hefted two savage kicks connecting painfully with the students
inner thigh and sending him spinning to the ground. This gratuitous
act of barbarism had the buoyant effect of restoring Lucky's humour
to its rightful throne and, chortling merrily, he waddled back into
the much needed comfort of the air-conditioning. Had he been aware
that the entire episode was witnessed by a motorist waiting at the
red light across the street, or more importantly the identity and
persona of the watchful driver, his jubilation might not have been
so robust. Mr George Hayduke happened to be a close friend of the
student's family, having been brothers in arms with his father in
Vietnam. Recognising young Tim Pike as the victim he quickly pulled
out of the line of traffic to park and covertly monitor the
situation.
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