An August Harvest by Ben Marney

Author:Ben Marney [Marney, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ben Marney Books
Published: 2019-04-21T16:00:00+00:00

The Beverly Beach Project was going great. It was on schedule and so far, under budget. It was a huge project that kept me hopping. It had become almost more than I could handle, but I got lucky and found a great assistant to help me stay organized. I met her by accident...well, sort of. It was another one of those Charley things.

My office was located in the heart of Saint Augustine’s historic district. It was literally surrounded by great restaurants. After trying most of them, I soon found my favorite three or four to have lunch. The main requirements were good food, quick service and they had to be dog friendly, because Charley was usually with me. It was never my decision of which restaurant we went to; that was up to Charley. I would just follow behind him holding on to his leash and he would take me where he wanted to go.

The day I met Annabelle, my assistant, Charley didn’t lead me to one of our regular lunch spots. Instead, he drug me almost a mile, with me complaining behind him all the way. He took me to O.C. White’s. We’d been there before, but it was too far away from my office, so it wasn’t one of our regular lunch hangouts.

When I realized where he was taking me, I pulled on his leash to make him stop and look at me. “O.C. White’s? Why here, Charley? They’re always packed and their service is too slow. I don’t have time for this today. I need to get back to the office,”

He stared up at me. “Woof.” Then he turned and continued walking, pulling me behind him.

When we got to the entrance to the outside patio, I stopped, let go of his leash and started to ask the hostess if she had an open table. Charley didn’t wait for the answer and walked past the hostess to an empty table near the back.

The hostess laughed and motioned for me to follow Charley. “We have several open tables, but it looks like he wants to sit there.”

I smiled at her, shrugged my shoulders and walked to the table Charley was now sprawled under. Although there were five or six tables available that were not surrounded by other diners, apparently Charley wanted me to sit there, in the middle of the most crowded area on the patio.

When I reached to pull out a chair, he stood up and growled at me. “What? You don’t want me to sit down?”

He looked over at the chair behind the table and barked. “You want me to sit back there?” He gave me his goofy smile and laid back down.

I actually had to slide the table forward a little to get the chair out far enough to sit down. I was only inches away from a group of young college girls sitting behind me.

When the waitress came, I bent down and read out loud to Charley his choices. When I got to what he wanted, he barked his approval.

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