Back to Brooklyn by Lawrence Kelter

Author:Lawrence Kelter
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Down & Out Books
Published: 2017-05-21T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Forty-Five: The Dreaded Tribunal

Gloria’s was a small shop that catered mostly to neighborhood women. Lisa had gotten laid off at the end of the year because business was slow, but now with business on the upswing and some of the girls calling out sick…

Gloria left Lisa to close up.

She was exhausted and eager to leave, but she needed a few minutes to rest and sprawled out on a stylist’s chair, rolling her head from side to side with her eyes closed. She opened her eyes when she heard a tap on the window, looked up, and smiled. Her friend Mimi was waving furiously and dancing in place because of the cold. Lisa slid out of the chair, walked to the door, and unlocked it. “Where the hell have you been?” Lisa said scolding her as she wrapped her arms around her friend and gave her a kiss on the cheek. “I ain’t seen you in a dog’s age.”

Of all Lisa’s friends, Mimi was the least inhibited. Her skirt was beyond short, her heels were stilts, and when she unzipped her jacket, she flaunted a staggering amount of cleavage. “You look freakin’ great, Lisa. I guess you and Vinny had a ball down there in Alabama.”

“A ball?” she answered cynically. “You got no idea. That place is the sticks. I got woken up at all hours of the night by giant whistles and squealing pigs at the stockyard next door to the hotel. And Chinese food, please, don’t even get me started.”

“A real dump, huh? But you look good.” They kissed again.

“Do you mind if we sit down?” Lisa asked. “I’m friggin’ exhausted. I was working on Mrs. Terazini’s hair so long that everyone else went home.”

“How come?” Mimi said as she dropped her purse and took off her jacket.

“You know how she’s got that bald spot on the back of her head?”

“No.”

“Maybe you never noticed it but her hair has gotten really thin in the back and you can see clear down to her scalp.”

“I hope nothing like that ever happens to me, old woman problems like that.” She whispered, “I heard that when some women get really old they stop self-lubricating.” Mimi pretended to retch. “Could you imagine anything worse than a dried-out coochie?”

“Don’t worry—with all the traffic your coochie gets, you’ll wear out your internal parts long before anything dries up down there. Why are you whispering anyway? You think Gloria’s got some state-of-the-art surveillance system?”

Mimi blinked but offered no response.

“But anyway, I’m teasing and teasing and spraying and spraying, but no matter how hard I work at it, she complains every time I hold up the mirror to show her the back of her head. I swear I must’ve used up three big cans of hairspray on her. I teased her hair so high and so thick that a plummeting meteor couldn’t penetrate it.” She sighed and fell backwards into an empty chair.

“I’m so glad to see you, Lisa. I got news,” she said.

Lisa’s eyes lit up.

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