Rules of the Road by Joan Bauer

Author:Joan Bauer [Bauer, Joan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781101657881
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 2005-06-02T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

I grabbed a quick sip of my extra-thick coffee milk shake and said into the phone, “Mr. Bender, I’m from Chicago. I’m not sure what you mean about not drinking downstream from the herd.”

I could hear Harry Bender clear his throat. I’d just told him how things had gone with Elden. Mrs. Gladstone had asked me to pass it along.

“Oh, wait a minute.” I pictured horses relieving themselves in a pure mountain stream. I made a face. “I get it.”

“You’re catching on,” Harry Bender said. “Got to find us a safe place in this situation. In AA we say, ‘God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.’”

AA stands for Alcoholics Anonymous, an important organization that helps people stop drinking. “You’re in AA?”

“Twenty-three years.”

“Wow. I really respect that, sir.” We got my dad to go to one meeting. He stormed home saying he didn’t need to be sitting around with all those losers.

“Saved my bacon, I’ll tell you. I was flat out in the gutter slurping slop. You tell Maddy I’m finding support for her out in the field. Lots of stockholders want the company to stay like it is, but Elden’s talking big money and people like that kind of talk.”

“Is she going to lose the company, sir?”

“Not while I’m breathing.”

I smiled. “I’m looking forward to meeting you, Mr. Bender.” “We’ll have us a high old time. See you in Texas.”

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