CLAN by Shaun Whittington

Author:Shaun Whittington
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2013-05-24T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty Seven

Wednesday had been a stressful day for Ricky Hernandez, and he was out walking alone. He had had a bad day at work and wanted desperately to tie his boss up, and beat him to death with a cricket bat.

Knowing that such an action would result in him losing his job, as well as spending a vast amount of time in prison, he decided against it and went to the toilets at his work after the incident and took his anger out on a few toilet doors. His wrath had increased every time he thought of the occurrence that occurred at 3pm.

It was trivial, but Ricky was having an argument with a fellow colleague about music during their fifteen-minute tea break. Two teams were formed and the short quiz turned into an argument. The question was: Can you name songs by The Beatles that has a woman's name in the title?

There were two teams and numerous songs were reeled off such as Eleanor Rigby, Lovely Rita, Sexy Sadie, Julia and Michelle. At this point, both teams were stuck for another song. Then the boss, who was also sitting in the canteen, announced that whoever got the next one, could go home an hour early, seem as though Christmas wasn’t far away. He would only accept the first answer. Hernandez chipped in and smiled proudly as he shouted out Dizzy Miss Lizzy. His team members patted him on the back and Ricky's face was wearing a mask of smugness.

Unfortunately, the boss corrected Hernandez and told him that Dizzy Miss Lizzy, the closing track off the Help album, was a cover and was written by Larry Williams. He was reminded that the question was: Name as many Beatle songs that has a woman’s name in the title?

Hernandez, a fierce competitor in anything, was raging, and his anger was multiplied when his boss laughed at him mockingly. The other team came up with Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and had won the trivial competition. To make matters worse, off the top of his head, the boss informed Hernandez that he had the pick of other songs such as, Dear Prudence, Martha My Dear, Polythene Pam, Maggie Mae, Lady Madonna, The Ballad of John and Yoko and Penny Lane. Although Hernandez and his group tried to salvage some pride and argued that Penny Lane was named after a street, the boss insisted that Penny was still a woman’s name.

It didn’t take much for Hernandez to lose his cool. Two months ago, Ricky had gotten drunk and kicked in the glass door entrance to the old folks home, simply because he had dropped his lamb kebab on the floor. Knowing that it would be unhygienic to eat the thing off the floor, he returned the kebab to the fast food restaurant, but they refused to give him another one for free. Seeing that the Turks were in the background working away with their knives, even Hernandez had the sense not to antagonise the owner and opted to go home on an empty stomach.

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