Pic by Jack Kerouac

Author:Jack Kerouac [Kerouac, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2019-07-03T16:00:00+00:00

10

How Slim Lost Two Jobs in One Day

I’ll never forget that day because so many things happened all at oncet. Started off, me and Slim got up jess as the sun come back red, and he cooked up some eggs and breakfast so’s Sheila could sleep some more. Grandpa, ain’t nothin better in the world like eggs and breakfast in the mornin because your taster ain’t worked all night and ever’thing comes so chawy and smells so fryin good it makes a body wish he could eat ever’body’s breakfast all up and down the street seven times, ain’t it the truth? When we come down on the street and I seed all them men eatin more eggs and breakfast in the corner store I wished I could eat all the breakfasts in New York City. It was a cool mornin and wasn’t but six o’clock, I had my new socks, and Slim’s black sweater, and Sheila done sewed up the holes in my pants, and I was all set. And you know the first thing happened? We was standin in the doorway and Slim was readin the newspaper want ads, and it was mighty chill, and keen, and ever’body come by to get to the work-bus coughin and spittin and shore looked mis’ble from work in New York City, and some of them was readin the papers with the most gloomy disappointed look like if’n the papers complained jess what they hankered to see, and here come a man out of that crowd who knew Slim. ‘Well there daddyo,’ he said and showed Slim the palm of his hand, and Slim showed him his, and they touched up like that. ‘Don’t tell me you’re lookin for a job again,’ the man said, and Slim told him he was shore enough.

‘Well, I declare, I got a job for you. You know my brother Henry. He ain’t got up yet this mornin. I jess talked to him. I say “Henry, ain’t you supposed to go to work in that cookie factory down on whatzit street?” And he hid under the pillow and says, “Yes I guess so, uh-huh,” but don’t move a bone. I say, “Henry, ain’t you gettin up? Henry! Well now Henry? Hey, yoo-hoo, Henry?” That man just made up his mind to sleep, that’s all,’ and Slim’s friend walked off ten feet and come back again.

‘Do you think he’ll be fired?’ Slim axed him curious, and the man said, ‘Henry? Will he be fired?’ Dog my cats if he don’t walk off again and come back. ‘You mean Henry?’ and he looked away, and shook his head, and felt too tired to do anything but hang his head, ‘Shooee, he’s got the world record for that. He’s been fired more times than he’s been hired.’

‘What’s the address of this place?’ Slim said, and the man knew it and gave it to us, and made another couple of funny jokes and said, ‘Lookout for the boogieman,’ when me and Slim took off for the job factory.

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