Smothered in Onions by Tracey Quinn

Author:Tracey Quinn [Quinn, Tracey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Publisher
Published: 2019-04-05T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

There was a good crowd at the fair that day, and they were hungry; by one o'clock that afternoon we were getting low on most of our dishes, except for onion rings, and I had to call Linda at the Breezy Spoon to have her get some more sausage and french fries ready for Brendan to pick up and bring to the fair. Linda and her husband Don live in the apartment above the Breezy Spoon and I was lucky enough to hire them to work the dinner shifts for me. Linda has lots of restaurant experience and they're both terrific cooks. Today they were handling the early shift at the Breezy Spoon while Brendan and I worked at the booth in the fair.

I was still waiting for Brendan to return when Suze came up to the booth. “Hi hi,” she said. “So, how's business? It looked like you had a big crowd most of the day.”

“Yes, we've been been busy,” I said. “Can I get you anything to eat?”

“Thanks, but I already had a protein bar. That's good enough for me,” Suze replied, helping herself to a deep-fried cheescake on a stick. “Besides, Pollyanna says it's not a good idea to eat too much before a match or it might all come back up.”

“I was surprised to hear that you were going to wrestle Pollyanna. Do you know a lot about wrestling?”

“Nah, but Pollyanna said she'll tell me what to do. I did gymnastics when I was a kid and I figure it's probably not too much different.”

As someone who had experienced the Pollyanna Death Grip I had a feeling that it was going to be a bit different than gymnastics. As I turned to hand Suze a glass of lemonade, I noticed Roger Travers heading our way. Looking around our small booth, I remembered the line from the old song that went “nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide”.

“Hello, hello, hello, lovely ladies,” Roger called. “Just found out that the population of Ireland is twice what it used to be. You know why? It's Dublin! Get it, get it?”

“But why is it doubling?” asked Suze.

“Uh, because Dublin is the capital city of Ireland, get it?”

“You mean that everyone's moving to Dublin for some reason and now there's more room for other people to come into Ireland so there's twice as many?” she asked, scratching her nose ring thoughtfully.

“No, no, it's a joke,” Roger explained with a strained smile. “Dublin, the city, sounds the same as doubling, the word that means to have twice as many.”

“That's sort of confusing. Maybe they should change the name or something. I mean, people are allowed to change their names so probably cities could, too.”

“Yeah, probably,” Roger said, giving up. “Anyway, I just popped by to see if Dani had decided to fly my plane! I've got my first customers lined up and we want to schedule a flight as soon as possible. It's an easy-peasy job and I can pay you cash on the barrel-head to do the round trip.

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