Bubba Joe waddled his short stocky self out of the liquor store, clutching the brown paper bag that contained a tall bottle of the cheapest booze he could find. He couldn't wait to head back to his daughter's home and get working on it. He loved his little girl but that house was not the most stress free place to be in. What with all the screaming those beady eyed babies did and how the silly looking Black man she done married up with kept staring at him like he was wondering when he was leaving again and LuLu obsessing over Jimmy coming back and that baby kidnapping. LuLu had been glued to the tv set the whole time. Sure. It was sad that the kid disappeared but it didn't require all that much attention. Especially since kid belonged to the man keeping Sol from LuLu. That was almost just dessert really. Soon as he got unwinded with a few glasses of what was in the bag he planned to pay a visit to his grandson and he wanted that little wheelchair man to say one thing to him. Blood was over some dumb piece of paper Gertrude Klein had written probably in crayon.
He was heading to his car which was parked a couple blocks away from the store when he suddenly collided with a woman.
A woman who reminded him of his betraying Myrtle.
A woman who had stopped dead in the middle of the sidewalk to gulp greedily out of a silver flask.
" Hey , watch where you going, old fool ! ," she snapped tersely in a crusty old voice that was edged with a strong Irish accent. He almost smiled. He had some old country people on his family tree. On his ma's side.
He laughed. " I was , old woman ! You need to watch where you stand ! '
The woman glanced at the liquor store bag he held and then back at him with a sudden big smile on her big broad face. " Well , you might be clumsy but today your lucky day, it is. You found yourself a drinking mate , you have. They calls me Nance. Nance Glover. Who you be, cutie? "
Bubba Joe clutched tighter at the bag as her devious eyes went back to staring at it. " Bubba Joe. Bubba Joe Benson ."
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ODDS OF LOVE SEASON TWELVE
General FictionThe ongoing soap opera about disabled math genius Spencer Norland - Lane , his doctor husband DuBuis Lane and their family and friends in the Washington DC Metro area.
