One for My Baby
“She has her bucket in one hand and her copy of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter in the other. She has all her kit on – the yellow gloves, the blue nylon coat, the flat shoes she cleans in – but she is making no move to go to work. It’s nearly nine o’clock but she still has her face buried in that old paperback.“How’s Mick?” I ask her. “Still got her dreams?”“Hello,” she says, not looking up.Lenny the Lech walks in. Lenny is one of those short, fat men who swaggers around as though he is some kind o...f tall, thin catch. Like me, Lenny is a former teacher who went out to sell English by the pound in Asia – Manila and Bangkok in Lenny’s case. Something about him spoilt out there. He has that soft, bloated look that Europeans often get when they stay too long in the tropics – or when they stay too long in tropical bars. Lenny got laid a lot more in Asia then he ever did at home and now he looks at women the way that a farmer sizes up his cows. At Churchill’s his lechery is legendary.“Have you seen that new little Polish number in the Advanced Beginners?”MoreLess
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