Good Ol' Boys

GOBGB : The Milkman Cometh …

Don’t you read the darn newspaper?” LeRoy asked his good friend Bubba.

“Well I try not to when I can help it,” Bubba replied, adding “it just gets me so darn tore up, all the crap going on over in Elizabeth City, and then some politician is whining about this, and some bureaucrat is cryin about that.”

LeRoy smiled and laughed aloud at his friend’s observations. “Well, I read that the Morrison fella was involved in that Chowan County debacle, and now he’s all tied up in the Albemarle Mental Health Snafu!”

As he continued chopping the decoys out of the inch thick ice, Bubba looked at his friend, “Care to enlighten me on the last one?”

LeRoy relished the opportunity to share his knowledge of the local news with his good friend.

“Well the way I hear it, that Charlie Franklin fella over in the River City built himself a fine little empire outta takin’ care of the mentally ill folks,” LeRoy explained.

Bubba listened intently, wrapping the lead lines around the base of each decoy.

“The problem was, old Charlie got a little greedy, retired and came back to double dip the system as one of those consultant fellas,” LeRoy continued.

Bubba nodded his head in understanding as he continued listening.

LeRoy related, “he even convinced that Board of Directors o’er there that he was worth almost $400,000 each year.”

Bubba interjected, “sounds like to me this Franklin fella had figured out the system, and worked it to the best of his advantage.”

LeRoy nodded, “so all of a sudden here of late, there comes the revelation that the whole darn thing is broke!”

“So what about that board of directors, ain’t they s’posed to be watching o’er what Franklin is up to?” Bubba asked.

LeRoy laughed, “well seems Franklin had cultivated him a right healthy crop of mushrooms over there, kept ‘em all in the dark and fed em lots of manure!”

Bubba busted out laughing at his friends analogy. “So he’s done absconed with the funds and left someone else holdin’ the bag?” Bubba asked.

“Yeah and that’s where old Honest John Morrison comes in… seems he’s left cleaning up everybody’s mess around here. Chowan County, and now Albemarle Mental Health. If I remember he also got Currituck County straight a while back”, LeRoy said with a wink and a grin.

Bubba suddenly had a revelation of his own, “You know, I’m thinking it’s kinda funny, yet kinda sad how this dysfunctional group was supposed to be helping dysfunctional folks.”

LeRoy perked up, “well I guess it takes one to know one, and the old Milkman though he had a corner on the market!”

They both shared a good laugh as they headed back to the boat, arms full of decoys..

Next week: Surprise!

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