You don't even have to go that far ... take your typical
single mother. Okay, maybe not typical but mine anyway.
Stands about 5'4" ... after a decade of no where restaurant
jobs (which climaxed with a pipe bomb under car after she got
the other waitresses organized into a union) she moved to
Texas and became a truck driver. She hauled drill bits and
pipe to and from oil drilling sites for the next decade
establishing her own business. Carried a .38 in her purse and
a nickel-plated sawed-off 12 gauge shotgun beyond the
driver's seat. While doesn't curse like a sailor (I being the
sailor, that's my department) ... she can drink a lot of hard
drinking men under the table or could. Pool (billiards for
you delicate types) bar champ in Michigan for awhile. Now she
drives across country buying antiques, fixin' em up, and
resellin' them at a profit. Pretty much by herself ...
although the shotgun is probably still behind her driver's
seat.
When the real thing has raised ya, it's easy to see where the
authors fall short.
-- Anthony Dauer
Hard-boiled Noir http://www.adau.net/judas_ezine/toc.htm
-----Original Message----- From: James Rogers Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 2:58 PM
Well, of course there are a lot of HB women in real life.....try talking to a whore or ex-whore sometime.
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