JR (120 page)

—What do you mean I'm not that's all you've been…

—Because you got fired that's what I been waiting to tell you, I mean after how you loused up everything like I mean I try to fix everything

up for you and I mean if it's just you you're lousing up but like you go lousing up everything for everybody what do you…

—Stop no stop of all the, get your foot down what do you mean, you've been waiting to tell me you fired me while I was gone? Waiting to see if your Indian deal worked out now you think I loused everything up so you decide I was fired before I ever went out there so you won't have to part with this thirty mil look don't start getting out these torn up newspapers I don't want to see them just tell me, is that it?

—No wait a second see it's not even…

—I mean don't misunderstand me being fired nothing could be better nothing could make me happier, this helping you out again just this once if I'd never…

—No but it wasn't me Bast I didn't fire you they did, you…

—It's never you it's always they who's they, if you'd…

—These here lenders that got pissed off when you sold your stock and screwed up everything that's what I'm trying to tell you, these here banks and…

—What do you mean when I sold my stock, all I …

—I mean boy you can even ask Nonny if there's this one thing I always said it's to keep this here whole thing exactly legal and I mean with all these here option terms and bylaws and all if there's this here one thing I thought you wouldn't do it's that, I mean after I go fix everything up so you don't get screwed by these income taxes and you go sell it off so it's taxed like this here straight salary I was saving you from? Like this here suit says you sold at eleven and a half that's like fifty-seven thousand five hundred I mean that's over fifty-four thousand dollars, that's this fifty-three percent rate that's like they're taking like twenty-seven thousand just the government that's not even the state which they're these real shits boy and I mean that's not even…

—Wait the only thing you've said I ever heard of is this salary you've been saving me from that's the whole…

—No but that's not even counting all this legal stuff too, I mean like they're always saying this here friend in need is this friend indeed boy I must be this real big friend then I …

—It doesn't mean that it doesn't mean the one who's in need, it means the friend who comes to help the one who's in …

—I know boy I mean you've like got this whole fifty-seven thousand dollars and boy am I in nee…

—No now stop look, listen what makes you think I just told you didn't I? I've got thirty-seven cents? What makes you think I sold my stock I just used it to borrow some money, this salary you've been saving me from what did you expect me to do I had about four dollars it's the one thing your neat guy Davidoff's ever done that made sense, he worked out something with Mister Crawley so I could…

—No but okay what's the difference, I mean you go sell off your stock for like fifty-seven thousand dollars or you give it to this bank someplace for collateral and loan this here fifty-seven thousand dollars off them then they go sell it for fifty-seven thousand dollars, I mean

you still got this here fifty-seven thou…

—I don't have it! I never had it listen…

—And I mean this whole option thing like when I fixed it up to help you out so instead you're yelling at me on the phone where were you suppose to get this fifty thousand dollars so you could like exercise it so now you…

—I borrowed it and paid it right back how do you think I …

—No but I mean how could you pay it right back if you didn't go sell off this here stock that's what I mean! And I mean anyway there's this whole law which you can't loan money off banks to go buy stock with it on top of you even told me that time on the phone you're not selling it, I mean that's what's this here tremendous like disappointment you know Bast? I mean like you didn't have any confidence in this here whole enterprise and like all this here corporate loyalty where we used each other and all like you didn't even hardly be …

—Listen first I didn't sell the stock I didn't tell the bank to sell it either, second I didn't borrow money from a bank to buy it I borrowed it from my aunts. I used their stock to borrow enough to buy this stock on this option and then I used this stock to borrow seven thousand dollars Mister Davidoff said would be waiting and the rest of it to pay back the loan on my aunts' stock and put it back in their account with Mister Crawley, now that's all I …

—What he keeps it all in this street name down there?

—Here we are, sir.

—Because if he does these here aunts better watch out hey…

—Wait a minute, what driver? Where, we're where…

—Pennsylvania Station.

—What are we doing here, we want…

—Our instructions sir, bring your group back to the Penn…

—I thought you were taking us back out to Long Island, we …

—See because if Crawley and Wiles and these here brokers need all this collateral for these here big loans they're…

—Be quiet, driver? Listen take us out there anyhow you can just put it on the same bill, this company that…

—Can't do that sir I don't have the authoriza…

—Well I'll give it to you I'm giving you the authorization!

—Can't do that sir I don't have the authorization to accept your authori…

—See they're getting this real hard time from these commodity exchanges for all this margin money since these here bellies dropped so

…

—Be quiet! look do you know who, wait have you got any cash?

—Well, well sure but…

—All right, driver? We'll just pay cash then how much will…

—Can't do that sir our franchise don't permit…

—Why can't, why didn't you just say so! Here come on, let's…

—You want this rest of this here cupcake?

—Bring it bring everything yes you can't leave…

—Okay could you hold this a second while I …

—I can't hold anything a second here give me that box and get what's that on the floor there…

—Boy if I lost that it's this tape player thing, have you got these here tapes off the phone hey? Because…

—Get that banana on the armrest please sir?

—See because Piscator said they're like subpoening all these here phone tapes which we want to hear them before…

—Will you get that damn banana! Here the rest of you, this way, this way…

—We going to the movies Mister Bast?

—That guy with all the heads could we go see him hey?

—These women wrestling these eels…

—We're not going anywhere we're going home! now here stay together… !

—Because this whole trade deal was loused up too you were suppose to fix up where Ray-X can't get this rhodium from this place Gandia where they're having this here war so there's this dumb law you can't buy exports off them so there's this trade delegate guy from this broken down country Malwi right by this place Gandia you were suppose to see him at the Waldorf before you…

—Down this way stay together…

—Where you couldn't get this export license to like export these bellies down to China so like if we exported them to this place Malwi where they export them down to China we could like one percent this money from them into this Gandia and one percent this here rhodium back out and then like just import it here with this Malwi as country of origin do you have to walk so fast hey? I'm dropping…

—Here this way all of you hurry up … !

—So then this here Malwi place goes and gets sucked in this same dumb war…

—I said stay together!

—And these talks they're having at the Senate about trading with China and Russia and all, this Senator Broos breaks them off and all these bellies drop so Crawley and Wiles and these brokers get pissed

off at me because they're getting this hard time from these commodity exchanges over all this here margin money which I haven't got it so they have to hey wait a second…

—There's our track hurry up the train's in four min, where's where did he …

—He's over there getting a newspaper could we get some candy?

—No! get the train I'll get him, of all the sorry excuse me, of all the, sorry…

—Oh hey Bast? Have you got some change I can't reach my…

—Just leave it! the train's…

—But I already took the paper you said you have thirty-sev…

—Just, damn it here! Now hurry up …

—Boy you almost knocked that old worn…

—I don't care hurry up!

—Hey wait up hey my shoelace holy…

—Stop that pushing up there! stay togeth…

—Boy I barely made it if you would have…

—Just sit down will you? The rest of you up there sit down…

—Do you want by the window or …

—I don't care just sit down!

—Okay just let me get my foot over these new laces boy I almost lost my sneaker back there, could you move your…

—I can't move anything no get your foot down, can't you just…

—Where am I suppose to put it!

—Try the floor! and get your knee out of my…

—No but I have to set this thing up to play these here telephone tapes so we can hear what…

—listen if you want to play tapes go find another seat, I'm…

—No but we have to hear them before they get subpoened I mean how do we even know what's on them. I mean like you sent me one once where right in the middle of I'm telling you where we're getting this hard time on these Ace mining claims from this here Interior Department suddenly there's this singing and you hear this guy say you have just heard somebody Fisher dishcloth singing this here foreign…

—I thought the tape was blank! I, I tried to get some things off that junk pocket radio that's all, what difference does…

—Because if they subpoen them that's why! Because this here old lady Begg she's suing me too she's subpoening everything for where we took over at Eagle so if there's ,this tape where I'm saying how we're protecting these here stockholders like where Eagle's losing all this money so we move everything down at Georgia so we can…

—Look you're spilling papers all …

—Wait it's under here, I mean we even try to help out this dump Union Falls with this whole big cemetery thing and like giving them these Eagle properties for this here park and speedway so how this old lady Begg thanks us she goes around telling these here other old stockholders how I screwed them converting my preferred stock into common to like get control so I could wait here it is look, the Begg Action is a consolidated class action brought by former stockholders of Eagle wait no this one's yours, where's…

—My what, what's…

—Where she's pissed off at you too here, the Action arises out of alleged violations of Section ten b of the Securities Exchange Act of nineteen thirty-four and rule ten b five progul, mul, progulma…

—Promulgated give me that! what's, she's suing me too?

—You didn't need to grab it, I mean you didn't get one? Piscator sent me this here cop…

—Wait now just because she's suing you I didn't even know what

the, I just went up there and ate that disgusting candle salad with…

—No but see she's suing you for this whole other thing hey, like where I took over this control to protect these here stockholders where their J R Corp equity went way up if they would have sold see? Only when it went down and they sell at like five and an eighth like this old lady Begg so they're all pissed off at you for getting this eleven and a half where you knew what's going on inside ahead of time…

—Inside what, I …

—Like inside the company and all that's why they call it this insider suit see where you're this here…

—Inside? that's, how could I be inside there isn't any inside! How could anybody believe the, the only inside's the one inside your head like these statements you make, these tapes you play over the phone to these newspapers virgin minerals gas discoveries the health plan of tomorrow travel of the future some reporter even found me out there he said he understood we were freezing sound now what kind of a …

—No but wait that was right in the paper hey, just…

—Look don't start digging through that trash again can't you see it's all just…

—No but that's what I been telling you about protecting these here stockholders trying to keep the price up of their stock, I mean where these like security analysts are making this big deal out of like where Ray-X is getting screwed with these big penalties on these old fixed price contracts where they can't get this here rhodium and like recalling these products, like these old cruds with these heart pacer

things quit working so they have to go get these new ones replanted in them where we even have to pay the hospital and all, and I mean right when we get these here big cost-plus look, here it is look. Frigicom, a process now being de wait, operating at faster than sound speeds, a complex process employing liquid nitrogen will be used to convert the noise shards…

—Listen can't you understand? it's just like that story about the Indian res…

—What where they wrecked up everything? No but see why these here students threw rocks at General Haight see this university down there by Ray-X where we did them this big real estate favor right when he comes down there to get this here honorable degree these students get pissed off at these big military contracts we got them for research development to like help them out you know? Where this same shithead this Senator Broos he starts these secret hearings where they're like reviewing this defense budget, I mean it's like this here hundred billion dollars so his crumby Armed Service Committee they're making this big deal out of this lousy thirty-eight million about cost overruns where they been having these technical problems with these here shards and all hey? hey Bast?

—What.

—You looked like you weren't listening, I mean did you ever know

we hired Mister diCephalis hey?

—No and I don't really…

—I mean I didn't even know it either, see they got him from this computer executive employment place where everybody's this here number so we're looking for this skilled psychological personnel guy which it exactly matched his number isn't that funny hey?