Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 05:53:20 -0700
Title: Queen Claire!

*con.sort vt (1588) 1: unite, associate 2 obs: escort ~ vi 1: to keep
company <~ing with criminals> 2 obs: to make harmony: play
3: accord, harmonize .
"You want ME to consort with you and buy some backroads bar?"

"Yeah, I'll need someone to run it.  Build it up a bit, with Jake's food
and your
charm."
Claire's suspicious but asks, "Where is it? Is it ANOTHER biker bar?"

"It's a cozy place with hay plastered all over the walls. Room enough for
small bands, music, and entertainment."

"Hay  the walls?  Will I have to wear a COWBOY hat?" Claire turns away
from me in what appears to be a gesture total disgust and rejection.

"You can take the hay off the walls if you double the business. Oh yeah,
you have to promise to card everyone. The current owners are being too
liberal. Someone's gonna get busted one of these days..."

"No, no kids fer godssake. Bikers like 'em but it cramps their style, dig?"

"So you gonna be my queen consort and run Del Dios Country Store for me, if
I buy it?"
*queen consort n, pl queens consort (1765): the wife of a reigning king.

"Queen? Ha! You only wish, dude, you ONLY wish!"
Claire smiles darkness but her eyes light her face.
She asks, "When do plan for us to start this venture? D'ya already own it or are
you just shoppin' around?"

"Let's just say we're within a month of moving in. I figure we won't have
to close
the place.  Any remodeling can be done 'on the fly,' so to speak..."

"So what you're sayin' is we'll put the patrons to work, right?"
"Yeah, right..."  We both smile, chuckle, touch beer glasses and drink to her
truth.

Interesting weekend, eh?
Maybe memories of Saturday & Sunday will
make Monday work ok, maybe...
later,
d.










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