Golden Orange
“So to speak. That is, he was so worried about paying his lawyer, among others, that he got up before ten A.M. And instead of putting on jeans and a T-shirt, he borrowed a suit from his downstairs neighbor, a failed mortgage broker now working out of an abandoned warehouse in Costa Mesa, selling worthless mining stock to wealthy coupon clippers.
The 44 Regular fit Winnie okay, but he wasn’t used to baggy trousers and big shoulders, and when he stopped at Spoon’s Landing for a pick-me-up, Spoon l...ooked him over. “That just-took-it-outta-the-washer-with-the-sleeves-rolled-up look of today ain’t it, Winnie.”
“Think it’s too much?” Winnie buttoned the jacket, then unbuttoned it. “Maybe the green paisley tie don’t go with the winter white?”
“Too yuppie-ish,” Spoon said. “You’re no yuppie.”
Guppy Stover, who’d begun drinking brain tumors at nine A.M., was already surly. “Duppie,” she said. “You’re definitely downwardly urban. Goddamn duppie.”
Winnie said to Spoon, “I heard they’re lookin for a boat salesman over at that broker by Mariner’s Mile.MoreLess
The 44 Regular fit Winnie okay, but he wasn’t used to baggy trousers and big shoulders, and when he stopped at Spoon’s Landing for a pick-me-up, Spoon l...ooked him over. “That just-took-it-outta-the-washer-with-the-sleeves-rolled-up look of today ain’t it, Winnie.”
“Think it’s too much?” Winnie buttoned the jacket, then unbuttoned it. “Maybe the green paisley tie don’t go with the winter white?”
“Too yuppie-ish,” Spoon said. “You’re no yuppie.”
Guppy Stover, who’d begun drinking brain tumors at nine A.M., was already surly. “Duppie,” she said. “You’re definitely downwardly urban. Goddamn duppie.”
Winnie said to Spoon, “I heard they’re lookin for a boat salesman over at that broker by Mariner’s Mile.MoreLess
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