Derrick
Here & there - Thailand
Derrick
Got a gig working private security.
Derrick
I protect and serve.
Derrick
Heard u doing well.
Derrick
Heard u canned Larry.
Adam
Larry called me collect 2 months ago from jail
Adam
said if I gave him a job - any job - he could get paroled and see his wife and kid again.
Derrick
He was busted for selling weed, right?
Adam
Not just selling - whole-selling
Adam
like an entire U-Haul's worth of Grade A. Got 5 years.
Derrick
He should have moved to Colorado.
Adam
LOL! Talk about bad timing - and bad location...
Derrick
So, did u hire him?
Adam
Yeah. Just as an intern. The image of a father and son reunited, & reunited solely because of me
Adam
gave me the final reason to commit, even against my better judgment.
Derrick
But didn't u & Kathy hook up?
Adam
...how much do you know?!
Adam
From "here & there" right?
Derrick
Just wanna make sure my old friend is okay.
Adam
I'm ok, I wanna know how much u know.
Derrick
Well, let's just say I heard u fired him.
Adam
I tried...several times.
Adam
But it wasn't because of Kathy. Don't get me wrong, I like her - a lot
Adam
but she's still his wife, ya know?
Derrick
That never stopped me.
Adam
ok, look. We're a start-up, no more than six people on staff. We're cash-poor, but dedicated.
Adam
Everyone, including me, works for sweat equity. We can't afford dead weight.
Adam
I fired Larry at least once a week, but he wouldn't leave.
Derrick
Why didn't u just stop paying him?
Adam
Cause I wasn't paying him.
Adam
He paid his own salary, plus payroll and taxes - in cash.
Derrick
Guess he had some $$$ stashed away.
Adam
Enough to keep his parole officer satisfied.
Adam
No, she just looked at our payroll, taxes - all the drawers in his little desk at his little cubicle...
Adam
If u like the truck-driving Nazi type.
Derrick
They're all my type!
Derrick
So, what was his job title?
Derrick
Did he dev any biz?
Adam
a fleet of barber drones...
Derrick
gives new meaning to 'getting clipped'
Adam
a recycling biz that used steroid injected hamsters to eat waste
Derrick
and clean colons?
Adam
an inventor of shape-shifting dildos
Derrick
That's up my alley!
Adam
He was a loose cannon.
Adam
I had to find a way to cut him off, without implicating myself with the law.
Derrick
So, how'd he leave?
Adam
Just luck, I guess. Or I have a guardian angel.
Adam
One day, his parole officer came for an unscheduled visit.
Adam
She checked our paperwork - all in order --then she checked his desk...
Adam
She found two 12-oz baggies full of weed.
Adam
He was shipped straight back to jail - to serve his full sentence, plus another 5.
Derrick
So, u feel good now?
Adam
Yeah, kinda. It's just weird.
Adam
I don't know how that pot got there. He wouldn't be that careless.
Adam
Still, I'm grateful. Kathy and I are back together. Looks like it could be serious.
Adam
I'd just like to thank whoever put that weed in his desk.
Derrick
You're welcome...old friend...
