Billy finished tightening the last bolt along the exhaust system of the freightliner. He was the best truck mechanic they had. Billy came up the hard way without having a formal education. He wasn't dumb by any means but he just wasn't good with books.
"Billy . . .! Are you just about done working under that thing? I need you to bring that red truck inside before you go home tonight. I want to get a fresh start on it in the morning. I told Frank he'd have his rig tomorrow . . ."
"OK Mr. Jones . . . I'll be done here in a minute and bring it inside the building before I leave."
Billy wiped his hands thinking about Mr. Jones, his new boss. He was the first black man Billy ever worked for in his whole life. Mr. Jones could be a little pushy and demanding at times. Mr. Jones seemed to be pushing Billy at times, testing him.
Billy was good working on the trucks. He just had trouble reading books. He'd got his job five years ago when a good friend of his family hired him on to work for the company. Billy knew he wouldn't be able to pass any book tests, but they gave him a break and now he was their best truck mechanic.
Billy didn't hear anything and assumed Mr. Jones walked back to his office and slowly rolled the creeper out from under the truck.
Mr. Jones was standing next to Billy's tool box starring at pictures that Billy had posted of his wife, Daisy.
Billy got up from the creeper and finished wiping his hands as he watched Mr. Jones examining the two pictures of Daisy hanging from the tool box.
"My Lord Billy . . .! Tell me whom this pretty blonde in these pictures you have posted here? Is she your sister or something?"
"That's my wife, Daisy . . . Sir. We've been married for five years now!"
Mr. Jones pealed the picture off the tool box and took a closer look at the blonde woman in the picture. The picture showed Daisy wearing a black bikini when they visited the beach last summer.
"You have any kids?"
"Uh . . . Mr. Jones . . . We don't have any kids yet. We're going to start trying really soon. We were hoping after my next raise."
Mr. Jones kept holding the picture of Daisy, taking note of her large breasts and long slim legs and the tiny waist she had. Daisy's long blonde hair which was enhanced by her black bikini.
"Billy . . . Would you mind if I take this picture back to my office? I'll put it back in your tool box before I leave tonight."
Billy was surprised as he wondered why Mr. Jones wanted Daisy's picture. He wanted to tell the man to put it back but he was afraid of losing his job and hesitantly replied.
"Yeah. That would be fine, Mr. Jones."
Billy watched the tall black man walk back to his office with his wife's picture in his hand. He figured the man never been with a white woman before and was going to fantasize a little before going home tonight.
Billy felt uncomfortable about letting him have the picture but figured it wouldn't do any harm letting the man get a few thrills.
The very next morning, Billy checked to make sure Mr. Jones had brought back the picture of his wife and sure enough, it was hanging in the same spot again.
Later that morning, Mr. Jones called Billy over the intercom system to report to his office. Billy was smeared with oil from a bad leak he was fixing but crawled out from under the huge semi truck and wiped his hands off the best he could before entering Mr. Jones office.
"You called me? Mr. Jones?"
"Billy. I called your wife and she's on her way here with your lunch. I told her how you forgot it this morning and she was nice enough to bring it here for you."
"Mr. Jones . . . Uh . . . I have my lunch in my tool box out in the shop. I didn't forget it."
Mr. Jones had a surprised expression on his face as he replied, "Billy. I think I got you confused with Ted out there. I'm really sorry about that. Well, your wife is on her way here with a lunch for you so we just won't tell her about the mistake I made and get her mad."
Billy didn't really know what else to say as he wiped the oil off his hands. He happened to glance down at Mr. Jones desk and saw a duplicate picture of Daisy in her black bikini.
Mr. Jones saw him looking at the picture and quickly came to his own defense.
"Oh . . . Uh . . . Billy. I hope you didn't mind that I made a copy of this wonderful photograph of your wife. She is a lovely woman and thought I'd just make a copy for myself."
Billy could feel the anger building in his system but didn't want to piss off Mr. Jones and lose his job.
Mr. Jones could see Billy's displeasure and quickly spoke in his own defense again.
"Billy . . . You know, we'll be talking about that raise you were expecting. I'm very pleased with the good work you have been doing here. We'll get together on that later this week. You can go back and finish what you were doing and I'll give you a call when your wife arrives here."
Billy didn't say anything, but walked out of Mr. Jones office with disapproval written all over his face.
Daisy pulled into the parking lot and combed her long blonde hair in the mirror. Daisy applied a fresh coat of lipstick and smacked her lips before getting out of the car and walking up to the office with the little lunch bag in her hand.
Daisy wore heels most of the time and today wasn't any different. Her hips swayed in her tight jeans and her blonde hair waved in the wind as the two men working on a truck tire smiled at her as she walked past them.
The tight pink sweater she was wearing made her boobs appear extremely large, which they were.
Daisy walked into the reception room where she found Mr. Jones waiting for her. Mr. Jones had a devilish grin on his face as he smiled at the attractive blonde woman.
"You must be Daisy! ....Billy's wife?"
"Yes . . . I'm Daisy! ....You must be Mr. Jones . . . Billy's Bose?"
"Yes . . . I'm Mr. Jones . . . Please: Come in and sit down, . . . "
Mr. Jones had his eyes focused on the beautiful young housewife as she sat in the chair in front of his desk holding the little brown lunch bag in her hand.
Daisy was beautiful. She met Billy while in school back in Alabama, and dropped out in the eleventh grade to marry Billy. Daisy could be any man's dream as a trophy wife as long as she kept her mouth shut.
Daisy was smacking gum in her mouth as she looked and smiled at Mr. Jones. She was naive about most things and in most cases, one would think she had a mind of a thirteen-year-old.
Daisy's body had twenty-two written all over! Mr. Jones sat in his chair and rolled it around the corner of his desk until he was faced directly in front of Daisy.
"Daisy . . . I would like you to call me Frank. I'm very glad I have this chance to meet with you concerning your husband. Don't get me wrong! ....He's a good worker and one of my best."
"Oh . . . What's wrong with Billy? ....Is he in trouble about something?"
"Well . . . It's not exactly his work that has been troubling me here lately. I was looking over your husband's employment records and it seems as though he never finished high school!"
"Oh . . . Frank . . . Billy is a smart man and he knows everything about working on those big trucks you have here. Why, he can figure just about anything out, when it comes to those big engines."
Frank pulled out Billy's employment records from a drawer and scooted his chair in front of the desk to show Daisy.
"You see, Daisy . . . Billy never finished high school and I'm afraid our requirements state that our employee's must have a high school education. If this were to get out to the other employee's here or to people we turned away that didn't meet our requirements, well . . . All sorts of things could happen!"
Frank was starring at Daisy's tight pink sweater and could see she was wearing a black bra underneath it. He gave Daisy the papers to look at and his hand brushed against her soft hand when she reached for the papers.
"Frank, my husband can do his job and he's not afraid to go back to school if he has too."
"Daisy . . . I'm afraid I will have to let your husband go . . . I'm so sorry about this but I can't take a chance having someone find out about this mistake."
"Frank . . . My husband needs his job . . . What would we do for money if he lost this . . . My husband is a very hard working man . . . There must be something you could do to help him . . . Please . . . Frank . . . You can't let this happen!"
Frank knew he had Daisy hooked but wanted her to swallow the bait, sort of speaking.
"Daisy . . . I'm afraid that if this ever got out to someone we turned down for a job because of their schooling than I may face a lawsuit. Surely, you understand my position on this. I'm really sorry about all this."
Daisy began to cry as she leaned forward and put her hands to her face. She looked up at Frank with pity as she pulled a napkin out of her little purse.
"Please . . . Frank . . . There must be something for my husband?"
Frank looked at Daisy with pity in his eye's than got up out of his chair and took the little brown lunch bag she had been carrying for her husband and took it out to his secretary to give to Billy and told his secretary that he would be in a meeting and didn't want to be disturbed. He walked back into his office and locked the door.
"Daisy, will you follow me into my meeting room so we can talk?"