Thanks to TECHSAN for Editing and suggesting a multi chapter format
Today I stand astride the summit of my success. I know that sound like pompous crap, but that's what I feel like today. My name is Michael Howard, I'm twenty-eight, weigh one sixty eight, have a face that is suntanned to brown, ruggedly handsome, and work as a construction engineer project manager.
I'm right now on top of a twelve story building in Bangkok, Thailand with my company's owner, Mr. Run Seal, and Gen. Subiyat of the Thai Army. We have just completed a power dam up river, and we now have a US aid contract for the dredging of a ship canal on the Irrawaddy River. Those two gentlemen will make multiple millions out of the dredging contract and I will make a few million of my very own.
It isn't bad for a boy that four years ago was staring at his wife's naked ass being fucked by an ex-Green Beret drunkard.
Back then I was an electronic engineer technician for Harris Aircraft maintenance. My wife, Elaine, was then twenty-one; beautiful if you like Anne Hathaway types, and was the only child of Alexander Gershon, one of Rhode Island's US senators.
Our wedding was one of those spectacular events that sometimes show up in People Magazine. The Senator used the ceremony as a campaign production and as a reward for loyal supporters. To give an example of the excess, the rehearsal dinner cost over $75,000 all by itself.
Our first real quarrel occurred at the end of our honeymoon. We had vacationed on Jamaica at the Hedonism Resort. I enjoyed the scuba diving and water activities. Elaine enjoyed the beach and the land activities. We both enjoyed the tolerance of skinny-dipping and nude sun bathing. We had no tan lines at the end of our trip. Our quarreling started when Elaine wanted to extend our stay for an additional week. I had only enough vacation for the two weeks we had been there so I had to go back to work I told Elaine that I trusted her and she could stay with her parents' friend for the extra days but that I had to go back to work. Elaine told me that we could live off of her inheritance but that was unacceptable for me. I had to earn my own way for my self-respect.
Harris Aircraft had low bid into maintenance contracts for several foreign airlines. Those airlines would sometimes have to maintain an airliner with parts that had failed and was therefore not airworthy. A side effect of these contracts was not enough hourly employees working on the maintenance and a requirement for engineering ingenuity. An obvious result of the latter was a spectacular number of hours that I was working. I was pulling sixteen-hour days six and seven days a week. Elaine complained at first but then seemed to accept the hours that I worked as the price of my salary.
One Thursday evening, I came home on time for a change. I hoped to get some action before supper. Well, I got the action, just not the action that I wanted. I came in the house hearing the stereo going full volume. I went to the back bedroom and opened its door. The fucker and fuckee were going so strong that they didn't see me.
I went out to the hall closet, got the Polaroid camera and the camcorder. I took the lens cap off and turned the camcorder on. I then placed the camcorder to watch the pair of them, and then started taking flash pictures with the Polaroid. The fucker got up and clobbered me into the floor and took the Polaroid out to his car in the back alley.
My wife stood over me and told me that I was a worthless wimp and deserved to lie on the floor forever. She went out to the kitchen and waited for me to come to. I got up after a long twenty count, and checked to see if the camcorder had recorded all the action. I got lucky. The camcorder had been on wide angle and there was more than enough tape to record all the fucking and my beating and my soon to be ex-wife's affectionate goodbye.
I took the camcorder out to my car and left to hunt for a divorce lawyer and a police officer. I found the lawyer, Karen Michael, first. She was very hungry for my money, and promptly made copies of the tape at the nearest video store.
I then went to the local police where I filed a complaint against the man who beat me. Turned out his name was Aran Stonya, ex-Green Beret, and all-around drunken brawler. The police hauled him in that evening. The dummy hadn't even thrown the Polaroid camera with its pictures away. My lawyer filed for divorce Friday morning.
Then the great Senator stepped in. He had the juice to get the beater freed and the divorce put on hold.
Senator Gershon told me that I better learn to keep quiet and not embarrass his family. I told Senator Poop Deck that I wanted that bastard who beat me to learn bubba love and the senator's daughter shown for the whore slut that she truly was. The Senator said that I was asking for a dirt nap and left the room.
I was getting smart. I had a new videotape in the camcorder. I leaked the dirt nap speech to the Florida Times Union at 2:30 in the afternoon of the next day. By 6:00 the Senator had the bastard back in jail and offered a good financial settlement for me to leave his daughter discreetly. I turned down the money but agreed that if the Senator paid for the divorce costs and kept the bastard in jail for a year, I would leave town in the night.
At 1:30 in the morning I was on a flight to Mexico City's Juarez airport and some broken down 707s. I worked on aircraft problems for the next six months. My divorce came through in three months but the senator broke part of his word to me. That drunk got out of jail after three months on good behavior. The bastard then married Elaine in a truly grotesque three-ring circus of a marriage that must have set the Senator back a cool million.
While working at the Juarez airport, I got involved in building construction. I developed a relationship with Mexican government officials and Chinese construction contractors. I was particularly a favorite of a Mr. Run Seal.
Mr. Seal owned a construction company. My expertise in integrating electronic repair facilities at modest costs was to him simply adorable. He had me manage a maintenance contract for Mexicana Airline at the Juarez airport. If this had been an American company the Mexican government would have banned the contract but, because of the Chinese corporation's participation, we were good to go.
The next contact was down in Panama. We needed a secure warehouse for containers that were offloaded from the container ships for movement up to the Central American states. I did better than expected and I ran the administration side when the Chinese manager failed to show.
Mr. Seal complemented me on my problem solving. He said, "Mike, you have solved problems without whining or looking for scapegoats. This is unusual, given my experience with Chinese managers. But the most important talent that you possess is the ability to work with people who aren't well educated and don't even speak your language."
"Mr. Seal, I'm grateful that you gave me this chance to prove myself in your eyes."
"Mike, enough ass kissing. We need to work on some big projects. How would you like to work in Thailand and Myramar?"
"I would like that fine, sir, but don't you have family who want those projects?"
"You're sharp. Yes, I have family that wants to be paid, but I want a profit and the ability to go back for more contracts after the first contract. My wallet and I will reward you well for success and not at Chinese income levels. You and I can make millions of dollars a year each."