As I related in part one earlier, I work with my brother-in-law. We've gotten along like best friends from the get-go, almost as close as brother though it's the girls who are blood sisters. We'd talked for a couple for years about wanting to do something together that would give us the opportunities for the families to live closer together and to grow a business that we could eventually sell to retire early. We ended up taking a hobby we both enjoyed -- woodworking -- and created a custom shop. While we did one-offs, most of our work was designing and manufacturing custom looking products for others on a big CNC router. After six months, we added a CNC laser cutter and the business has continued to grow. Life is good. Power tools on steroids, what guys wouldn't be happy?
When you work in a shop like ours all day long, you realize that there's a lot of waiting around time. Honestly, there's intensity when trying to bid a job, lots of detail work with design, but once that's set the machines pretty much do all the work autonomously. You have to be there, to be sure, but after a while you sort of are attuned to how it sounds when everything is running fine and when there's a problem. Two healthy guys with time on their hands, we both spend more time than is healthy bullshitting, playing computer games, and checking out porn.
I open most of my days by checking out Nudography.com to see which stars are having birthdays and photos of them if they've ever appeared nude anywhere. It's all women, I guess nobody cares if guys have been nude -- or maybe there's a site for that too?
"Wow!" I exclaimed.
Bobby looked over his computer, "What's up?" he asked from the other side of the room. "Did Jascowitz finally say yes to our proposal?"
"Uh, no. Says here today is Allison Richardon's birthday, and..."
"Yeah, I know. I left her voicemail this morning," Bobby replied, his head dropping down again. Bobby's told everyone that he knew Hollywood's number one female action star for years. Just after he got out of the Marines, a buddy had called him to come out to Hollywood, telling him that he could get Bobby in pictures. He was out there about two months, as I recalled, and then came back to South Carolina where he had grown up. He never claimed to have actually been in any movies, but did talk about Allison Richardson, I think just to yank every guy's chain. There wasn't a guy I knew who didn't think Allie was super sexy and had fantasies of what they'd love to do with her, myself included.
"Uh-huh, sure. I hope you told Allie Happy Birthday for me, too. When's she gonna visit again?"
"Fuck you, dickwad," he said good-naturedly without looking up. It had been a question all his buddies asked every time he mentioned his friendship with her. It was general knowledge that she never materialized at his place. I wasn't sure how Rita's sister, Kimberly, would react to that if it ever did occur.
It wasn't like she was jealous, or that wasn't the vibe she gave off. We all went to see every Richardson action flick that had been made, and Kimberly never shut him down when Bobby would start talking about what a nice person she was or that she was much deeper than she appeared on screen or on talk shows. Hey, it's his fantasy.
"Yo, Bro. Says here she did a couple porno films back in the day," I said aloud as I pecked on my computer.
"Mmph," he replied without looking up. "I think I got the piece for that RLD job figured out. Should be able to get about fifteen per sheet...., ah, that put's cost at......looks like 27.83 a piece. If we can get the whole job...." he trailed off.
"Shit," he exclaimed a moment later. "I'm sending this to you. Check it and see if I missed anything. Shit."
I was on my own project, looking online to see if I could find Allie Richardson's porno flick locally. Rita knew I was gaga for the woman, though I wasn't real sure how she'd feel about me staring at Allie's naked body and maybe losing focus on her.
"Fuck!" I smiled, a shop about two blocks over actually had it! Had both of them!
"Yeah," said Bobby, "but check those numbers first."
I quickly opened his email. "Fuck!" I said again. "Is this right?"
"That's what I want you to check, Bro" he said, his head looking over his computer at me.
I went over everything, and then did it again on paper just to be sure. "Geez, Bob, if we could get the whole shebang...." I started, sitting tall and looking over my computer toward him.
Bobby sat up too. "So you get the same numbers?" he asked looking back.
"Abso-fucking-lutely!" I replied.
Bobby's head went down for a second. "I just sent a bid, told them we could do the whole job. Took a little off, but... you should have a copy."
I opened the mail and read it quickly. "Bob, this could finally turn the corner for us..."
He nodded. I could see the smile in his eyes. "We gotta get the job first," he cautioned.
I laughed. "That'll be a whole 'nother level of stress. Might have to talk to Rita about mid-week porn nights..."
"She really likes that, or she just doing it to make you happy?" Then he added, "or is this whole thing just bullshit cuz you get off telling me about all you do with Rita?"
"Bro, you should see it," I smiled. It had become a near constant daydream to have Rita seen by someone, and I knew Bobby had both a bad crush on her and loved her.
"Is that an invite?" his eyes narrowed.