This is a true story, really. Everything actually happened to me. Or almost happened to me. Or to somebody. It was a dark and stormy night. Once upon a time in a land faraway. Be warned!
"One Wanton Redhead"
The old pickup looked like a mobile scrap heap. It might have started life as an F1 Ford but hard to see anything that might have been 'original.' Various parts and pieces were evident from the six or so different colored parts including rust and primer. The hood was propped open with a stick. The old Y-block V8 was pouring smoke and steam like a locomotive.
I slowed, then pulled in behind the truck, not at all prepared for the shock of my life.
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Perhaps I should tell you something about myself. At some three years old, I developed a disease called alopecia universalis -- a total loss of body hair. Accompanied with a very high fever I was also in later life to be totally sterile but very highly sexed. I was well above average with an eight inch cock. I could "stay in the saddle" for a very long time, it's just not going to do anything beyond create enjoyment and a dry cum. No hair, slick shiny scalp, actually pretty ugly. For my entire life I was called "Slick" by one and all.
Being "different" from other kids I was picked on, bullied a lot. I grew fast and learned quickly I had to fight to survive. I fought with only one rule, I fought to win. Sure, I lost some but I fought with some fury and the other kids found it cost much pain and decided fighting Slick just wasn't worth the effort.
At age 18 I was up to 6' 1" and weighed 210 pounds -- and was totally on my own. Straight out of high school I found a job working on cars at a local dealership. Not much chance for advancement and low pay. I had found an apartment I could afford, bought a well-used pickup and started life.
I have no formal education or training beyond finishing high school. The one talent given me was being good with my hands. I had a sixth sense when it came to installing and repairing equipment. It seemed I was always watching, listening and learning about things most didn't even see.
If I watched something taken apart I could put it back together and most often make it work. It was just a natural instinctive ability.
After a couple of months, I learned that my boss, the owner's son, ran things in the shop to his benefit. He was a total ass plus he didn't like me.
We had a customer come in with a problem and I recommended a new battery, clean terminals and check alternator. Lyle came over and spoke to the lady, assured her I had tried to 'up-sell' the situation and he would handle it. He told her a battery charge was all she needed and he would give her that for free. I was truly pissed but what could I do? As noted, Lyle was the boss.
Next morning by 10:00 the car was back but a mad husband was driving this time, not the lady from yesterday. His first question was "What idiot told my wife a battery charge was all she needed?" Lyle immediately jumped in my face yelling "I told you to yadda, yadda, yadda...........now fix it!"
I faced Lyle, smiled and gently said "Fuck you, Lyle -- you fix it! Can I draw my pay now or do I need to pick it up tomorrow?" I rolled my toolbox out of the shop and was loading it into my truck when Mr Meyers, the principal owner of the dealership, came up and stopped me.
"Slick, come back in and bring your tools. I just told Lyle to leave you alone, let you do your job. And I don't want to lose you. I'll give you a $0.25 an hour raise. How about it?"
"Mr. Meyers, you've been good to me and I like the job, most of it. Now you fire Lyle and give me $0.50 raise and we'll talk about it. No? Thought not. So long, Mr. Meyers."
Now unemployed I went looking for a job. There were many many jobs in the West Memphis area but few really good jobs. And I was looking for a great one.
After two weeks looking and checking I found Dreyfus in West Memphis was looking for help. I managed to pass the preliminary evaluations for a position as a Mill Wright. Imagine that!
They scheduled me for an interview at 9:30AM Thursday. I arrived at 8:40 in the middle of a driving rainstorm.
I'd been sent to the repair shops for the interview and not to the Dreyfus offices. The interview was to be a 'hands on' test to allow demonstration of my skills.
After inviting me in out of the rain and offering coffee the lead man told me the foreman doing interviews was not yet on site but was expected shortly.
The lead noticed my interest in a disassembled unit spread out on a workbench with two people arguing about it. "Know what that is?" he asked. "No sir, but it looks like a motorized flow control valve of some sort."
"Yes sir, that's exactly what it is. Think you could put it back together? Make it work again?"
"I didn't see it taken apart but I can try. Do you have a manual or schematic for the unit? Spare parts???"
Half an hour later, I had determined how the parts went together and what had failed. I then told the lead why I thought it had failed and why with two new pieces it would work again.
The lead then told me he had been a bit less than honest with me as he was really the plant floor supervisor. He told me his name was Ed Clinton and shook my hand, saying, "Oh, yeah -- the job is yours. Can you start tomorrow?"-
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Now back to the broken down truck.
I found the driver sitting on her ass in the shade of the old Ford. Short sleeve man's shirt, tied at the waist over her bare tummy and old cut-off jeans. On her feet were badly worn sneakers, actually high top tennis shoes, and no socks.
"It ain't gonna start 'til it cools off. You'll just run the battery down if'n you try."
"So," I asked, "What are you going to do -- just sit here and wait?"
"Well, I don't see much else I can do. What would you do?"
"Not much choice as I see it. I know a fair bit about the old Y blocks and they are contrary as Hell. How about this? I was on my way home and its not very far. You come home with me, we have something to eat and about dark I'll bring you back to get the truck. How does that sound?"
She looked at me like I had three heads and said nothing for a few seconds. Then she shook her head and said, "God, you're ugly! What the hell happened to you? What's your name? What's in it for you? Why would you do this for somebody you don't even know? Well, answer me!"
"I will, if you'll shut up and give me a chance! My name is Hinkle, Clarence Hinkle but please don't call me that. You can call me 'Slick' as everybody else does. And there is nothing in it for me. I see someone in need and I offer my help. Now get in if you are going with me, or stay here if you like."
"We'll fuck, I guess I will." She was in my truck in a flash. I noticed she seemed to have nothing with her, no bags, not even a purse.
"Jennifer Maureen Bracken" was a hill girl the likes of which I had never seen. I never once called her or heard her called anything other than "Red" or "Big Red." She had a mane of shoulder length red hair, fiery red hair, thick and curly. Her eyes were amber with green specks. Oh, and she was BIG! Not fat, not gross but big. She was at least five feet ten or so and 155 to 160 pounds but in perfect proportion. Her tits stood high and proud, and were either DD or DDD -- perfectly luscious.
As I learned more about her she told me she had never worn, indeed, never owned a bra. Did I mention she had red hair, lots and lots of red hair. I was to learn her carpet matched the curtains for sure, I've never seen a thicker, redder bush before or since.
Red was exactly what she said she was, no pretense. She loved to drink beer and she loved to fuck, lots and lots of both with no holds bared. C'est le vie, non, c'est le guerre. Red had much in common with the French Foreign Legion, she won some, she lost some but she took on all comers, on her terms.
"Live and learn" so they say and boy, how much I had to learn about this woman.
Red grew up in far western Arkansas, and she grew up rough and fast. When I first met her she was just past twenty one and by her admission, she liked to drank beer and she loved sex, "Cold beer and hot sex for me!" was one of the first things I ever heard her say.
How or why she ever picked me I'll never know, much less understand. "You should have known better" you may say. And yes, I knew if you dine with the devil you must use a long handled spoon! Perhaps I was blinded by all that shiny red hair.
At this late date it's probably of no matter. But select me she did, and oh, we had some times!
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We came to the apartment and Red stopped as I held the door for her. "Are you sure," she asked?
I shrugged and motioned her in. We talked a bit as I whipped up a meal of ham, eggs and grits along with my special biscuits. She ate like she was starved.
"When did you last eat anything?" She told me she had a candy bar yesterday as she buttered another biscuit. Her fourth, but who's counting?
Red told me more about herself as we ate, rather as I watched her eat. She was on her way to claim a job she had heard about at a 'resort' in Hornbeak, TN. No, she didn't have a written offer but she had 'heard about it.' And she had some money, she had eleven dollars. Oh, yes, and a truck that didn't run when it got hot.
Heaven help me. How do I find myself in these situations?
Right at sundown we went to retrieve her old truck. The battery was weak so I jumped her off. The engine sounded rough and I couldn't imagine her on the express way in that wreck.
"Follow me back to my place and you can spend the night. We'll worry about the truck and work on it tomorrow. Stay on me, I won't run off and leave you."