I'm a sixty year old retired widower with completely gray hair, a little paunch and live in a very nice three bedroom house in Wichita, Kansas. I drive the obligatory, for guys of my age, late model Mercury Grand Marquis. Everyone tells me I am a good-looking guy who has aged well.
If I were trying to describe my interests I would only have to mention two. Travel and reading. I got away from buying the Book of the Month selections and now get most of my reading material from the nearby public library.
I was coming out of the library a few months ago and ran smack into a ton of police cars. The two almost blocking the library doors were from the Sheriffs office and I knew one of the deputies very well.
"Hey Jim, what the hell is going on. Did you come over here to get that instructional book on how to be a good cop?"
"Stuff it Gramps." He replied with a laugh.
"What's going on with all of this power?" I queried him.
"Aw, we got a report that some gal we are looking for was spotted here."
"Well, I just came out of the library and only saw a few kids in there. She might have been down one of the rows I didn't see."
"Thanks, we'll take a look see."
As I was walking to my car out of the corner of my eye I noticed some movement near a Dumpster used by the variety store next to the library. Another few steps and I could see it was a gal in her early twenties and she was obviously trying to hide. I kept right on walking and when I got near the Dumpster I said in a low, but as clear a voice as I could muster.
"I will be pulling my silver Grand Marquis near this trash can in a few minutes and the right rear door will be unlocked. You will have about three seconds to open the door, dive in and pull the door shut behind you. You will then lay low on the floor behind my seat taking a travel blanket lying on the rear seat and pulling it over you. We can straighten all of this out once we get away from here."
That all went like clockwork and as I was driving out of the lot I lowered my window and waved at Jim, the deputy, and wished him luck apprehending the gal they were looking for. He just yelled over at the other deputies checking out the cars leaving the lot,
"The old guy's OK, let him pass." I laughed and gave him the finger.
We got about a mile down the road and I heard a small voice from behind me,
"Why the hell are you helping me. You don't know me from Madonna."
"Good, cause I wouldn't help that bitch at all.
"Then tell me 'why me'"
"Well honey, when I was your age I was in more trouble than I could even think about. If it weren't for some people giving me a helping hand back then I would probably be in the pokey right now."
"Are you this nice to every one in trouble?"
"Nah, just the ugly ones."
I felt her bang against the back of my seat and laugh, "You're something else."
"Look honey, I live a mile from here in a house with an attached garage. I am going to head there and you can get out of the car inside of the garage and enter the house unobserved. We can talk about all of this there and not have to worry about the law spotting you."
"OK sounds great but I still don't know why you are helping me."
I used the electric garage door and opened and then closed the door as soon as we were safely inside.
"OK, Ms. Dillinger, you can get out now."
The door from the garage leads into the kitchen and I told her to grab a chair at the kitchen table.
"Want a Coke or anything?" I offered.
"Yes, I would, thank you." She replied.
"All right honey. Now tell me what this is all about."
"It's not as bad as you are probably thinking. I think I broke my boyfriends shoulder and probably his arm too. And then I might have also broke his leg as well."
"Geez, did you leave anything on him unbroken? Tell me what happened."
"Well we had a big argument about other girls I think he is seeing while he is telling me that I am the only girl in his life and he punched me in the stomach and then pushed me against the stove in a fit of anger."
She pulled up her T-shirt to show me the bruise.
"Hold it right there and let me get a picture of that for you. The mark will fade in a few days and you won't have any proof of his attack."
I got a photo of that with her holding that day's newspaper to show the day the pic was taken.
"I got upset with him treating me that way and grabbed a cast iron frying pan off the stove and hit his shoulder with the edge of it. I swung it as hard as I could and could hear the bones breaking as it hit."
"Whew, you don't fuck around when you get angry do you?"
"He reached for my hair and pulled it hard and I swung again and hit his arm and heard a bone crack there too. He fell and then kicked out at me and I took another swing and hit his shin with the edge of the frying pan and heard a bone snap there too."