Ryan gets the go ahead to make Mum pregnant
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For the detail of the story so far -- please see Janet, Chrissie and me Chapters 1 -- 7.
Rose and I had a nice, slow shower together and after dressing each other, it took me a while to get her panties just right as I'd untied them rather than slip them down her beautiful legs the night before, I led her into an empty kitchen. It was 10:30am and I fully expected Janet, Chrissie or both to be waiting to greet us with knowing smiles. I put the kettle on for the first cup of tea of the day.
"I'll just pull the lounge curtains, while the kettle boils," I said, giving my Mother a quick kiss on her lips and patting her pert bottom.
I pulled the curtains and, sure enough, no sign of Mum's car in the hammerhead. It took a little longer to register that my Mother's Mercedes wasn't there either.
"Your car's gone, Mum!" I shouted.
"'s OK Darling. Chrissie took Gerry home in Janet's car and Janet took mine. Didn't think it wise to advertise to Mrs. Johnson that some woman had spent the night alone with that 'nice young man next door' so best not to leave my car outside all night. When we're done here we can go out the back door, down the black path and walk to the shop, OK?"
"Is there anything you two don't think of? What do you fancy for breakfast?"
"We try to cover all aspects. It is going to get complicated over time, y'know. How about another belly full?" she suggested wickedly.
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We settled for a proper full English with me cooking and Rose cleaning up the frying pans afterwards. That's what it said on the paper
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"Have you thought about transport," started Rose, right out of the blue as we sat down to tuck in.
"You mean 'trains and boats and planes'" I sang a la Billy J Kramer.
"Don't give up the day job just yet!" Rose laughed, "no, I mean as in getting about. A car? Chrissie can drive, can you?"
"Chrissie and I both applied for our Provisional licences as soon as we were seventeen. Janet taught us to drive and we both passed with flying colours. We use Janet's car when needed but I can walk or cycle to most places I need to get to and I'm not earning enough to save for a car, yet."
"You're going to need a car soon, so you'd better start thinking about something suitable to ferry your women and families around," she grinned.
"I shall. I've got to contribute to the housekeeping and start to pay my way first. Janet has been keeping Chrissie and me completely. It's time for me to start easing her burden."
We finished eating. I cleared away and started the washing up. OK, Rose had promised to wash up but I couldn't let a guest in my house clear up after a meal so I did it myself. Should have gone with the bowl of cornflakes together with toast and marmalade as Rose suggested.
We left by the back door and through the gate onto the black path.
For those not familiar with the UK, it is criss-crossed with Public Rights of Way and Bridle paths going back many centuries. They are sacrosanct. Builders have to ensure that they do not build over them or restrict access to them. So, the black path was an ancient footpath that connected three ancient Parishes. The middle one had become a large town incorporating the two other Parishes. The original footpath had to remain open to public access. The requirements of the town had to be constructed around it while the path itself remained fundamentally unchanged. It followed the same route as the ancient path, it had simply been modernised with a decent topping of tarmac. Hence 'the black path', which wandered around the out side of the town centre, across the Memorial Gardens and on to the other Parish and beyond. On the way it meandered through a small industrial estate, where the Print Shop was. Ten, maybe fifteen minutes walk to work, five on my bike.
We headed for the Print Shop.
"Hang on Ryan, want to show you something." said Rose as we approached the building.
She led me further into the little estate. I knew of it, obviously but had never really taken much interest in what businesses, other than the Print Shop, were on the estate. It was less than 100 yards. Rose stopped before a large, plain building with no name displayed, just the number... '7'. She pushed open the side door.
"This is where we do the bulk of our printing. Long runs, big jobs. We don't do the 50 business cards here, we do the 50,000 at a time marketing leaflets. Office calendars, company Christmas cards, headed, sequenced invoice pads and the like. This is where the bread and butter stuff is handled. Two of your jobs came down here for printing. More will follow. It's a much bigger operation than the Print Shop suggests, I think?"
"Wow! Yeah, much bigger. That's why I was worried about suddenly having to support more than one family," I laughed.
Rose laughed.
"That's why I said there was plenty of work for you. We want you to spend the next 6 months at the Print Shop getting to know the ropes there. When you're on top of it you'll come down here 2 maybe 3 days a week to get to know what goes on here. You need to fully understand the whole business before you can join the company, near the top. That will take time. The first stage is to have a good feeling of how things work, we fill in the actual detail as we progress. Make sense? Still interested?"
"Makes perfect sense! Still interested? You bet I am! Now I understand why Steve is so long making deliveries."
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We went back to the Print Shop without looking around or talking to anybody. The 6 people I saw were clearly busy and Rose obviously didn't want to distract them. I was to quickly discover that neither Jim nor Rose spent much time 'not working' or not thinking about work.
There were customers waiting when we got back to the shop. I couldn't be of any real assistance so Rose sent me off to the kitchen to make tea while she helped Steve deal with the customers. On the way to the kitchen I passed Jim as he came from the stockroom/my office with a couple of boxes of business cards in his hands.
"Morning lad," he said cheerfully, "there's fresh milk in the fridge."
Jim's subtle way of saying he wanted a mug of tea. Tea and biscuits were served by the newest member of staff once the backlog of customers had been cleared.
"You're going to have to show me how to help in the shop," I said as the last customer left, "can't have me sitting around while punters are waiting about, can we?"
Jim chuckled. Rose laughed.
"You'll do Lad! Monday morning Steve? 'till about 10 or 10:30? That help?" laughed Jim.
Steve grinned.
"A Baptism of Fire? Yeah that'll help a lot." he chuckled, he glanced up at the clock, "OK if I lock up and skedaddle now?"
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"You alright about last night, Lad?" enquired Jim after Steve had left.