CHAPTER 4

i didn't have anything special to do so i went down the can and chewed the rag with him while he was shaving. We were the only ones there, due all the other sunovabitches being down at the goddam game.stradlater was in the middle wash basin, god was he good looking. Anyway I sat down next to him and started to turn the cold water on and off... it was a stupid habbit i had when i was nervous!! One thing i hate is whistling especially when the person whos doing it can't do it very well and guess what.. stradlater was doing it to Song of India.

You should see the rusty shaver that stradlater was using it was full of lather and hairs and any other crap you can think of!!

Anyway i was sat there listening to him whistle his crapy song, when the goddam fool turned to me and said do me a favour, as soon as he said it i should have said no but instead i said what? the goddam cheeky sunovabitch asked me to do a compositon for him!!!!! so like the crazy fool I am, i said i would do it if i had time.

After a while i got bored of listening to stradlater and decided to do a tap dance, dont ask me why i just had the urge to do one. It was in my GODDAM BLOOD.

Moments in to my tapdance stradlater asked me where i had got my red hunting hat from. I had bought it this morning in New York i told him, which i had. the best thing was it was dirt cheap, a buck to be exact.

I changed the subject and asked him who is date was. I asked him was it fitzgerald and he said no. so I simply stated that she was my type of woman, and do u no what the cheeky sunovabitch said, take er shes to old for you!! well i flipped and got him in a half nelson. He really wasn't in the mood for horsing around so he broke my nelson grip quite easily he was a lot stronger than me.

I asked him again who his date was and he replied Jean Gallagher!! well i nearly dropped dead when he told me her name. She had been my neighbour the year before last god was i excited when i heard her name. Jean was a girl I had really liked and to sum degree still do to this day. I told stradlater all about the good times I had spent with her.. to be honest i dont think the phoney was even listening. Anyway i continued to tell him any way all about the how we played checkers together and how she placed all her kings on the back row. I asked him several times to ask her whether she still did it now. He said he would but I new he was lieing.

Once stradlater was ready to leave he put on MY hounds-tooth jacket adn left .. the goddam idiot was gona stretch it he was much broader than me!!!

I was sat there thinking about stradlater and especially Jean Gallagher on a date... when Ackely the scruffy so and so barged in through the shower curtain. Boy was i glad to see him...