Key West Express

The first time I saw my boss Mark he was yelling at some young waitress, I didn’t  like him much. Most of the people that worked at Nick’s hated him but he was in the owner’s favor for whatever reason.

My name is Matt and I’m basically the handyman, trash, bathroom can fix anything guy. I make some good money so I don’t complain to much. But I’d like to leave town one day. I had my fix of partying and sexual conquests I was ready to settle down on some land somewhere.

Mark continued to abuse many of my fellow workers and I tried my best to just stay out of his way. I watched many girls quit because of his head games and abusive ways.

One day I was just walking down the street when a friend who was working for the local Red Cross came running up to me Yelling “Hey Matty come here Love”.

I get along with everyone so I just entered the big white blood mobile and that was that.

A few weeks later I noticed a card in the mail that I fiqured was a thanks for the Red Cross. I did eventually open it and it had instructions to call an 1-800 number. The call went right through to some Doctor and after confirming my information I was basically told based  on various test they do on the blood I may in fact have cancer.

That night at work Mark was drunk , something you don’t see much. I think I have seen him drunk once at the New Year’s Eve party. I came in and decided not to mention anything to my coworkers. I went about my work list and stopped to take a break and chat with my bartending friend.

Mark is responsible for all the cash.  At Nick’s there’s 9 full bars, a few mini bars, a strip club, a huge concert stage area. Mark’s  main job was to go around collecting money and dropping the start money for the shifts he covered. Obviously the owners trusted him because he was one of the few that had access to the money room where they would count bags of money.

I was watching Mark come around the bar and I thought he may of looked a little tipsy. I just gave a nod and he responded with a ” HEY”. I keeped an eye on him and no further the 10 feet away I look down right behind him and see the grey bank bag. I don’t know what kept me from yelling “Hey Mark”.  I’m usually a pretty honest guy. So I walk over and grabbed  the bag and headed  for the restroom. I enter the stall and see stacks of hundreds. Mark must of just came from the bank and had the weeks payroll. We all got paid cash and you could get paid every night if you wanted so there was always plenty of cash around.

I have to be honest and say that my first thought was to leave town, just take the money and go. Who knows how much time I have left ? What would you do ? I will tell you what happen and what I did next time.

Thanks sorry I don’t write so well.

Did you know if your writing is bad like mine and you kept writing maybe one day it wouldn’t suck so bad LOL

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