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Show 162 at the Forge kax because he was a big strong guy who worked too hard. The foreman told him to slow down and the people he worked with told him to slow down, but when Red slowed down he got bored, so they started giving him the worst jobs like shoveling the hot steel fragments from the pits, but still Red worked like a bastard and xxax finally the Union's dirty man came up to Red and told him he better slow down. "What should I do?" Red asked Whitey. "What should you do?" said Whitey. "Slow down." Back then he still gave a shit about a few things and xaxaik sometimes offered advice. He would have been gigantic like Red if he wasn't so little. "You got something at stake?" said Whitey Loop. "What should I ai do?" Red asked Bush over whiskey and chocolate while waiting for Helen. "What should you do?" said Bush. "Slow down." She looked older everyday. Her^had gone white and she had to have an operation to pull most her teeth. "This isn't kxxsa Russia. You don't get medals for working hard or having babies." "Everybody thinks I should just slow down," Red told Helen. "Then slow down, " said Helen. She had on a black dress with a white frilled collar that swooped down to the top of her breasts. "I can't slow down," said Red. "Then don't slow dov/n. " Red looked at Helen. "Give me a sip of your milk shake," said Helen... Boy, Red hated that. If people wanted milk shake they should get their own milk shake. He'd help them finish it if they couldn't finish it. "I'll have to fight the Union's dirty man," said Red. "Can you beat him up?" "Maybe," said Red. On Monday Red didn't slow down and when the whistle blew for lunch Whitey told him he was in trouble, in^fact Whitey seemed a little nervous and didn't finish his Limburg^and onion on rye so Red had to eat it for him so it wouldn't stink up his lunch box by sitting in it all day, because Whitey wouldn't throw it away xxxa because since the Depression Whitey didn't throw xxax^ax^hixtgx anything away, not even trash, xk you had to take it out of his hands and throw it away for him or eat it. |