Delivery Time
If you’d seen the size of his bleedin’ house, you wouldn’t believe it. It’s in one of those leafy suburbs way out North, past Belisize Park. Not so much house as a mansion. Like the place that JR geezer lives in Dallas. Only in Belsize Park instead of Dallas.
How’d he manage to make so much bleedin’ dosh, that’s what I’d like to know? I mean, have you seen the stuff he does, on the telly? The Frankie Fischer Show. Family Fun Time. Bloody rubbish. It’s what I call telly for grannies. Old women seem to love him. They think he’s having affair with that blonde girl on his show, Shirley something. They think he’s a nice, clean-living young man and they all want to mother him. Yeah, well, they wouldn’t think that if they knew what I know.
Anyway, I dropped off the stuff as per usual. Frankie himself wasn’t there. It was that bald geezer, Tom, who’s his ‘manager’ or something. Miserable git. Gives you one of those looks down his nose as though you smell like old socks. Anyway, what’s it to me? I’m only the delivery boy. I just drop off the stuff and I collect my wage. I have to say that I wonder though, sometimes, what it would be worth if I decided to sell my story - to The Sunday People or The New of the World. The stuff I could tell them would be worth a fortune, I bet! But then again, it wouldn’t be worth the hassle. I’m doing all right as I am and there are people in this business who you wouldn’t want to get on the wrong side of. I don’t only mean the top guys like Mr King. I mean the local mob. Some of them are really hard bastards. They’d break your legs just for the fun of it. It’s not a risk I’d want to take. Like old Max says, ‘Discretion, my son, is the better part of valour,’ which means, apparently, that when you’re in this line of business it’s safest if you keep your mouth shut before someone takes it into their minds to shut it for you.
One thing people can rely on with me is that I don’t blab. That’s why I keep getting the work. I’m good at my job.
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