Chapter 69: “What prompted you to start a restaurant?

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Shaniqua said on a subsequent visit. She had become a regular and good friends with the Browns and their children. She came here almost every night and stayed late. Sally joked, half seriously that she should move in.

“Oh...I dunno.” Roy said. "Before I took the engineering degree I was a professional wrestler. That’s how I met Sally. She was one too. We missed the life, some of it that is. Some parts we didn’t miss so much. The constant travel for example and living in hotel rooms. That’s no way to raise a family. Some other parts we didn’t miss so much either. We decided to start something of our own and do it the way WE wanted it done. At first we didn’t do too well but word got around. After a while it took off like a scalded cat.

“Sally likes to cook and fight. I like to eat and fight. So does almost everyone else in the county. We have special nights. " Roy said.

“Ladies night. Kids night. We separate them by weight and skill and we both teach classes in wrestling , physical training, science, engineering and cooking. We have a fairly nice gym.” he said

Shaniqua was giggling. " Engineering and Cooking?”

“Well YEAH!” Roy pretended to be huffy.” and welding.”

“We help out with homeschoolers” Sally explained.”A lot of folks herebouts don’t much trust the government schools anymore. We actually don’t teach much cooking, OR welding. Most of the kids already know how to do that.”

“Or shooting” Roy added "Boy can they shoot. I was thinking about putting in a range but what’s the point? Almost everyone in this neck of the woods carries a hand gun with them all the time. Most of em have long guns in their pickups or boats.”

" What you saw the first time was just plain old regular ‘fight night’. Folks take out their aggressions and settle differences in the ring some times.” he continued.”Its safer here. They can whup on each other with no fear of someone pulling a gun or knife, anyone who does that and I have a little chat with them.”

Shaniqua could just image how the ‘chat’ would turn out.

“We grow most of our own food. We have greenhouses where we grow salads and such. On some of the land we grow rice and crayfish. We have ponds where we raise fish. Not just catfish either. We have several other types on the menu. Dunno what we’ll ever do with the arches though, except look at them..Pretty ain’t they?”

“Yes they are.” Shaniqua said "Will you lease them to me? Oh..say for about a hundred years?

“Roy looked at Sally and laughed.” That a long time.”

“You never know.” Shaniqua said.

“Ain’t that the truth.” Sally replied. She looked at Roy, he looked back at her. They both nodded at the same time.

“Done” they both said at the same time.

“How much are you offering?” Sally asked.”Not that it matters but...paperwork you know.”

“How much do you want?” Shaniqua replied "I was shopping for an apartment tower when I found this. I like this better. I’m going to build me a penthouse high in the sky.”

“You’re one of them huh?” Roy asked.

“Yup...not a billionaire...not quite..but almost.” Shaniqua said.

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