First started working with Locke in 1992. He would be standing in the homeowners driveway in his barefeet with a quart of Sierra Nevada on the table saw half gone, measuring the next cut. He wore old blue jeans and a button up shirt with the top three buttons undone.
His body was rock solid, he stood six foot two and must have been a foot and a half thick. He had a reputation up in the hills where he lived for wild living. Wrecked motorcycles, pregnant girls, a whiskey still that burnt down a house.
It’s been fourteen years now, and he’s nearing sixty. Locke wears boots to work these days. And a lot of the muscle is gone. He doesn’t drink quarts of beer on the job anymore. But he still does good work.
Jon Boy, I need a favor…
Comment by e. march — October 7, 2006 @ 8:27 pm
yes…?
Comment by jon — October 8, 2006 @ 9:49 am
I’ll email it to you…check your gmail account.
Comment by e. march — October 8, 2006 @ 7:55 pm
So that’s Locke, huh? Good to know…
Comment by e. march — October 9, 2006 @ 7:26 am