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[cautionarytale]

I'm taking a survey.

What did everybody do for a job before, you know, coming here?


[private to Howie; added later]

I think I had girl talk. Does that count as making a friend?

Comments

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

Not a strictly legal one.

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

What was it?

private

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

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Drugs, mainly. Although there were plenty of related areas of business.

private

[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Is selling drugs... hard? I mean, what do you have to do?

Re: private

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

...it's a lot of fucking work. You've got to cover your arse well enough not to get caught, or at least be able to pin it on someone else, at every single stage. Then you need to establish a 'patch'. Although, what I preferred to do, was establish lots of little patches. Sold them through my son's pub, sold them to people who came to me.

Then there's other gangsters. Then there's keeping yourself armed and protected, because the fucking pigs could come nail you at any minute. Then there's keeping your stock somewhere safe - but somewhere where they won't be found, because if you're found with those kind of quantities, you're going down for a long fucking time.

And then there's the odd nutjob who wants revenge.

It's not easy, but it's fucking worth it.

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[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Why's it worth it?

Re: private

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

Not just because when you're good at it, you make a shit ton of money. There's control, there's power in what you do. If you do it right, you're bigger and better than the law. I've owned coppers.

People respect you. People are afraid of you and people fucking listen when you tell them what's what.

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[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Cool.

Re: private

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

It fucking is.

Talking of which, if you're ever short of booze or cigarettes, come to me. I can sort something out for a price.

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[lt-n-uhura.livejournal.com]

No, you will not.

What you do is not "cool." Stop selling it as such.

Re: Private

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

Oh... shit. I forgot you cou... fuck.

Hey, I was honest with her. She made that decision herself.

Private

[lt-n-uhura.livejournal.com]

I don't care about that part, Paddy. I care about your offer to sell things to her.

Your days as a dealer are OVER.

Re: Private

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

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It was a casual mention. Come on, someone's going to be the go-to man around here, why not me?

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[lt-n-uhura.livejournal.com]

Because I said so.

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[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

...A brilliant moment of fucking reasoning from the warden there.

Private

[lt-n-uhura.livejournal.com]

When you stop listening to reason, I stop giving it.

Private

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

...fuck you.

Re: Private

[lt-n-uhura.livejournal.com]

Stop being a child.

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[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

I'll keep that in mind.

Re: private

[christ-onabike.livejournal.com]

...

Sorry, forgot the warden can read this shit. My bad.

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[cautionarystory.livejournal.com]

Oh well.