HeyJaredHearts & Drums
Anecdotes of an old lawyer. No real person, living or dead, will be identifiable from the context.
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THE WORDS THAT YOU WRITE (opens the original)
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Dear Reader, There are times when I write things of such a level of potential volatility (in my opinion) that they cannot be published. Not on FB, not on Substack, not even handwritten on A4 exam-pad paper with feint blue-ruled lines and a pink margin and handed to a recipient personally. The only way that they can be communicated to anyone will be by secure email in an individually passworded document with every document having a different password, which will be communicated in Morse code from
MRS WEINBERG AND THE HONDA (opens the original)
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Mrs Weinberg worked behind the cosmetics counter at Clicks Stores in what was then St George's Street in Cape Town City Centre. She was well beyond the official retirement age but she was also one of the original employees of Harry Goldin, the founder of Clicks Stores, and he had as much loyalty to her as she did to him. Mrs Weinberg had no pension plan and lived from month to month on her salary. If she was forced to “retire”, she'd be become a charity case.At the end of every day, she would re
HOSPITAL BLUES (opens the original)
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They don't even bother to put me into the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit anymore - they just roll me into a corner of any available store room, put off the lights and shut the door with a “Good Night, get a fright, maybe the Vampire will feed tonight”!FUCK!!!And in the morning when they open the door I get greeted with“You still here? - Wassamattah wit’ you?Can't you take a hint?FUCK! Was all I could say (again)*¹Hospitals are noisy places, but I already told you that - still, it's all pretty borin
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