Chapter 14 – The start
It was late in the evening on a Friday night. There were no gigs and Danny was in sitting in his room listening to music. The bell rang four times. It was either someone on the phone or at the door. Danny raced down the stairs, jumping down the flights and arrived to find Sally at the door.
Alan had passed out. He was too big for Sally to move. She was wondering if Danny could help her getting him to bed?
Danny went round to find Big Alan sprawled on the floor. He’d slumped out of his chair. All around him was the debris of the evening. There were two empty eight pint Pipkins of beer, an empty bottle of whisky mac, crisp packets and three empty wine bottles.
‘It’s Friday night,’ Sally explained.
Danny must have looked uncertain as to the significance of that.
‘Pay day,’ Sally said. ‘Alan always makes a night of it on payday.’
‘Does he always get as bad as this?’ Danny asked.
Sally looked sheepish. ‘Not always,’ she replied. ‘But quite often.’ She looked sad. ‘Usually I catch him before he passes out. I can help him through to the bed if he’s conscious. But when he’s out like this he’s a dead weight.’
Danny could understand that. Alan was a big man and Sally was a sparrow of a woman. She had no chance. He did not even like to think of her trying to help a drunken Alan through to the bed. He was heavy. She could injure herself.
Together they dragged him through to the bedroom and got him out of his clothes and into the bed. It wasn’t easy. Alan was a big guy and even though Danny was robust and strong it took the two of them. Danny turned Alan on his side so that if he puked he wouldn’t inhale his own vomit. He didn’t want a Jimi Hendrix on his conscience. He left him snoring like a baby.
That was the first of many. Nine times out of ten if Danny was in on a Friday there would be the late ring on the bell and they’d go through the same ritual.
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It’s developing! And you showed the difficulty of the sparrow like Sarah coping with the heavy drunk! Too many situations like this?
Yes. Far too many. But the reasons become clear. Hopefully it all develops more as it goes along.
I’ll try to keep up with it then but wifi access rather intermittent while on my travels!
Where you travelling Georgina?
What’s happened to your novel?
I’d be interested to hear some views on the way it is developing.
Cheers – Opher