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MaxSkinner1		#261	[-]
Posts: 232 (07/21/08 04:05:23) Rogue Trader Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Don't be ridiculous. Would a bloke take you on for life just to make a good impression? I meant it, God help me. God help you, by the same token. What now? Well, we have a plane to catch. I'm taking you for a holiday to England. First class all the way. It might even be nice weather at this time of year...but I wouldn't count on it. Did I tell you, Charlie's getting married and I'm the best man? First, I have to pick my suit up at my tailor's on Savile Row and we need to do some shopping. I want you dressed to kill...the hit is Charlie's sister. You know, my ex-wife? The honourable Christabel Willis...better known as Kiki..? .It's your turn to do me a long overdue favour...Keeks will totally hate you...She's such a snob and she hates any woman who's better looking than she is. Which frankly is half of the female population of the world. Kiki is rather like Adolf Hitler in a dress without the moustache...although I think she was working on the facial hair... It's going to be a perfectly splendid wedding. Who ever imagined Charlie would find a half-decent woman? And a Brazilian model, to boot with legs as long as buggery and bit tits? Of course, she's only marrying him to stay in London and get a work permit, but what the hell? He still gets laid on a regular basis for a change. And Mummy and Daddy willl have coronaries...what delight!. And they thought I was common...Ha! I cannot wait...Isn't life simply perfect...? Winning isn't everything - it's the only thing...
MaxSkinner1		#262	[-]
Posts: 234 (12/04/08 00:41:14) Rogue Trader Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Okay, who's the joker who put this on my desk? Well, I'll tell you all something for nothing...you're dead on. I hate Christmas. So you've more chance of seeing me decked in a red Scrooge suit like this than a Santa costume... Now back to work the lot of you. When I come back in next, you better have those decorations hung and that tree trimmed... Winning isn't everything - it's the only thing... Last Edited By: MaxSkinner1 12/04/08 00:48:58. Edited 1 times.
uma252		#263	[-]
Posts: 941 (12/26/08 01:33:22) The Mistress of the poison pen Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Uma sidles up with a fresh pot of coffee and two cups. She sets them down and puts on her most appealing face Maxie baby? I want to ask a favour. It's about this renovation of Ann and Ralph's place. Don't say anything, Max...just listen. I want you to be nice to them for a change and not cause a stink about the veranda....what veranda? Well, there's this veranda and it doesn't much matter as long as you don't go all shitty on them and threaten legal action. It's Christmas, Max. Goodwill to all men etc., Break a habit of a lifetime and don't play your card just because you can...please...for me? And anyway, it'll be great for our business as well..so win, win, eh? There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart...
MaxSkinner1		#264	[-]
Posts: 235 (12/26/08 01:36:19) Rogue Trader Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	What are you talking about? Have they built an illegal extension? [he rubs his hands together] I bloody hope so. I'll drag them through the courts if they have...is this another Christmas present? Winning isn't everything - it's the only thing...
uma252		#265	[-]
Posts: 942 (12/26/08 01:40:02) The Mistress of the poison pen Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Have you been listening to a word I've said? Let me spell it out in simple terms. You make one tiny objection - you even raise your eyebrows in their direction- and I shall lock the bedroom door until you see the error of your ways. Is that understood? Oh and I've asked Cullen to join us on New Year's Eve. So you better be nice to him as well... There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart...
MaxSkinner1		#266	[-]
Posts: 236 (12/26/08 01:42:38) Rogue Trader Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Yes, darling...anything you say, darling...[ he goes off smirking at the thought of the sexual favours that will now be his if he behaves... and there are still ways he can shaft Ann and her brother if he puts his mind to it....perhaps an anonymous letter to the authorities...?.] Winning isn't everything - it's the only thing...
annsmac		#267	[-]
Posts: 2612 (01/01/09 20:14:41) Lady Godiva Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	When I leave Ralph at the Library, I walk directly to the Phoenix. I cross the veranda, imagining it on the day of our re-opening -- and hope it will be filled with people coming to see not just the Library but also the craftspeople at the booths we will put up here. Yes, I know Ralph thinks he's resolved this by going through Uma. But the truth is, I don't want any problems from Max Skinner. And I know him well enough to know the bastard will never stop trying to be mean and nasty and horrid when it comes to me. He'd so love to screw up our grand re-opening by coming along at the last minute to chase away the people setting up their booths there on the veranda. And I figure that I'm not going to take his crap anymore. Let's face it -- I took on the one man that scared Ben Wade and I won. I walked away from Sergei in one piece, no harm, and got all the information I needed. My books are safe. Sergei is not going to be a threat to any of us. And the last thing Ben Wade could have done to hurt us is history. So, hey, Max Skinner's going to be a cake walk after Sergei. Inside the Phoenix, I look around at the tables and catch myself looking to see if Ben's inside. God. I hate that! I wave at Paul and head for Max's office. He's always in there at this time. I just hope I don't run into Uma. He calls out something quite unintelligible when I knock on his office door. I take a deep breath, square my shoulders and enter the lion's den. Where's Maximus and his sword when I need him? "Max? Could I have word with you?" I say this with as pleasant a voice as I can muster. I even manage a little smile. Not too big a smile -- he'll think I'm up to something. "I just wanted to be sure that Paul told you that while you were gone, he agreed to let us use the veranda as part of the area for our grand re-opening festival. I've brought the plans to show you what we have in mind." He leans back in his chair and gives me that snobby, irritating look of his. I try so hard not to bristle. "If this isn't a good time, I can come back," I say. "Or is now okay?"
MaxSkinner1		#268	[-]
Posts: 237 (01/05/09 07:42:52) Rogue Trader Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Of course it's okay! Why wouldn't I be delighted to receive a visit from you? It's been too long since we had a chat. How's all the arrangements for the Grand Opening? Anything I can do to help? Uma and I were just chatting about it earlier.... Sit down, make yourself comfortable... I'll ring for coffee... Andy has a new apple and hazelnut cake to die for....Ann, if I may be a tad personal? I hope you're not letting all that past nonsense come between us, now that we're all friends and neighbours...almost family, really... Winning isn't everything - it's the only thing...
annsmac		#269	[-]
Posts: 2616 (01/06/09 05:42:27) Lady Godiva Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	He makes me a lot more nervous when he's nice to me than when he's being himself, the mean old bully. But I don't want to blow this -- I have to play it cool. If he can try to con me, I can try to con him. So I take a seat in his office and just look at him for a moment. I feel this odd sense of fatigue; it's like I'm weary of the extra effort -- but I know I can't let my guard down. I even make the effort to smile, but not too big. I think I'm smiling. I can't actually feel my lips -- maybe the idea of smiling at him is just too much. "All right then, Max. If you really want to help, then I'll take you up on that," I say slowly, waiting on him to object or heap scorn on me. When he doesn't, I go on, saying, "We want to use the restaurant's veranda area to put the crafts booths. I realize it would mean we'd have to move most of the tables where your customers can usually sit to look at the ocean, but I do think the increase in foot traffic that day will actually increase your business inside the restaurant and the bar. I won't have any competing food or beverage vendors -- I thought that was the fairest way to go so that when people get thirsty or hungry, they come visit you. If you'd like, we can re-arrange the booth layout to give you space to put your own outdoor bar or food booth." Max unrolls the plans I've brought and does a pretend intense evaluation of them. He does that "hmmm, ahhh, umhmmm" of his. He sips his coffee and insists I sip mine. He makes a few suggestions about traffic flow improvements we could make where the booths are. Actually, I hate to admit it, but his ideas are good. Okay, well, I'll give him that. But I just hate it that he's right, damn him. He even asks if he can work a deal with me that in the ads we're running in the newspaper, if we put his restaurant's logo in there, he'll pay for part of the cost of the advertising. This is most unexpected. I know he must be up to something but I can't figure out what so I agree. Our business concluded, I'm just standing up and getting ready to leave when I go over everything he's said to try to find the holes in this ... and that's when I hear him saying the thing he said when I first came in ... My heart lurches. I turn back toward him and he's smiling smugly at me still. My face must be white. "Max, that thing you said? About us 'being family, really'?" The words stumble from me. "Tell me you aren't trying to tell me that you and Uma ... You haven't gotten married, have you?"
MaxSkinner1		#270	[-]
Posts: 238 (01/06/09 15:04:15) Rogue Trader Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	[There is a half-smile on Max's face at her question] Married? Without inviting you to the wedding? The very idea of it....When the time comes you'll be the first to hear of it, I' m sure. And no doubt you will be first choice for chief bridesmaid.... Isn't that what they call an unmarried attendant of a certain age? [He just can't resist making some sort of jibe. He doesn't even quite know why he does it. Force of habit, really...] ...When I say 'almost family' that's what I mean. One day Uma and I will get married. And when we do, I'd rather not have you set against me like you were against Murphy. Female friends can be the very devil to a relationship... Now, as you can see I have more or less bent over backwards to accommodate you over this opening, when I could have been extremely difficult. I have extended the hand of friendship, the white dove of peace. I encourage you to grasp it with both hands... Well, this has been a jolly useful little chat, Ann, don't you think? I feel so much more positive about the future. Especially now that psychopathic friend of yours has left the building, as it were...lucky escape there, darling. Wade was a total headbanger. And I suspect it wasn't just heads he was banging either, eh? None of my business, of course. But I will tell you this. If he were still in the picture, I wouldn't even allow you on the premises...including my verandah....He set her up, you know. I'll never forget that. I'm not blaming you, mind. You weren't culpable, just stupid, so I'm prepared to let it pass and move on...So glad you called by today, Ann. Drop in tonight. I'll open a decent bottle to seal our new relationship... Winning isn't everything - it's the only thing...
annsmac		#271	[-]
Posts: 2618 (01/08/09 19:49:33) Lady Godiva Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	My God. The man's insufferable. He can't even try to be nice without being insulting! If he could find one more way to put me down, it'd be a world record. That sounds charming, Max, but I'm afraid I have plans tonight. I'll just let myself out ... ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hate him so much!
uma252		#272	[-]
Posts: 945 (01/13/09 01:33:17) The Mistress of the poison pen Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Maxie? What was Ann doing here anyway? Did she come to see you about the opening? I hope you weren't mean to her...if I find out you were behind her meltdown just then..Well, let's just say, I hope you weren't ...and leave Cullen alone as well. He's only trying to help. I've made a resolution to put the past behind me. No more conflict, Max. So there is absolutely no reason why Cullen and I should not be able to be amicable to each other from now on...you've nothing to worry about. Unless you've upset Ann, that is... There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart...
MaxSkinner1		#273	[-]
Posts: 241 (01/13/09 01:41:33) Rogue Trader Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Why do you always think I'm to blame for everything? It's abundantly clear that Wade is the puppet master behind whatever's biting the respective shapely bums of Ann and Franki at the moment. No doubt he was bedding them both and they've just found out. Time for the girls to scratch each other's eyes out, perhaps? Or maybe he ran off with their life savings...who knows? None of our business... ...and as for your weasely ex-husband, I've a good mind to bar him from the premises on the grounds he's a danger to decent women everywhere but seeing as you seem to be on the side of lenience to the no good Fenian bastard for some unacountable reason - and because I would never dream of crossing you in anything - I will hold my tongue for now... ..until the next time he fucks up and I feel obliged to come out with those comforting words...'I told you so..' or are you comparing his situation to that of your delightful parents? If so, you're even more puddled than I thought you were... Uma, he's a rat of the first water...don't be taken in by him! Winning isn't everything - it's the only thing...
uma252		#274	[-]
Posts: 946 (01/13/09 01:49:55) The Mistress of the poison pen Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I know Cullen Murphy better than anyone, so you don't have to take that tone with me, Max. Don;t worry, I'm just tired of fighting, that's all. And I think he is too. He made the effort of coming back and trying to offer the hand of friendship. And he has a new girlfriend who seems to be doing a better job of keeping him in line than I ever did. Give him the benefit of the doubt for once.. ..and leave my parents out of it...thank you very much...And Max, I'm not fighting with you over this. So stop trying to wind me up...I'm more interested in finding out what's going on between Ann and Franki...I'll bet there's some good dirt behind that. Ann used to tell me everything. Now she doesn't trust me with anything... I wish I could lip read... There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart...
SheriffBiebe		#275	[-]
Posts: 858 (01/27/09 19:58:04) Big John Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	John Biebe needs some answers. He wants to know who Phillipe is ... and if there are any answers to whatever it is Clarity's not saying that may possibly be found in her work visa paperwork -- since she had said she'd only planned on working here a short while, he knows she must have come over on some sort of work visa. And he also needs to talk to the one person he knows who knew Clarity in France. That's why John drives straight to the Phoenix from his house. He's called ahead -- and knows Max Skinner is expecting him. When he walks past the bar, he spares a brief nod toward Paul and then he's standing in front of Max's office door. He knocks briskly and then enters. "Max, thanks for seeing me on such short notice. I'll get right to it ... This concerns Clarity ... I'd like to review her employment file. A concern about her official paperwork. And then I'd like to ask you a few questions ... This is official business. Thought it was better if it was me rather than one of the deputies. This way we keep it courteous and efficient." "Not the important ones.."
clarity34		#276	[-]
Posts: 4290 (02/02/09 11:05:27) Burning Ice Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Later, Clarity, looking for Uma, knocks on Max's office door. The Phoenix is noisy already and she can't hear any answer, so she just opens the door… Max, may I come in? I… Oh! Em… I'm sorry… I… I didn't know… I thought… I knocked but… I'll come back… I'm sorry… it wasn't important anyway. What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
MaxSkinner1		#277	[-]
Posts: 242 (02/04/09 17:39:43) Rogue Trader Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Don't mind me. It's only my office...why not invite everyone in and have a party? Sheriff....maybe you'd like to interview the lady now seeing as you're both here? And I'll go and keep my business running...Clarity? Stop listening at the door and come in! [he strides out and leaves the two of them staring at each other in embarassment... Winning isn't everything - it's the only thing...
clarity34		#278	[-]
Posts: 4295 (02/05/09 10:50:36) Burning Ice Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	(Continued in Sheriff Biebe's thread) What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Last Edited By: clarity34 02/07/09 04:57:03. Edited 1 times.
cullenmurphy		#279	[-]
Posts: 18 (02/07/09 03:10:21) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Oi, Skinner...Be a man and stop her before she does something daft...her libido engages faster than her brain...as is best evidenced by her involvement with me and you... A glass of wine, Natalie?
MaxSkinner1		#280	[-]
Posts: 244 (02/07/09 03:16:50) Rogue Trader Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Don't lump me in the same boat as you, Irish...I am not in the least worried if my fiancée chats to a customer. I do not have self-esteem issues. The very opposite in fact. I am secure in my relationship and fear nothing. Least of all a rough and ready Antipodean who has probably not changed his socks in a few months...Uma's a classy bird. She knows what side her bread's buttered... ...and stop helping yourself behind the bar...you are not part of the staff of this establishment... Winning isn't everything - it's the only thing... Last Edited By: MaxSkinner1 02/07/09 03:19:51. Edited 1 times.

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