“That does sound logical. I remember he said that he was doing his own business when we last met at our class gathering! Ridiculous!” sneered Lucille.
When Gerald was still in junior high school, three of the people in the group were his classmates and the fourth was one of his teachers. They had met him the last time Gerald went back to his old house to celebrate his birthday.
The day they met was coincidentally also Chase’s birthday, and the day Gerald found out that the girl he had liked in high school—Sherry—was now together with Chase.
Gerald had left the gathering early back then since there weren’t a lot of common topics to talk about. What more, Gerald was rushing to celebrate his own birthday as well.
After he left, Chase and the others planned to visit Sunny Springs. However, after having their dinner and arriving there, they found that there wasn’t much to look at anymore.
It was then when Karen had told them to wait for the day her husband needed to accompany his client again. She would be able to bring them along to a five-star golf course then.
All that led to the current events.
“So, Ms. Karen, do you think we should greet him?” asked Lucille.
“Why not? Look over there guys! He’s really picking golf balls for others!” said Karen as she pointed and laughed.
“Hey you! Could you bring that golf ball to us?”
Just as Gerald hung up, a ball rolled up to his foot. Apparently a girl who was practicing her golf club swings accidentally swung it there.
A guy then pointed toward Gerald. He clearly wanted Gerald to bring the ball over to him, so Gerald simply followed his orders.
“The hell? What kind of worker even is that!” said the same guy as he rolled his eyes toward Gerald.
“Oh, honey! Don’t be mad, you’ll scare him off!”
“You’ll have to constantly make use of people like him! If he isn’t disciplined enough, he’ll be cutting slack every day!”
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