Sunday, November 30, 2014

Alfred Ostrander III. "Bud"

Alfred Ostrander III was an interesting guy.  He looked like he was in his 50's, weathered ruddy face, balding and was missing all but a few teeth.  Alfred loved the simple things in life, like strippers, pizza and pot. There wasn't a day that went by that he didn't partake of at least one of those three things.  Bud would show up on the job, sit down with a vial of "bud" at 530am and that was breakfast. Needless to say he wasn't a bad sheetrocker, he could keep up just fine despite being stoned and being 20 years older than most of the guys. Bud had a good heart, he would buy company sweatshirts and give them to the dancers at caseys. Well that was fine for a while, but when the owner of the company was in Florida and he noticed a girl that he never met wearing a sweatshirt with his company logo on it, bud wasn't allowed to buy them anymore after that.

He wasn't the best with his finances, it seemed like every month he was on the verge of losing his home. One week he came in all happy, he said he went to the casino, and watched the people playing one armed bandits.  They pumped in money, would get frustrated then leave. He would sit down, put a few bucks in and sure enough he would hit a jackpot. He did that a few times until he had enough to pay his mortgage.  Problem is that only worked the one time.

He would always drive junk cars and trucks, he had his tools stolen from his work truck, so he installed spring loaded hinges on the topper windows.  They thieves came by opened the window only to have it slam back down as soon as the spring released.  He didn't need to worry too long about that, the truck died and the next vehicle he drove was a handicapped bus. The "Bud bus" even had a ramp for a wheelchair, which he tried to sell to various tradesmen.
He came in with dentures after a few weeks of complaining about his teeth hurting. With the nice white teeth he didn't look like the same person. He looked normal, until a day later he dropped them and broke one of the front teeth.  Alfred gave up on them after that.

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