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Nobody's Fool

Nobody's Fool

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Autoren: Richard Russo
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he sighed. “I’m tired of arguing with you.”
    Officer Raymer was standing guard outside the OTB when Sully and Will pulled up in the £1 Camino, ignored a perfectly legal parking space and backed into the striped triangle clearly marked NO PARKING . The policeman sighed visibly. In the past couple weeks he’d written Sully half a dozen parking tickets even though the El Camino wasn’t his car, even though the policeman knew it belonged to Carl Roebuck, who was in tight with the chief of police and could fix any tickets that Officer Raymer wrote. By ignoring the legal parking space, Sully was taunting him. And it was only the beginning.
    â€œLet’s have some fun,” Sully said to Will as they got out of the El Camino. Then, louder, “Say hi to that big ugly fellow in the uniform.” Will smiled weakly, said hello.
    The policeman did not look at the boy or acknowledge that he’d been spoken to. Instead he glared at Sully murderously. “Don’t start in,” he warned.
    â€œHey,” Sully said, holding up his hands, as if in surrender. “I just want you to clarify something for me. There’s one little thing that confuses me.”
    â€œDon’t start.”
    â€œNo, really. I just want to understand. Correct me if I get the details wrong, okay, because I wasn’t there.”
    Officer Raymer turned away, looked up the street in the other direction. Two men on their way into the OTB stopped to listen.
    â€œSo,” Sully went on. “You’re asked to go see about a disturbance. You drive up, and what do you see? There’s a man standing in the middle of the driveway with a deer rifle and he’s shooting out windows on a residential street. Now correct me if I’m wrong, but … that’d be against the law, right?”
    Officer Raymer turned back to study Sully, noticed that the two passersby had stopped to listen, said nothing.
    â€œA good-looking girl comes up to the guy with the rifle, so he clubs her with the gun, breaks her jaw in about fifteen places, then kicks her once or twice for good measure. That’d be against the law, wouldn’t it?”
    â€œHe done that before I got there,” the policeman said. “I never saw him hit her.”
    Some more men on the way into the OTB also stopped now.
    â€œOkay,” Sully said agreeably. “That’s what I mean. I just want to understand how it happened. So you pull up, and the guy with the gun is standing over the girl with the broken jaw who’s lying on the ground. And he’s pointing the rifle at her and saying what he ought to do is just blow her brains out. That’d be against the law, wouldn’t it?”
    â€œDefinitely,” said one of the two men who’d stopped first.
    The policeman glared at the man who’d spoken for a moment before turning his attention back to Sully. “I’m going to give you about ten seconds to get the fuck away from me, Sully.”
    Sully consulted his watch. “So what do you do? You let the guy with the rifle take a little girl, get back in his truck and drive away.”
    â€œIt was a domestic dispute. A judgment call. They picked him up ten minutes later, for Christ sake.”
    â€œA judgment call,” Sully repeated.
    Officer Raymer knew his mistake now. It was allowing himself to be drawn into this discussion. “You should try being a cop for about one day, Sully,” he said weakly.
    Sully was grinning, and so, slyly, were the men who’d gathered. “A judgment call,” he repeated as he turned to head into the OTB. “You take care now, Officer.”
    â€œI hope you don’t ever catch fire and have me standing nearby with a hose,” the policeman said to Sully’s retreating form.
    â€œThat’s where you’d be, all right,” Sully said over his shoulder. “Off at a safe distance, holding your hose.”
    Inside the OTB were clusters of the windbreaker men, though most of these were now wearing their post-Thanksgiving heavy outerwear, and Sully spotted Otis right away due to the white bandage behind his ear.
    â€œOh, God,” Otis said when he became aware of Sully standing in the doorway and grinning at him maliciously. Instead of having to deal with Sully once, midmorning, at the OTB, now, since Sully’d started working mornings at Hattie’s, he got a double dose. Sully’d warned him against

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