Maybe I shouldn’t have made it but
the fish was under-cooked.
That apprentice! D said. I’ll haul him
over the coals.
have his guts for garters.
He’s overstepped the mark this time.
Don’t go too hard on him, I say.
He has a good heart.
A good heart doesn’t cut it in this
business, he said,
I’ll flay him alive.
It won’t happen again.
The next lot is on me.
And he hung up.
I know he was playing it up a bit.
Still, it would be good to see Jarrod
at the grill next week
in one piece.
John Malone 