Having a coffee and a smoke and enjoying life..

G'Morning.

Coffee is ready..

My wife telling me that we won the Lottery...

Quigley Down Under

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Remove yourself from my presence, Warrior. This spot is MINE.

No its MINE...

1.I am grateful for having finally passed my Class A test..

2. For my wife who put up with me while I was in school and never came home in a good mood.

Been away for a bit but now I am back in last place..

It was a beautiful Saturday in June when I received a call from dispatch. It seems a bus driver had three youngsters on her coach that were a little too young to be on their own. The female driver had called her dispatcher who in turn dispatched me. I was to intercept the bus and wait for the parents to arrive. I caught the bus on a regular layover and had the kids exit the coach. It seems...

Added 09 Sep 2018 | Category Flash Fiction | Votes 1 | Avg Score 5 | Views 108 | 1 Comment

Warning: Very coarse language used in two places. One of the best jobs I held prior to my days in law enforcement was working for an armoured car company. I drove an older armoured truck that would take a tank to dent. The hours were good and the pay was decent. It was one of the only places that I would come into work on my off days if asked. We spend our days picking up and delivered...

Added 30 Jul 2018 | Category Flash Fiction | Votes 1 | Avg Score 5 | Views 127 | 2 Comments

So here I am limping my way into the local ER. It was a typical bar fight, and as a bouncer, I had to intercede. The antagonist decided to flee before the police arrived and I decided to chase and hold him. In the semi-darkened street I misjudged the height of the curb and stumbled, but I ignored the pain in my foot and kept moving. I caught him and walked him back to the front of the bar...

Added 22 Jul 2018 | Category Memoirs | Votes 0 | Avg Score 0 | Views 107

Now despite being divorced from my first wife I stayed in contact with her and her daughters.I even offered to assist in keeping them off of each other's throats during the Summer vacation from school. So every week on one of my off days I would pick one of the two girls up and take them for a long motorcycle ride and lunch.  Both girls loved my Harley and loved to ride. I would show...

Added 19 Nov 2017 | Category Micro Fiction | Votes 1 | Avg Score 5 | Views 303 | 1 Comment

This is a true story. It has been told many times and always gets a laugh. Now it was a typical Saturday morning at our house. It had to be sometime before Memorial Day because my parents were still at home, normally they are at our cottage. My mom who is a habitual early riser headed to the kitchen to make coffee and let the big orange and white cat up from the basement.   She opened...

Added 23 Jul 2017 | Category Memoirs | Votes 0 | Avg Score 0 | Views 307

I remember it was the year that I finally won the lawsuit that I had filed four years ago.  It was a very sizable amount of money and to celebrate I quit my job. I then contacted my stunning model friend and asked if her numerous offers to visit and stay with her in Fort Lauderdale were still good, and they were. To this day there are still people that believe that we were having sex. No...

Added 28 Jun 2017 | Category Humor | Votes 1 | Avg Score 5 | Views 444 | 1 Comment

Long before I was sworn in a full-time police officer, I spent many years as a security officer. Now security officers or rent-a-cops don't hold a real high slot in the hierarchy of law enforcement due to a variety of reasons. Most of the time they are just warm bodies in blue uniforms. They receive no formalized training. And usually, it's a company supervisor that instructs new hires in...

Added 28 May 2017 | Category Humor | Votes 1 | Avg Score 5 | Views 481 | 1 Comment

Darlene had barely walked into the employee entrance door when she was grabbed by the arm by Gina, her friend, and co-worker. "Dar, that guy that was asking about you last week is back," she announced excitedly. Darlene continued to head to her locker to get ready for the evening as her friend prattled on. Darlene smiled at how excited her best buddy was. She, herself, didn't get excited...

Added 23 Apr 2017 | Category General | Votes 3 | Avg Score 5 | Views 400 | 3 Comments

Despite being a city born and raised child, I have always loved horses. Maybe it was all the adventures of The Lone Ranger, Roy Rodgers, and Zorro that I watched that had this effect on me. Anyway, I have always loved horses and looked forward to the day when I could ride one. When I was 16, I was afforded the chance to live my dream. My family and I along with our friends were driving...

Added 05 Mar 2017 | Category General | Votes 4 | Avg Score 5 | Views 561 | 4 Comments

At the time of my first marriage, my youngest stepdaughter was a very pretty slender thing. She was not aggressive or a loud mouth or a fighter by any means, but it seems she became the favorite target of a large blond female bully. These attacks were mostly due to her Hispanic blood; her biological father was Hispanic. No, she did not look it, she looked more Italian or Greek. Just...

Added 08 Nov 2016 | Category Memoirs | Votes 3 | Avg Score 5 | Views 400 | 3 Comments