Fear no Tree

[Jimway]

BIG Judy

Even on the flight down toward camp, while repeating the phrase,'Big bear', and before all of the shaking in my arms and legs had subsided, I set out to deliver a little come uppance to Gleamin Dave for his unforgivable retreat when his close friend and fellow worker was being nearly eaten by a bear. Normally, after a long day in the woods, one would have generated a powerful thirst that would need to be attended to. Also needing attention, would be the fuel supply for ones saws and truck. Additionally, ones stomach would require replenishment too. We had this little piece of property on the coast where I could put up. In this little coastal town was a small filling station where one could buy gas, food, oil, and stuff like that. A lot of the crew stopped by the place for fuel and goodies. We came to know the young lady that ran the place quite well. Judy was her name. She was not one of those knock kneed, spindly types. She was coastal bred, born, and raised. I had suspicion that she could out work or at the least, out lift, half the guys on the crew, me included, even as I began to hatch my evil plan against Gleamin Dave. Being a small town gas station, it would close down early, and Judy would then go down to the town hall (Tavern ) to finish up the night waitressing to a bunch of well manered but tired, tree wrestlers. She would bring us food and drink and sit at our table and laugh along with us and our stories and such. The very evening after the bear incident, I felt I perceived that Judy seemed to pay pretty close attention to Gleamin Dave, even though she usually sat right next to me. For some unknown reason, the guys would leave the chair next to me unoccupied. For my part, being the gentle soul that I am, I would buy her some evening refreshment, and sit close to her, and playfully pick on her. She seemed to honestly appreciate the attention.

 

[Jimway]

Being somewhat mechanically inclined on the odd occasion, I saw a chance to get back at Gleamin Dave for abandoning me in my time of need when I faced down that big old bear. Big Judy's truck had broken down in the clutch department, and she was at a loss to repair it. I jumped in for a couple of evenings and threw in a new disk and pressure plate, along with a general tune up and had the old truck purring. Big Judy was beside herself with joy but low on funds. I suggested a home cooked meal might go over quite well in place of payment for the work done. It was my intention to spend the evening discussing Gleamin Daves amourous intent toward big Judy so that she might just throw a great big kiss upon him right in front of the crew. I thought this might be an interesting sight. You can imagine my surprise when Big Judy met me at her door that evening with not much covering her ample self. You probably cant imagine my surprise when she hugged me so hard that she nearly broke my back while lifting me up off of the floor. Her hot breath singed the outer layer of skin from my eyeballs. Immediatly concerned for both my virtue and general well being, I jumped into the fetal position, but just for a moment, so as to slide from her enormous grip. Seeing my chance to extoll the temperate ways of Gleamin Dave, I jumped back and set about explaining how Gleamin Dave was sort of shy and might need a little prodding to get things going. Big Judy turned red in the face, and her breath sped up considerably, and she talked about urgently wanting a man in her life. Her excited revelation of not having been with a man for sometime caused a chill to run down the length of my body and concentrate into the escape springs in both of my legs. I went so far as to share the secret of why we in the crew had nicknamed her new interest, 'Big Dave', and also how Big Gleamin Dave had secretly expressed to me, an urge for carnal knowledge concerning Big Judy. Her eyes got big. She clasped her large hands to her chest. A big smile spread across her face. A big bushy eyebrow raised up while her head kind of nodded back and forth. I smiled too. We set about planning a little get together for her and 'Gleamin', I mean,' Big Dave'. I was happy to do my part in trying to get them together, and I told her so.

 

[Jimway]

The day after the crew found out that I had been to Big Judy's for dinner, the rumours were rampant. There was hardly a gentleman amongst them, least of all, Gleamin Dave. Oh, the things they said about my possible behavior with Big Judy. I was expecting the 'full court press' at lunchtime when we stopped for break. When I pulled out a couple of four pound sandwiches that Big Judy had manufactured for me, the crew fell silent. I cut one in half and handed some to my groundman. "What, oh this?" I said as I held up the sandwich, "Big Judy made it for me for fixing her truck". "OH", I said with delight, "This thing is de-lisches". The crew looked at them big hunks of roast beef and cheese and pickles and began to salivate. "How is yours"? I asked my groundman. He didn't stop chewing but rolled his eyes straight up for a moment and then closed them with a big sigh. "So how was big Judy"? blurted out Gleamin Dave. Everyone fell silent and looked my way expectantly. Some wore smirks on their faces. "Well", I says, "She's one hell of a cook". "Keeps a real clean house too" I added. I told them about me fixing her truck. "I know she aint got a lot of funds available right now. Only cost a few bucks in parts and a couple of evenings. I was happy to help out and now she don't have to walk to work. Didn't see any of the rest of you guys while I was under the truck though". "She didn't ask" said Gleamin Dave. "Shouldn't have too" I said quietly and turned my back to Gleamin Dave. I could tell I had hurt his feelings when he says, kind of smart like, "So how was desert"? "Desert"?, I said, "Was delish-c-ious". "Here, try a hunk of this here samwich and tell me what you think". "Um thats good!" says Gleamin Dave. "Maybe if you was a little nicer to Big Judy, you could be chompin down on a similiar size meal yourself " I stated to Gleamin Dave. "Somthing to think about " I added. I could see the gears slowly begining to turn in Gleamin Daves head. I smiled to my self. I'll hit him with phase two of my plan tonight, I thought to myself...

 

[Redboat]

Subscribed ! Great story !

 

[Jimway]

Now I knew old Gleamin Dave could easily be had with food or drink. I figured to buy some rounds of food and drink, after work, knowing the peculiar effect alcohol can have upon ones eyes and mood as the evening rolls on. Some folks can get kind of nasty when their alcohol tanks begin to fill. Some folks get real happy. Some folks get sad. Some get loud. Some become quiet. I might mention right here that you can run across two types of nasty when alcohol is involved. You often find these two nasties later in the evening. Sometimes you can even find a little of both nasty at the same time, in the same person. No, its true, I've seen it. The one kind of nasty is the one where the persons language begins to decompose into four letter examples and the next thing you know, they are ready to fight the world, and you. With the other kind of nasty, the person turns into Don or Dawn Juan, and amorously will pursue everyone around while wispering descriptions of what could be. While this can be rather exciting and exilerating in some circumstances, it can be downright uncomfortable and even scary in other circumstances. I had deduced from a cursory study of Gleamin Dave's drinkin behavior that he gets pretty happy and contented at the outer limits of alcohol absorbtion. Combine a full tummy into the mix and Gleamin Dave can be downright pleasant. Warily, I noticed that Big Judy would quickly become effected with type two Nasty when plyed with even a small amount of alcoholic beverage.( Type two is the type where they start gettin all lovey dovey and want to sit on your lap and stuff) In my mind, I had run some computations as to the possible amount of alcoholic beverage needed to illicit some noteworty behavior from both Gleamin Dave and Big Judy. Feeling the need to get back at Gleamin Dave for leaving me to face that bear and then making fun of me afterword, I figured I'd see how Gleamin Dave could handle a bear, or would it be a bare? I figured I'd find out soon enough, perhaps even that night...

 

[Jimway]

Although I hadn't mentioned it to Gleamin Dave, I had kinda let it slip to Big Judy that Gleamin Dave was quite enamored of her but might require a little jumpstart to get the romance off and running ( so to speak ). I also might have mentioned that the reason that we all called Gleamin Dave, 'Big Dave', was due to nature having been generous to him in the way of muscles and some other parts. Big Judy seemed entirely interested in the latter. I had mentioned to Gleamin Dave that if he was nice to Big Judy, he too would receive favours such as delicious sandwiches and cool beverages in return. That evening, when we began to arrive at the town hall (Tavern and eatery and drinkery), I carefully set my plan into motion. I was delighted when Gleamin Dave heartily downed round after round of adult beverages offered up by Big Judy at my request. Gleamin Dave remarked to Big Judy as to how nice she looked this evening. Big Judy looked at me and rolled her eyes, shrugged her wide shoulders, crinkled her big nose and smiled. As she strutted away from the table, Gleamin Dave looked at me with a questioning glance. I looked at him with a confident smile, that slowly spread across my face, kind of like the Grinch who thought of stealing Christmas, and gave Gleamin Dave an OK signal with my right hand. Big Judy glanced back at our table to see if we were watching her walk back toward the bar area. Gleamin Dave smiled at her. Big Judy smiled back at him. When she returned to the table from the ladies room, her hair was down, the top button of her shirt was open and she had red lipstick on. I smiled at myself upon noticing these changes and my being observant of such things. "Hey Darlin" I crooned, "You got any of those fantastical roast beef sandwiches in the back?" "I bet ole Dave here would love to wrap his tongue around one of them things!" I said. Big Judy's eyes got kind of big when she looked at me. "I'd be happy to make you up some" she replied with a smile toward Gleamin Dave. "Make one up for yourself too" I added, "I'm buyin". These signature Big Judy sandwiches were made up up hot thin sliced roast beef piled unto a sourdough hoagy roll that was toasted up just right with some au jus in a bowl on the side with some crinkle frys and onion rings. Gleamin Dave was begining to show evidence of happyness, brought on by the right amount of alcohol, I surmised. As the evening wore on, I was able to introduce Big Judy to some beverages also. Much to my delight, the beverages, combined with some kind words on the part of Gleamin Dave, were working wonders.