It is my last
official meal at La Paramount. The chaps
are in good spirits. Jelly and Butter
cheer me on through my traditional chicken and vegetable Asian pot of fun. We talk about all the great times we have had
in this great eating space. Jelly notes
that with the ending of my current position in Government, the door has truly
opened for a go at the golden calf of job contentment: a full-time job at the
Paramount. Of course, I could start off
small, cleaning out the toilets and scrubbing the jizz off the wash basins and
poo from the floor. Perhaps, then
graduating to cleaning up tables and taking the dirty plates back to Chef Lanka,
with a few, surly biffs across the head from the big chef for not moving fast
enough. But slowly I Peanut would ascend
the dirty, greasy, sticky pole of the big P. Getting my own apartment looking over the
plastic dome of the food court. Getting
special access after hours to the senior employees’ bathroom; unlimited, 24
hour access to the Paramount gym, casino and strip club on the rooftop
level. Then eventually, I would be
presented with the massive set of keys to attach to my stained, black slacks
along with my own storage locker for personal items and things I had stolen
from guests, as I become the official Paramount caretaker, the most revered
(and indeed feared) position in the Paramount organisational chart. When I become no 1, it will be like Scarface
burying his head into as many steaming plates of Chef Lanka stewed goat curry
as he desires. Who will stop me
then? And I Peanut will plot my revenge
on all those who have wronged me.
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