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they have heavy accents they
always have such thick fucking accents man the
father says what is your success rate with students and the SAT [esshachetee] i
stop myself from calling him dude i totally do i go sir i am confident that blahbitty blahblah blah i
talk until the man stops me he
says my son's test is next week i go
next week??? i emphasize the three question marks ok i do i mean come on and the dad goes my son he
take the hayceetee last week but he no finish he say there was umm how you say many questions left unhanswered good
grief
i think to myself but also like
man fuck it you need the fuckin money i
go ok well i think we could all sit down and talk about test taking strategies and maybe i could look at samples of his school work and form a plan from there

oh

i say after a short contemplative pause

is your son an american?

yees. he is american. but umm. he no like study.

i count to five. i say to myself: the money man think of the money. a separate voice in my head goes yo tyty this motherfucker is doomed he shoulda been studying for this shit for a year man and plus holy shit his dad sounds like some anti-govt rebel from who fuckin knows where right i mean dude might kill your ass if you fail to teach his son three years of high school in a week but
then i'm like hey dude xmas money man you need xmas money with the quickness pardner so i move forward and we make an appt during the alma mater's game [FUCKING FUCK] and then hang up.

after that i return someone named akbar's call. he wants to improve his english writing skills.

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