American Entertainment 1982

Chapter 246

Miami Department of Veterans Affairs Administration Center.

It is responsible for handling all administrative affairs involving veterans in the Miami area, and also manages facilities such as nursing homes for veterans, welfare homes for veterans, clinics for veterans, and canteens for veterans throughout the Miami area.

Holding some briefing materials, Tommy came out of the main entrance of the management center with a painful expression on his face, opened the door and sat back in the car, then took out his wallet, counted the banknotes in it, and counted his own 100 yuan, and it was only 530 yuan , Peggy saw that his face was a little ugly, and said next to him:

"According to the situation in California, if you donate 400 yuan to the Association of Retired Police Officers, it is enough to receive an invitation letter at the association's quarterly appreciation dinner. If you think the change looks too shabby, I can help you change it into four hundred-dollar denominations. banknote."

"I know, it's cheaper here than in California, and you can get an invitation for 300 yuan, but I don't need an invitation to the quarterly appreciation dinner. Jeff can't speak at the dinner now, and it's only 400 yuan, and the association won't Give him a chance to speak for the campaign." Tommy took a deep breath and said with some depression:

"He has no financial backer, no basic board, and nothing, so he can't make a deal with the rich people at the dinner party. He can only squeeze the money out of a certain group of poor people. The only way to turn that group into Jeff's basic Wealthy people may talk to him after making sure that he has the value worthy of other party candidates’ attention or cooperation with him. The most important thing is that those politicians have already thought of winning the votes of this group. The Democratic Party The third-ranked candidate Gerald Richman, his political action committee donated 2 yuan to this place, that is to say, unless we pay more money, otherwise all the officials or employees here will not Pay attention to us, let alone wave flags for Jeff."

"Do you need me to drive?" Page didn't care about this kind of thing, just asked Tommy.

Tommy flipped through the introductions about veterans' welfare institutions in his hand: "Yes, I can only use stupid methods to walk those nursing homes one by one to help Jeff raise funds. There are a total of twelve veterans' homes in Miami. We get at least 2000 yuan in each nursing home. Calculated based on the average number of residents in each place of 42 people, each old guy must donate to us at least 48 yuan. Then we need to pack Jeff, otherwise it depends on Jeff's current situation. Stupid virtue, let alone 48 yuan, it is impossible to raise 48 cents."

"Where?"

Tommy tosses the free Veterans Affairs affiliate profile on the backseat:
"Driving, let's go to the car rental company first, then to the clothing store, then to the video studio, and to find a hairstyle... By the way, Martin seems to have been a barber."

When Tommy finished his work and returned to Jeff's house, it was past dinner time, but he didn't go to bed early. On the contrary, the living room of Jeff's house was in full swing.

The four children were excitedly queuing up in front of the telephone to make calls, urging their classmates and friends to turn on the TV now and watch their father's heroic appearance. Sister-in-law Gina was also lined up behind the four children, preparing to make a phone call to go to her hometown. , bragging to those relatives that her brother-in-law is now a big man who can be on TV.

For many country folks, being on television is unimaginable.

Jeff and his wife snuggled sweetly on the sofa and enjoyed the news screen on the TV. Jessica regretted the image of Jeff in the news screen and thought that she should let Jeff wear the suit when they got married today. that would make him look more handsome, and Jeff said that the owner of the burger shop specifically called and said that he sent himself a small check for 20 yuan to support his election, and told Jeff that the next Next time, if he is on TV again, I hope he can continue to hold his own signature hamburger.

As for Martin, he and Jeff's two smart friends, Zach and Allen, seriously discussed who is better in acting, he or Jeff.

Seeing Tommy walking in, the whole living room suddenly fell silent, only the voice of the news host on the TV was left. After a pause of two seconds, everyone came back to their senses and were busy. Jessica got up and said, help Tommy. Rice left a dinner.

"Jeff, I rented a car for you, and it's parked outside, come and try it out." Tommy declined Jessica's proposal to let him taste Chinese food, and tilted his head at Jeff:
"Also, I can hear you yelling inside from the outside, I don't know, I thought you won the Nobel Prize in Physics by relying on the flat earth theory, keep a low profile, just appeared on the news programs of several local TV stations. "

Jeff stood up in a daze: "You rented a car for me? But there are three cars at home, why do you need to rent a car?"

He has three cars in his family, one is the Ford sedan Tempo he drives, which is convenient for him to store various tools for plumbing maintenance in the trunk, the other is the family Ford Mercury that Jessica drives to buy groceries or pick up the children, and One is a Chevrolet family six-seater recreational vehicle, which is convenient for the family of six to go out together on weekends.

The others also heard Tommy's words, and they walked out of the house together with Jeff curiously, wanting to see what kind of car Tommy had rented for Jeff. Being petrified, he froze on the spot.

In front of everyone, a tattered 1979 Ford F150 pickup was parked, and the body was sprayed with jungle camouflage. On the front hood of the car, there was even an American flag and a prominent slogan:

"This is America! Say No to the Cubans!"

Everyone was so shocked by the car's shape that they couldn't speak. Jeff's smart friend Zach even covered his mouth, and was so shocked that he cursed in a low voice: "Shit! Tommy, you are Cuban 45% of the No.18 district actually drove this car back in its entirety? Didn’t it get smashed by the Cubans?”

"Go up and try. Tomorrow, you will drive this pickup truck that has made great contributions to the U.S. Army to the veterans' nursing home, condolences to those veterans, and give a touching speech." Tommy said to Jeff.

Jeff saw this crappy old-fashioned pickup truck that was not even considered ordinary: "I don't understand, Tommy, why do you want to drive this car? My Ford Tempo is much better than this one, and it's only three years old. The age of the car, this car has been ravaged in the swamp for at least eight years."

"Ford Tempo? Are you fucking kidding me? Drive that kind of car to a place full of veterans?" Tommy looked at Jeff and cursed first, then rolled his eyes and looked at Martin again:

"Martin, translate for Jeff, why can't you drive his car to that kind of place."

As Tommy's substitute, Martin shrugged and said without reservation: "Because those veterans will ask Jeff, hey, boy, when you buy a fucking car, does the auto dealer let you mortgage your balls on it?" Is it there? That's why you bought a car that a bitch drives?"

"Very good, the translation is good, that's what it means." Tommy opened the door of the pickup truck, took out a large set of clothing from it and handed it to Jeff's wife: "This is the clothing that Jeff will wear tomorrow, a camouflage baseball cap, Camouflage T-shirts, polo pants and boots."

"And~" Tommy finally took out a video tape and handed it to Jeff: "Learn how to be a tough guy."

Jeff looked down, it was an old movie released in 1978, "Fist" starring Sylvester Stallone.

It tells the story of a passionate young worker who was dissatisfied with capitalists and politicians colluding with corruption and oppressing workers, leading workers to strike, and eventually grows into the chairman of the truck drivers union colluding with politicians, capitalists and the mafia.

Before Jeff realized why he wanted to watch this movie, Tommy added: "The most important point is to only watch the first half, the second half is not suitable for you at present."

　I still owe yesterday's two updates, let's pay it back today~ I came back a bit late yesterday~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)