Episode 8 – Pink Piggy Tales
Sandy’s New Cunning Plan
By Christopher Wisherwood et al
Sandy sat on an overturned gravestone and surveyed the devastation around him. There was a loud crack as the gravestone disintegrated and Sandy found himself sitting on top of a coffin. He made himself more comfortable and tried to talk to the coffin’s occupant but he was met with deathly silence. In desperation he slipped his hand inside his shirt and rummaged among the rolls of fat to find the effigy of Leafy that he always carried with him. He twisted one of the pins that stuck out of its chest and tightened the noose around its neck.
In Hurghada, Leafy puffed hard on another cigarette, grabbed his throat and coughed until he wet himself. He was about to pull the latest love of his life at a downtown disco and started to cry at the humiliation as the wet patch spread across his new spangled lilac undies.. “How dare Leafy leave me here”, Sandy thought but released pressure on the noose. A vicious gleam appeared in his pink piggy eyes as he vowed to get even. Sandy always got even. When Leafy got back he would sit on him and squeeze all life from his body. Sandy’s other spirits had deserted him but Leafy would never leave him once he was dead.
Just ten minutes earlier, Sandy was in the middle of eating his fifteenth hamburger when disaster struck. The anticipation of eating the sixteenth burger (which devoted readers was the one with mayonnaise on it) had been too much for him and another seismic had slipped from between his buttocks. Immediately the door flew open and the windows blew out but in was not for a few more seconds that the walls fell outwards like a badly put together flat pack from a DIY store. Sandy was now homeless as well as penniless and almost friendless. (Poor Sandy. I know that all readers are now on their third box of tissues).
The problem of Sandy’s lack of communication with his spirits and the complexity of his alter egos had not gone away but he had to sort it out before he had any chance of conning people out of their hard earned money. He was sure that he could make a fortune through his Dial-a-Physic site if he put all his fees in dollars. The English were a suspicious race but perhaps the Americans would fall for his scam if he told them he lived by the side of the Nile instead of in Karnak graveyard.
Sandy started to count his friends but that only took a couple of seconds as there were very few of them. There was Aunty Bimboli Bolt but she was of little help. She was a Bet Lynch look-alike, aggressive ex-football hooligan from Leeds who liked being beaten up by rough trade. BB saw herself as a remodelled Bridget Bardot but it was illusion as she did not have the looks for it. She was more Billy Bunter but without the intellect so Betty Boop was more in her line. However, although she was as thick as a brick she was not so thick that she would send Sandy money. There was Leafy of course, he was not as thick as Bimboli but he had already absconded to Hurghada. A tear coursed its way down Sandy’s face leaving a pink trail on his dirty face.
Sandy had to rely on himself. He only dealt in FACTS not truths. In his opinion FACTS were what it was all about. In his opinion Truths were too painful to enter his world. Truths made you face reality but FACTS (Falsehoods, Accusations, Cheating, Threats and Satanism) could be altered to please and were what Sandy survived on. He had endless court cases to prove it. In FACT most of his life had been spent dreaming up court cases. His latest one was against Victor Meldrew for being more miserable than he was. The one against Myra Hindley for being deadlier than him had to be shelved when she had the audacity to die in prison before the case could be heard. He would get even with her too. He had a case against everyone who did not lie down and die when he told them to. In his opinion they should do as he ordered and deserved all they got for disobeying him.
The first identity to be dealt with was his latest one, Sandy Firenicks. It was not his real name of course. Sandy had in FACT almost forgotten who he really was. Maybe the day would arrive when it was all revealed but that was still to come. So who did that leave? Who were the major players in Sandy’s multi faceted life?
Sandy Firenicks – Liar, fraud, thief, fantasist, slanderer, con artist, pervert, compulsive eater, charlatan, Satanist, voodoo practitioner,effigy maker, quack clairvoyant, sociopath, law evader, bogus case starter, charity swindler, blackmailer, extortionist, stealer of kid's sweeties, popper of kid's balloons, destroyer of kid's futures, seismic farter, necrophiliac and donkey lover but not a bigamist. He was definitely not a bigamist because the nearest he ever got to a bride was being a bridesmaid at Leafy’s wedding to Dee a transvestite dipso from Amsterdam’s red light area. Sandy was jealous of Dee’s new frock an had poured wine down it. Leafy was angry and cried again.
Mandy Peanuts – con artist and expert filth thrower with a very vivid imagination.
Amen Mustav – Talks to the dead but practises first with the brain dead. Aunty Bimboli was his first guinea pig. Runs a defunct Dial-a-fortune-teller site.
Loobaloo – Runs a firm called Rent-A-Thug. (Leafy acts as Training Officer as he is ex SAS – Silly Arse Squad). Banging on doors and running away, bunging up door locks and cutting telephone wires is the speciality.
E.J. Eyesore – Poison keyboard manipulator. Lucretia Borgia is her heroine.
LSGiza – Responsible for advertising hijacked websites on forums. Headquarters H M Prison, LieAll, LieAll is a women’s prison in Cheshire which accepts hermaphrodites under duress.
Kushydeal – Fall back alter-ego that sometimes boosts Sandy’s fragile sense of self worth. Leader of a whole group of personalities who can be called upon at will. Stayinbed acts as a lieutenant.
Sandy felt the beginnings of a smile creep across his pudgy face and headed for the remains of his fridge. There was another gallon of ice-cream in there somewhere that he could eat. That would cheer him up. Eating made him think more clearly. He did a lot of thinking and a lot of eating. In FACT he ate enough in one day to keep an entire family for a month. He was proud of that because he was “Worth It”; they were not. He found the ice cream quickly and stuck his fingers into the rapidly melting goo. It trickled down his chin much to the delight of the flies that followed him about.
It had occurred to him that instead of getting rid of his alter-egos he could utilise them all. A cunning plan formed in his head. (Move over Baldric). LSGiza could find websites and forums to advertise on, knowingly or otherwise. EgyptLurch was a well known publishing house that welcomed cranks whereas EgyptGlad was more fussy about who it dealt with. Mandy could advertise herself on the Dial-a-Physic site. She would be able to diagnose problems over the phone such as flatulence diagnosed from heavy breathing, ruptures diagnosed by listening to a cough, and STDs diagnosed by listening to a sniff. Just think of it; she could promise that AIDS would vanish in an instant just by sniffing and quoting credit card details. Mandy had already had success by prescribing 2 Alka Seltzer, at breakfast, 2 Rennies at lunch and 2 Viagra at dinner, as these seemed to cure most things. Amen Mustav could advertise himself under Dial-a-Fortune Teller. Prospective clients would be told to place palms over the mouthpiece of the telephone to get a palm reading. He could then visualise how the life line ran. Kushydeal could read Tarot cards over the phone by holding his breath until he got light-headed and his voice wavered. That way, clients would think he had gone into a trance. E.J. Eyesore could send messages to anyone who opposed Sandy or caught him with his fingers in the till and then Loobaloo could send Leafy’s trainee thugs round to terrorise them. (OAPs a speciality and done over at a discount).
Sandy rummaged through the remains of the caravan for his upside down cross. Satan would love his initiative and would reward him handsomely. If he did not then Satan had better look out because Sandy always got even. He would start another website. www.Satan-Exposed-As-A-Softie.com In the depths of the fires Satan cringed then threw up. With Sandy’s size there would be no room left in hell for decent demons to move about. Satan slipped into depression and swallowed some Prozac. Sandy renewed his vows to get even with the powers of the Universe..
Devoted readers what is to happen next? After some initial success in Hurghada, Leafy’s activities suffer when opposed by people with IQ in double figures. Will he return to Luxor? Will there be yet more Gay sites designed to corrupt Luxor’s youth? Will Sandy get even with everyone? Will Satan stop throwing up at the thought of him and learn to love him? Tune in soon and find out.
All characters in these tales are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is entirely coincidental.
Pink Piggy Takes are brought back yet again by popular demand. Please enjoy the humour of the tales but always remember that Luxor is a wonderful place to live and visit but is often marred by the actions of people who should always remember that they are guests in Egypt and should abide by its laws and customs.
Abusing minors is against the law, talking to the dead and telling fortunes is against Christianity, Islam and all organised religions.
LOVE LUXOR LOVE EGYPT
RESPECT ITS CUSTOMS AND ITS LAWS