Millicent Parker slammed her glass down on the bar. "Gimme another double," she demanded.
"Millie I think you've had enough," Jerry the bartender replied.
"Aw come on, just one more."
"Okay, but this is it. You're eighty sixed."
He poured her another double vodka which she immediately sucked down.
"I gotta go piss but I'll be back," she declared.
She stumbled off the barstool, staggered about three feet and passed out cold on the barroom floor. A pool of urine formed around her splayed legs. Millie had pissed herself.
Ed Ames walked into the bar, looked down and saw Millie. He stepped over her and sat at the bar. "What happened? Did somebody shoot Millie?"
"Naw, she just tried to drink up all my vodka and passed out on her way to the can. Then she pissed all over herself."
Ed really wasn't interested in Millie's drinking problems. "Well, call the cops and let her sleep it off in the drunk tank."
"Nope, that's the third time this month she's managed to drink too much in here. They could give me a ticket for letting her drink too much. I'm hoping some sober guy who knows where she lives will drive her home."
"I know where she lives but I don't want to handle that drunk, piss soaked bitch."
"Come on Ed. I'll let you drink beer on the house for a month if you'll haul her ass out of here."
Ed thought over the free beer offer. Then he smiled and said, "Okay, but we've got to clean her up a little first. I don't want her pissy ass in my truck."
"Thanks Ed you're a real pal. Help me drag her out back so we can hose her down."
The two men dragged Millie out in back of the tavern. The bartender hosed her off while Ed held her legs apart.
"Get your truck," Jerry said.
Ed pulled his pickup around back. They dragged her over to the truck. Jerry opened a door.
"No way!" yelled Ed. "Load her drunken cunt in the bed." He dropped the tailgate and helped the bartender load her.
"How are you gonna unload her?"
"That's not your problem. Your problem is keeping me in beer for a month."
Jerry shuffled back inside. Ed fired up the truck and drove to Millie's. Then he changed his mind and drove her to his house. He threw her over his shoulder and carried her to his basement, dumping her in the exercise room. She'll probably raise all kinds of hell when she wakes up, Ed thought. He retrieved some of his never used neckties and gagged her. Then he bound her arms and legs and tied her to the weight machine.
He didn't have to work. He lived on a big trust fund. The next day was Saturday. He decided he could take care of her in the morning. He thought about what to do with her once she woke up. He didn't want to have to do this again. He also didn't want her to completely destroy her own sorry ass. He sometimes helped sad cases get out of trouble. He decided he'd help Millie.
Saturday morning Ed got up and fixed his breakfast. He was halfway through it when he remembered Millie tied up in his basement. He finished breakfast, cleaned up and then went downstairs.
Millie was struggling mightily at the weight machine. She stopped when she spotted Ed.
"If you'll be quiet, I'll take the gag out," he told her.
She shook her head 'yes' and he loosened the gag. An uninterrupted stream of loud obscenities poured out of her mouth. Ed tightened the gag again.
"That's not nice Millie. I'm gonna try to take the gag off one more time. If you do that again, I'll tighten it back up and leave you here all day. Do you understand?"
Once again she affirmed that she would be quiet. Ed loosened the gag. She uttered not a sound.
"Do you know where you are?" Ed asked.
"N..n..no" she stuttered.
"You are in my basement. Do you know why you are here?"
"Yeah, I guess I had a little too much to drink last night."
"Millie, you had a lot too much to drink last night. You totaled yourself out and passed out in the bar. Then you pissed all over yourself and the floor. Jerry and I had to hose you off. I should have taken you to the drunk tank."
"But why am I tied up in your basement?"
"I wasn't gonna let you in my house and I knew you'd be a shit load of trouble when you woke up. That's why you're tied up down here."
"Okay, you've got me, now what are you going to do with me?"
"I could just let you go but then you'd be right back on the barroom floor again tonight. I've decide to rehab your stupid ass."
"You're not rehabbing me! I've got rights. You let me go right now."
"You'll either agree to being in rehab here, or I'll take you to choice number two."
"And just what is choice number two, asshole?"
"I know a guy on a freighter. His specialty is white slavery. I can sell your stupid ass to him and he'll sell you to a whorehouse in the Middle East or Africa. You've got ten minutes to make up your mind. If you're thinking about choosing rehab and then escaping, forget it. I'll track you down and then it'll be choice number two. Think hard Millie. You know that in your current state you can't stay sober overnight. It'll be easy to recapture you."
Ed turned on his heel and went back up the stairs. Ten minutes later he returned to the basement. "Well?"
"I'll take the rehab."