Sax Taxson had an Idea

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Episode 14

What Sax had in mind was a magnum size penis pump. He didn't personally own one, but he knew a guy who ran a “backroom,” near Sorbonne actually.

“Len,” Sax said. Sax was tired of his creepy quiet image he had somehow acquired, and by making the offer, was trying to redefine himself as a guy with real and viable ideas. Sax would be known as a ‘go to guy,’ or a ‘man with the plan.’ In his bathroom, Sax had a copy of Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People, which he would thumb through while forcing out a poop.

Mabel answered for Len, and told Sax that Len wasn't feeling well. Mabel told Sax that Len had the flu, or something, and that maybe everyone at Cheviot Machine and Screw was going to come down with it.

Sax put his hands in his pockets, because he found Mabel telling him that ‘Len had the flu’ amusing, and sad. Simultaneously.

“Ok,” Sax said.
Sax went on: “Tell Len I got a place to get a pump.”

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Seeing that Len was incapacitated, and that the water cannon needed to be finished - more than likely - by that evening, Sax decided to take a rare opportunity for an alpha role around Cheviot Machine and Screw.

“How’s that barrel coming?” Sax asked big Ernie Shores. Sax hunched over the lathe, without safety glasses on, peering down on the spinning tapered cylinder, pretending to know what he was looking for in terms of imperfections, or lapses in true craftsmanship.

Without looking away from his work piece, big Ernie told him that it was coming along fine.

Sax pouted his bottom lip over his top, and nodded his head in understanding and approval. The barrel was coming along nicely. The water cannon might just be ready for Henge to pick it up later on this evening at the Wiedeshofer house.

The only thing Sax needed to do was to pick up the pump from the ‘backroom’ near Sorbonne, and figure some way to incorporate the mechanism into the cannon.

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Photograph by Nythan James.