beeja
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- Dec 23, 2003
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- Thai
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- Thailand
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- Thailand
Hi,
Got some questions again. Pls help.
1) In the bar, one large black guy are working the stick and two waitresses are handling the booths and four-tops.
a) I don't understand what "working the stick" is. Playing billiard?
b) What are the waitresses doing? what do booths and four-tops here mean?
2) A guy tells a waitress that he is in Insurance business. Her uncle sold insurance and he sure as hell didn’t decorate a bar stool like this one. Six-two, most of it leg, and a well-toned one-ninety, if she was any judge and Angie considered herself a damn good judge of her eye candy
It seems to me that her uncle is an insurance seller too and sounds like this guy is too handsome to be insurance seller. But what is the bolded sentence mean?
3) A girl looks at a sexy man and says "That’s the kind of long drink of water a woman wants to down in one big slurp"
what does it mean?
4) A man talks to the female twins "Ladies, you are a two-scoop treat for the eyes."
Does he mean they are alike, especially their eyes???
5) Tthe odds were she was in it up to her pretty neck and he always went with the odds.
What does it mean?
6) If he had to use her to get there, those were the breaks.
"get there" here is to get the big boss (or use her to reach for a very important secret, what do "the breaks" in this sentence mean?
7) She didn't look like the former wife – and suspected accomplice – of a career thief and con artist who’d not only gotten delusions of grandeur, but had somehow pulled it off.
what does the bold sentence mean?
That's it! Pls help. Tks.

Got some questions again. Pls help.
1) In the bar, one large black guy are working the stick and two waitresses are handling the booths and four-tops.
a) I don't understand what "working the stick" is. Playing billiard?
b) What are the waitresses doing? what do booths and four-tops here mean?
2) A guy tells a waitress that he is in Insurance business. Her uncle sold insurance and he sure as hell didn’t decorate a bar stool like this one. Six-two, most of it leg, and a well-toned one-ninety, if she was any judge and Angie considered herself a damn good judge of her eye candy
It seems to me that her uncle is an insurance seller too and sounds like this guy is too handsome to be insurance seller. But what is the bolded sentence mean?
3) A girl looks at a sexy man and says "That’s the kind of long drink of water a woman wants to down in one big slurp"
what does it mean?
4) A man talks to the female twins "Ladies, you are a two-scoop treat for the eyes."
Does he mean they are alike, especially their eyes???
5) Tthe odds were she was in it up to her pretty neck and he always went with the odds.
What does it mean?
6) If he had to use her to get there, those were the breaks.
"get there" here is to get the big boss (or use her to reach for a very important secret, what do "the breaks" in this sentence mean?
7) She didn't look like the former wife – and suspected accomplice – of a career thief and con artist who’d not only gotten delusions of grandeur, but had somehow pulled it off.
what does the bold sentence mean?
That's it! Pls help. Tks.