Chris, part ll

I've posted about Chris before and we had decided on a price for him to show up weekly to mow the lawn during the summer.  For the bargain-basement-price of $130 a month he's here every weekend PLUS he does the dog-doin's.  Last weekend he asked a great big favor of me.  He wanted to borrow my mower to do another client's lawn (his had broken down), and I told him 'No problem'.  Well he came over, got the mower and went to do the other lady's lawn and was back within an hour saying that he owed me a beer.  Hell, I can go for that!
He was back agin this Saturday and needed my mower again to do a guy down the street a few houses and said that when he was done he'd bring some beer back, so off he went again.  As promised, he came back with beer and we sat down and had a visit. 
Seems Chris was in prison for robbery (apparently he had a girlfriend that had a kid and he was doing whatever he could to put food on the table).  The first day he was 'in', there was a meeting of some kind going on and he attended.  I'd like to say that he found God, but I don't think it was quite as radical (?) as that.  He did end up seeing the error of his ways and decided that life would be infinitely easier with the church group than with the gangs, and stayed with them for the rest of his term.
He's very polite with me and calls me Little Lady and would prob'ly do anything for me, but I would never take advantage of that.  Any time he's over and does extras I always pay him extra.  Nobody works for free.
Poor guy.  When he decided to hook up with the old coug' and drink beer, he prob'ly didn't realize that now he was peeing with the big dog.  Oh dear.  All I can say about that is it's a really good thing that he doesn't have a drivers license and never has!
I wonder if he was puking on the porch with the puppies the next morning.