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“Yeah. Limousines. Mostly for funerals, but if you want a limousine to get married in, we got white ones. We even got a white Rolls-Royce.”
“No shit?”
“Costs a fucking fortune, but you’d be surprised how often it gets rented,” Dominic went on.
“Most of our business is funeral homes,” Joey said. “Only the bride, usually, gets a limousine ride for a wedding. But if you don’t get to follow the casket to the cemetery in a limousine for a funeral, people will think you’re the family black sheep.”
“I guess that’s so,” Frankie agreed, and then started to hand the Classic Livery business card back to Joey.
Joey held up his hand to stop him.
“Keep it,” he said. “You may need a limousine someday.”
“Yeah,” Dominic said. “And they’ll probably give you a professional discount.”
Joey laughed in delight.
“I told you shut up, asshole,” he said.
“A professional discount for what?” Frankie asked, overwhelmed by curiosity.
“Shit, you know what for. Increasing business,” Dominic said.
Joey laughed.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Frankie said.
“Right,” Joey said, and laughed, and winked.
“Yeah, right,” Dominic said.
“Actually, Frankie, that’s sort of the reason we’re here.”
“What is?” Frankie asked.
“What you don’t know we’re talking about,” Joey said softly, moving so close to Frankie that Frankie could smell his cologne. “Frankie, there’s a fellow we know wants to talk to you.”
“Talk to me about what?”
Joey winked at Frankie.
“I don’t know,” Joey said. “But what I do know about this fellow is that he admires a job well done.”
“He’s done a job or two himself,” Dominic said. “If you know what I mean.”
“He already told you he don’t know what you’re talking about, asshole,” Joey said.
“Right,” Dominic said.
“What this fellow we know wants to talk to you about, Frankie,” Joey said, “is a job.”
“What kind of a job?”
“Let’s say a job where you could make in an hour about ten times what you make in a month pushing furniture around the Wanamaker’s warehouse.”
“Yeah?”
“Let’s say this fellow we know has a sort of professional admiration for the way you did your last job, and we both know I’m not talking about throwing furniture on the back of some truck.”
