A.G.E's Joint

....and welcome back. [Host grabs a sip from the mug on the desk.] Our next guest is very special and well known to our studio audience.  Please welcome Another Government Employee!   [He bounds out from behind the curtain.  The audience bursts out in applause] Good to see you again, AGE. [Shaking hands and offering the first seat on the couch] Same to you, Chris. It's been a while since you have been on the program.  Anything fascinating in the Master of the Universe's world? Well, as you know, I really am a fraud these days.  I left Government Service a while back... [audience hoots and hollers] ...to regain my sanity [more hoots] . Yeah, Yeah, I know.  Like THAT would ever happen...  And now I work along the regular Proles doing pretty much the same work as before.  And I get paid better for it. I'm sure that was kind of a culture shock, not worrying about the next call. Not as much as I thought, Chris. You know, I found I ...

“Ah, there you are.   I didn’t think you’d come today.   It does an old man good to see young people now and again. When you are the oldest sailor on the dock, you never know if you’ll get another chance.   You did bring the beer?   Good. ” “Your mother well, I trust?   You know her and I go back many years.   When I first met her, she was about your age and I was still bit older.   I was working down on the docks and she was a waitress in a diner.   I’d get off and have a bit of supper.   I didn’t have a girl then.   I had lost mine to fever a few years earlier" “Anyway, your mother would serve up me up stew and beer.   I always wanted to ask her out, but never could get up the nerve.    She was a pretty one, back then.   Then I caught mate’s position on a steamer and left town for a while.   It was about a year and half later I was back.   By then she had left the diner and gotten mar...