Chapter 22 The Coffee Stall under the Clock Tower

Life had been hard for Fabian's family,tapping rubber his poor mother could not earn much.When someone offered her the opportunity to do a small business she without hesitation grape that opportunity.

The stall was situated just by the side of the road,next to the famous Clock Tower of Teluk Anson.It can be said that the stall was directly under the Clock Tower.At that time the time of the Tower was never accurate.

She started the coffee stall business with some borrowed money.Business was breeze at the beginning and she also hired a waitress to help her.Those days people had not much entertainments around so married adult males usually patronized coffee stalls because of the presence of beautiful waitresses.

Normally they were there for a cheap cup of coffee or whatever and also had a nice chat with the waitresses.On a busy day the waitresses will be sailing from table to table.The more people she entertained the more tips she gets.

Those days Fabian and other siblings will be at the stall especially during the evening,studying under the street light.Normally they be there until the father came and send all home at about 10 p.m.but the stall was still in operation.

Initially their mother employed a slim tall woman as waitress.She was beautiful and soft spoken and the siblings called her Auntie Ho.She left after sometime and another woman was engaged,another Auntie Thye.

Business was not good because the waitress friendly with another uncle of Fabian.So all the time he was with that waitress,other customers seeing this stopped coming their stall.So lesser and lesser business.Ultimately forced to close stop as business was extremely bad.With the stall closed their relationship also ended.

With that termination of business their mother was forced to returned to tapping rubber.
To be continued