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A local powder-coating expert has today openly admitted to being a dodgy bloke, after doing a runner on a pie van lady who was loose enough enough to let him run a tab.
For the foreseeable future, it seems Anton Michaels (35) will be spendng every smoko break ducking Cheryl and her hiace with the built in bain-marie.
His fellow tradesmen say that knew what he was doing, after hitting the $80 mark on deep-fried lunches that his wife would never allow.
“I even saw him throw one of his salad sandwiches in the bin when the truck pulled in a couple weeks ago” said one Betoota Ponds Powder Spray office administrator, Nathan.
“Now he’s hit the $250 mark she’s cut him off until he pays her back”
However, the notoriously tightarse tab-runner appears to be in even more financial ruin that usual, following the start of winter football and a new credit card linked to his battered Sportsbet account.
Anton knows as well as anyone that he can’t pay off this debt in in one hit, and would rather avoid embarrassment by just not ever having to confront the fact that he spent two weeks worth of groceries on chiko rolls and vanilla coke.
With Cheryl patrolling the front gate like Clint Eastwood in a ‘Fistful of Dollars’ – even her paying customers are tip toeing.
“She’s gonna find him mate” says one courier, Dogger.
“And when she does there will be hell to pay”
