and the best thing about it was that he would n't have to take it up with the deacons , or with the ladies ' aid ( an organization which apparently only attracted two types of women c fat slobs with boobs the size of barrels and skinny-assed , flat-chested sluts like pamela sargent , with her fake ivory cigarette holder and her raspy smoker 's cough ) , or with the few well-to-do members of his congregation ... going to them always gave him a week 's worth of acid indigestion .