Cable TV Trucks

Cable TV Trucks
Fiction
Edward W Pritchard

Note See becoming Elderly in America [same author] Jan 19, 2010



The Cable TV trouble shooting trucks crawled down the narrow alleyway, and past the six multicolored mobile homes that seemed to dissolve into the pavement as the driver slowly passed. Trailers 18 and 20, one black and one white, both with crooked overhangs for a car port on the left side, and both with broken bric a brack near the door, but only 18 with no cable service today. Home 18 also had two flags flying on each side of the entrance, both flags were new, and since today was the fourth of July, and the driver was getting double time for working, even from the conniving cable company, for there was no way around his employer paying double time today, the driver specifically remembered those flags two years later at the trial where he was to be a witness in the murder of Carl Bing the car dealer.

Carl Bing had made a racial slur against two young Muslim girls and her Grandmother, had calmly shot him five times later that day.

The cable TV repair truck driver remembered the Grandmother of course, even two years later, because she seemed so out of place, standing in that driveway at the trailer park, and he remembered her from driving her back to the apartment and remembered she had held a philosophy book in her lap as they drove.

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