Whoa, i’ve been doing this for 50 days? Sheesh!
I didn’t have anything immediately ready this morning, so i did some five-minute writing exercises and this little chunk annoyed me the least.
I haven’t figured out why its working title is, “Red Hot Rush” yet. Maybe it has something to do with pizza. (As always, the views of my annoying cynical characters do not necessarily reflect the views of the author. K? K!)
I think this was about to get seriously surreal when the timer went off.
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Increasing night-blindness was starting to put a real crimp in Hal’s driving. Doing pizza delivery at fifty-five was humiliating, but so would being a bum. No driving, no job. No job, no crappy apartment with cockroaches. No apartment, bum.
He already felt like a bum. He dressed like one. If he wasn’t driving a car, he might be indistinguishable from a bum. Some bums had car’s, they lived in them. That was probably a lot cheaper.
And yeah, it wasn’t PC to call them bums. Bums and bag lady’s?Was there a male counterpart to a bag lady? Were all bums male? He’d have to investigate. He got off the pizza job at two AM and could probably sneak into the library to check Wikipedia.
He had a volunteer pass at the library, and with it he could sneak in at night. There was the constant fear of being caught, but he couldn’t let the damn pass go to waste, could he? Not when the vast Internet lay waiting for him out there.
He was lost. Or rather, he thought he was lost. It was hard to tell when he couldn’t read any of the signs.
In a minute, he’d need to pull over and examine a street sign up close.
Through the fogged window, street signs looked like dessicated trees, buildings looked like the looming walls of a sea canal.
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