Shift Change
by Old Man with a Pen
Copyright© 2022 by Old Man with a Pen
Fiction Story: The aftermath of too much coffee and too many games of Solitaire.
Tags: Fiction
I had just come on. I spent the normal half an hour getting the ‘skinny’ from Dr. Albert ... Dr. Albert holds the Ph.D. Gene is Days... 8:30 to 5. I have a Masters and Evenings... 4:30 to Midnight. 11:30 to 8 is Gloria ... she’s a Doc candidate too. Rumor has it that she sleeps a lot. Understand ... I’m a Doc candidate. Working towards my Ph. Not there yet.
There’s nothing ‘urgent’. A few drunks and celebrants ... election night.
Ever since the President decreed ‘a kinder gentler generation’ there’s been a staff on hand or on call...
We’re supposed to ‘talk ‘em off the ledge.’
He said that ... and wrote the Executive Order. It made it through the courts and the Surpremes discussed it. It didn’t infringe police powers and the constitutional constructionists agreed with the wording. So ... there’s three of us on staff ... one a shift and we’re on call. The pay is terrific ... and we’re seldom busy so I get in a lot of study time.
The election wound down and a ‘winner’ declared. The loser conditionally conceeded. The vote wasn’t even close but the forms must be followed. I must say ... I was surprised. I thought the other party had the upper hand.
I’m deep into an esoteric paper recently published by a ‘fringe thinker’ when the desk set disrupted my concentration. I picked up.
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