A New Old Watch. 9th in the STOPWATCH Series
Copyright© 2013 by Old Man with a Pen
Chapter 23
Weatherman. The only job where you can be wrong five out of seven days and still keep your job.
The 'storm' was a bust ... winds to 25, waves to 3 feet, dime sized hail and lasted three hours.
David called the Weather Service ... he intended to complain. He was on hold for 20 minutes.
"Weather Service: Answers Desk. You have Questions ... We have Answers." The voice bespoke eighteen, blonde, blue eyes, legs, 110 pounds, 5'10", 38C-23-36 ... and someone's act of nepotism.
The beginning was totally boring, but she was human.
Part way through the connection:
David asked, in a complaining voice, "For this I nearly destroyed two Detroit diesels?"
"It was the prairie winds that did it." The young secretary at the Answers Desk at the Weather Service head office said.
"Did what?
"Didn't combine."
"Combine with what?"
"The Canadian Zephyr."
"What does the Zephyr have to do with this?"
"The Zephyr was the storm."
"You just managed to totally confuse me."
"You're welcome," she giggled. "We try to please."
"What's happening over the next five to seven days?"
"I'm going out with Charlie on Friday and Bill on Saturday. Sunday I'm going to church with my mom, then it's uncle Al's for dinner. I'll probably swim in the pool ... the weather is supposed to be good. Monday it's back to this desk."
"The weather? Next five to seven days weather?"
"Oh ... I have no idea ... you'll have to listen to the weather report. If you'll tell me what city I can give you the station number."
"Well? What time of day does Car Talk come on?"
"10AM Saturdays.
"You know when a PBS radio show is on but you don't know the weather?"
"I listen to them every Saturday," she declared. "I never listen to the weather. They're wrong all the time, Click and Clack always give good advice."
"Well...
"That's a deep hole."
"True."
"Could be false."
"Well ... since you don't know I'll be hanging up now."
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