Adult Children by Stephen Beals for August 07, 2023

aaand who’s gonna pay for this?

That trick might come in handy at closing time

That would work for me.

Tabby reports the fire alarm is working well.

..and ol’ what’s her name is outta here..

I worked with industrial furnaces. The Beavermatic Integral Quench model had a single tone alarm. I liked to harmonize with it, sing a third or fifth above it.

I worked in crummy buildings. First beep of the fire alarm and I had my emergency bag and was out the door, down the stairs and well away from the building.

The day I applied at a job, the fire dept came for what could have been a very serious fire. That was my first clue to run, but I didn’t. got the job at a very dangerous company that payed extremely well.

That was a call for clean up on aisle 5.

Customers are supposed to life blood of retail. The world will end with us failing to take in each other’s laundry. A clothes encounter of the third kind .