Monday, February 18, 2008

CAR CHASE part two

I drove to the other side of downtown to meet him where he told me the bank was. I was pissed, and the 5 o'clock traffic gummed up every street. My hands ached from gripping the steering wheel in anger. I neared where he said it was.

"Hey I'm at the corner where's the bank?"
"Oh uh it's actually down the street at Hines and Coit right where you get on the Tollway."
"Great I'm like five blocks from there. Don't leave I'll be there."

This is #$!%$ing ridiculous. I'm out chasing this guy like he's driving a white bronco.

I turn the corner. I'm at the light where Hines curves to head to the bank. I can't actually see the bank yet. but it's there. The phone rings.

"Hey man, where are you?" It's him, Dumbo, and I know where this is going.
"DO NOT LEAVE!" I yell. "I'm right here in less then a minute I will be in the parking lot. As soon as this light changes."
"I can't wait man." (He really talks like this too. Full of nice ez going phrases that are totally betrayed by his evil heart and tense voice)
"Do not leave that parking lot." I say as the light changes. "30 seconds."

"What?" falls out of his mouth and into my cell phone.

I hold the phone out and speak angrily into it like a microphone. From the car next to me it must look like I a cop calling in back up.

"I am 30 seconds away from the pulling into the !@@@$ing Bank. Stay right..."
"I'm gone."
"Turn around now!"
"I'm on the toll road."

I'm speechless. I use the bank parking lot to u-turn.

He continues. "My girlfriends in the hospital. I've got to get this check signed so I have to go to the office first. I have to go."
I rub some of the venomous hate off my face and calmly and authoritatively say. "Turn around right now and bring me the film. I need the film and it will only take a few minutes."
"No I can't. I can't wait."
That's it. I loose it.
"I'm calling the boss right now and I will make sure that you never work for us again. Drop off that stuff and get your check signed and frame it because that's the last one from us you'll ever get."
I hang up and call my boss.

"Boss that idiot, Dumbo, wouldn't give me the film. I want you to fire him right now!" I went on to explain in explosive detail the car chase and how he lost the keys and how he lied about knowing how to dub tape." My boss interrupted me.
"Its Dumbo calling me right now." He said.
"Well figure it out with him. I'm going home."
2 minutes later my phone rings. I answer and hang up before Dumbo can say anything.
Dumbo calls again. I decide I better answer. He can bing the film to my house.

"Hello Dumbo"
"I'm at lovers and the tollway. How long will it take you? I'm only going to wait 5 minutes."
"You're an idiot if you have anything to say to me have the boss call and tell me." I hang up.
I call the boss.

"What the hell is going on with Dumbo?"I say.
"Yeah he said he pulled over he's waiting for you."
"He's like 20minutes from me I'm almost home."
"He'll wait."
"Dumbo said the exact opposite. He said he'd wait 5 minutes or he's leaving. That's nuts. I'm going home. I'll take the film tomorrow. I've already spent an hour chasing him I'm not going to do it again."

And I haven't. I went home. But my boss had to go let him into the office because it was locked and he had lied about loosing the key. Just recently he was hired again and wrecked the truck that we use when traveling.

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