Blake Nelson
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The Choice
Giorgio Romero, commonly known as Georgie, lifted the cushions from the floral pattern sofa which had recently been donated to the thrift store at which he worked. He proceeded to insert his gloved hand deep inside the space between the seat and back of the sofa. Usually, he found little more than old food crumbs, some loose change, an occasional remote control, and miscellaneous dirty garments in donated furniture. Sometimes they were fairly clean other times pretty disgusting, but Georgie was used to just about anything he came across. This particular sofa wasn’t much different he did find a few coins worth about seventy-eight cents, a dollar bill, and a small black book which people kept addresses and phone numbers. Georgie quickly flipped through the pages to find the pages seemed to be blank as if the book was new and suddenly lost to the owner before it could be used. He slipped the book into his back pocket and pocketed the money into his front pocket, perks of the job! He finished cleaning the sofa using a vacuum to suck the remainder of the dirt and crumbs into the canister and replaced the cushions back onto the seat. Once finished Georgie headed to the supervisor’s office and peeked his head through the door, “Just wanted to let you know I finished up cleaning that sofa in the back. I’m going to clock out and take off Bob if that’s alright?” Bob looked up from his computer screen towards Georgie and said “That’s fine buddy, it’s your Friday I hope you have a nice weekend. Thanks for your hard work as always.” Georgie half saluted with his forefinger and middle fingers and headed out of the building.
By Blake Nelson3 years ago in Futurism