Another passage from Same Time Tomorrow today, from the first chapter, with Chloe having an off day...
She opened her
umbrella as she stepped through the revolving door...and the wind promptly
turned it inside out. "Crap!" she shouted, struggling to fix it. She
stepped forward as a cab pulled up to the curb. She reached it at the same
moment as a sixtyish man resembling a toad who made it clear he wasn‘t giving
it up without a fight.
"Didn't your
mother teach you any manners?" she yelled as he pushed past her and got
into the cab. "Whatever happened to ladies first?"
"Hey, you women
wanted equal rights, so you got no business complaining." The toad
muttered something to the driver and the cab pulled away.
Chloe headed for the
bus stop, muttering expletives under her breath. If she'd had a rock handy, she
would have thrown it. It was on days like this she really missed life in the
flyover....
Poor Chloe...that day started badly. But then she met Gabriel!
ReplyDeleteStarting off from a cynical point of view for her worked well.
ReplyDeleteI've had days like that. And respond about the same way she did. (Although, having worked in a jail for seven years, I guarantee you I would have said something stronger than "crap."
ReplyDeleteToads seem common in real life. Loved the excerpt.
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