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“Pass me that ashtray. Cigar? You don’t smoke? Guess it takes all types.
“So tell me about yourself, why do you wanna work for Bumbo’s Funfair?
“Speak to me, tell me you wanna work eighteen hours a day, seven days a week, sleeping under the wagons, crap pay, staple diet of burgers, surrounded by greasy-haired loner drifters unable to grasp the concept of personal hygiene and who probably regard your sister, your mother and a good looking boy such as yourself as fair game.
“So tell me!
“Oh, you like organ music! Good enough for me. Start tomorrow.”
Written for Rochelle Wisoff-Fields’ weekly 100 word Friday Fictioneer challenge. Dare you?
patrickprinsloo 
Great dialogue, an enjoyable read.
Thanks Dawn.
Great one-sided dialogue. The interviewer forgot to ask the most important question. “Are you so hungry you’ve been eating grass?” Well done, Patrick. —– Suzanne
That would have been the right question!
I loved the line “fail to grasp the concept of personal hygiene” I knew a couple of those guys, Stinky Stillwell and his brother Dewey Phewey
Thank you. Not close friends, I assume.
Great one-sided discourse!
Thank you.
Anyone who likes organs definitely belongs at a FunFair –
or church….
pass me the ashtray, please.
Randy
Plain or filter?
Was it really the organ music….? I see the guy with the voice a bit of an ogre.
Lily
Be gentle with him; he has rides to supervise.
An excellent non-dialogue! Love how it builds up in its description of the awfulness of working at such places, and then, ends with that last line, and quick acceptance. Well-done!
Thanks you very much.
Great one-sided conversation – works really well. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry – very funny/strange piece. But please tell him not to take that job!
Too late; he’s on the pay roller coaster.
Dear Patrick,
The voice in this paints the whole picture of the character. Very well done.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Thanks Rochelle.
When I was a kid, I would have taken the job, too. Great voice, I can almost see that interviewer.
Yeah, he’s the story, I guess.
Great last line!
I think the first line is pretty cool too.
Should run away from the circus to become prime minister a.la John Major.
Clever idea.
You never can tell.
There’s a career path for everyone, isn’t there? No strings to hold me down, the carnie’s life for me. Nah.
On the road! You’re a real romantic.
I think on my balance the organ music would have been another reason not to take a job like that.
Philistine.
Ha! I love the list of things that would make you want to run from the interview yet all the future sap wants is organ music Nicely done.
I think he fancies Mary Bumbo so he’s wanting to stay close. (I made that up – there may not even be a Mary; I have no idea why he wants the job.)
Excellent, Patrick, but how did you become so cynical?
I slept under the wagons and ate those hamburgers in Sault Ste. Marie in Ontario. In my youth, I should add.
Such an “exciting” part of Canada…. 😉
Apart from Montreal, is any place?
Well… there must be others, though I am partial. I live 15 minutes away..
That’s cool – that’s all it took to get the job – like the organ music.
Sammy Bumbo plays the organ himself sometimes.
Haha!
Sounds like an offer no-one could refuse. Nice take.
Thanks Sandra.
If only all jobs were so easy to get…
Hmmm. Just keep trying.
Very entertaining Patrick, enjoy your shorts! Good dialogue
Thanks Richard. Do I expect to see one of your here?