Listen Up
A couple of day later I was half an hour into a stationary
bike ride at the gym. Sweat pooled on the floor beneath me as I raced toward a
personal best. An old man tottered up to me, stood not a foot away and said,
“Hey, you sweat a lot.”
He said it loudly enough for me to hear him clearly even
with my earbuds in. “My wife was
sweaty,” he said shaking his head. “Don’t miss that about her.”
I smiled trying to seem polite but disinterested. “Her
people were sweaty,” he added.
He was an old man looking for someone to talk to. I thought,
‘why me?’, but I took out my earbuds, slowed down, and listened.
Today I will listen to someone who needs to talk.
Summer with the Slug
Rats © 2020 by Ken Montrose
Summer with the Slug
Rats is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone
you might know is purely coincidental.
Other works by Ken
Montrose are available at:
www.greenbriartraining.com
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