Circle Line

Good lord. You can hardly hear the guide over the engine.

You can’t hear it if you’re complaining.

I wanted to do the double-decker tour like we saw on TV.

We can see the whole of New York with this one.

Can’t wait to talk to the boys at the office. What did you do in New York? Oh, sat on a fucking boat for six hours.

Hush. Look there! See it? The Statue of Liberty.

Huh.

Remember in The Godfather when Vito sees it for the first time?

Vito had a better view. It’s a mile away at least.

 

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These Days Is Different

I seen kids with no more than two weeks of truck school out there hauling loads.

Margins are so tight companies don’t give a shit about safety.

Think about that next time you’re passing a truck on the freeway.

I come up in the union days. Teamsters.

We had pride then.

Sure, there was bad apples, pillheads and drunks and even a serial killer or two.

More thieves than anything in them days.

Mobsters.

Bosses would tell you to disappear a trailer or two, and by God you better do it.

They’d take care of you.

One way or another.

 

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