Showing posts with label Boilermakers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boilermakers. Show all posts

Sunday, August 10, 2008

HEAVY COMPANY


STROUDSBURG PA: APRIL 8

The boss directs his sidekick round the block to a small, brick-built bike shop. A notice on the door proclaims the shop closed.
I am a Brit and a Blimp. Elderly Brit Blimps don't hammer on shop doors on a Sunday evening.
Boilermakers do.
Trail bikes crouch behind the shop window. The door quakes in its frame. The frame leaks cement at the edges.
I dread a burglar alarm, cops, jail...