At a supermarket checkout looking through a window on May Day.
A. So I missed the May Day parade again.
B is posh town parking lot.
C. I don't know.
A. The working class usually stops right outside to sing "The Internationale".
B is Alex and his droogs: Alex sports American-flag shorts and a white polo shirt; they all wear red hats and run-walk past like dancers, cocaine-not-knowing what to do with their hands, talking and laughing but no sound passes through the window.
C: I'm not from here I don't know what they do but it wouldn't surprise me.
A: Well, it would surprise me.
B is a cloudy afternoon.
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Author's Note
I should have photographed Alex and his droogs, but they turned up in the middle of a joke that was going better than I expected so I was slow on the draw with my camera.
By the time I got to the parking lot, they had boarded a train that was pulling away.
"A train eh? How convenient" I can hear you say.
It's implausible, I know.
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I've had the same fever dream. Something going around.
Thanks for the reads.
B is Manchester-by-the-sea Massachusetts. Yes the town is as it sounds. And that's part of what made the situation funny.
I love this line: "I'm not from here I don't know what they do but it wouldn't surprise me." (among other things here). *
I love this line: "I'm not from here I don't know what they do but it wouldn't surprise me." (among other things here). *
I love the summary way you deal with the proposition of scene-setting. Or maybe scene, setting.
Also "the working class," as roving carolers.
Thanks for the reads and stars.
I like the idea of treating the setting as a character. There may be more to be done along that line.