Thursday, October 26, 2006

military drama in the meat department

Brickyard pizza with green chile & tomato, water, an emergen-C

In the meat department of a grocery store. Admiral Adama is there, as well as several officers who are all wearing white tyvek coveralls, including booties. The officers have been discovered scheming and plotting against order and are being stripped of their rank. They are embittered and furious. Part of their punishment is that they have to...go through the frozen meat section...? But in the process one of the officers discovers an operational manual that reveals that he and his cabal should have been issued certain weapons and were not. It makes Adama look tyrannical and exclusionary, that he's been ducking procedure and that the plotters were right. Now he's the one who is furious. He holds his story that he was unaware that they had been denied their weapons, but I'm not certain if people believe him or not. He orders an investigation. If the weapons weren't issued, then where are they? They aren't in proper storage.

Attention turns to a skinny teenage girl who is in charge of below-counter cold storage units in the meat department. She and her 7 year old sister start dithering, trying to cover something up. But my mother and I are there to find the truth out. We start opening up the freezer drawers. The teenage girl is fretful and insists that she did nothing wrong. The little sister starts running interference. She puts on an obscene lip-synch (or is she actually singing in a man's voice?) of a vulgar rap song. Mom and I watch in dismay, and when she is done we express to her that what she's doing is no good for a kid her age, that she doesn't understand what her little number is aboout, that she should just take time to be a kid instead of a whore. I'm afraid that we will shame her and push her further, though, rather than bring her back down to earth.

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