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Apr. 26th, 2004 02:29 pmDylan challenge, L&O Old School, 119 words.
Hard Times in New York Town
"So let me get this straight. The city won't approve a budget, so the department's funds are frozen, so we can't afford gas and we're stuck out here in this smelly-ass dumpster in ninety-degree weather pretending to be 'sanitation engineers' instead of in a nice cool squadcar. Can't believe I'm missing a poker game for this... How in the hell can you eat that?"
"It's a gift." Lennie grinned and took another bite of his hot dog. "Cheer up Ed, it could be worse. Wait till you see who's taking the next shift."
"Hey! Go find your own dumpster!" Ed barked at the bag lady starting to rummage in the trash.
"Is there a problem, Detective?" Somehow Anita Van Buren had never sounded so patrician, or smelled worse.
Hard Times in New York Town
"So let me get this straight. The city won't approve a budget, so the department's funds are frozen, so we can't afford gas and we're stuck out here in this smelly-ass dumpster in ninety-degree weather pretending to be 'sanitation engineers' instead of in a nice cool squadcar. Can't believe I'm missing a poker game for this... How in the hell can you eat that?"
"It's a gift." Lennie grinned and took another bite of his hot dog. "Cheer up Ed, it could be worse. Wait till you see who's taking the next shift."
"Hey! Go find your own dumpster!" Ed barked at the bag lady starting to rummage in the trash.
"Is there a problem, Detective?" Somehow Anita Van Buren had never sounded so patrician, or smelled worse.
Dreamt about you and Jeopardy last night
Date: 2004-04-26 11:35 am (UTC)And you won $52 million but they kept saying you only won $11,000 even though I could see that your total was $52m.
Go fig.