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We
\n knew something was up as soon as we arrived to work yesterday morning
\n to find our building surrounded by cops, squad
\n cars illegally parked on each corner, and a line of Boston City and State
\n Police motorcycles out back, lining the appropriately named Dummer St.
\n A gang of elegantly suited but inherently dangerous looking individuals
\n with antennae growing out their ears were blocking the doorway from
\n the garage to the lobby, where the hard -core smokers hang out when the
\n weather is bad.<\/p>\n
As it instinctually is in situations like these, out first
\n thought was that the gig was up, and some forgotten incident in our
\n checkered past had finally caught up with us. However, when we heard
\n some of the surly secret agents conversing with their lapels in a familiar
\n foreign tongue and cadence, we were able to place them. Mossad! <\/p>\n
Memories of our teenaged detention and deportation from
\n the Holy Land at the hands of this most secret of secret services came
\n flooding back like a tidal wave of hot ethnic glue. Their parting words,
\n as they
\n put
\n us
\n on
\n the plane
\n at
\n Lod Airport had been "We’ll be keeping an eye on you." Had we somehow,
\n after all the years, run afoul of the International Jewish Conspiracy
\n once
\n again?<\/p>\n
So it was with some relief upon gaining our office to learn Working downstairs from WBUR<\/a> is Now, in order to make ends meet, the Dowbrigade has a whole Said friend last month reported he was sending on a check How, you may ask (as did we), could they not have noticed You can be sure that Monday morning, bright and early, Peres story from the WBUR We knew something was up as soon as we arrived to work yesterday morning to find our building surrounded by cops, squad cars illegally parked on each corner, and a line of Boston City and State Police motorcycles out back, … Continue reading
\n that we learned the big to-do was the presence upstairs, in the broadcast
\n studio of WBUR<\/a>, the local NPR affiliate
\n with whom we share a building, of former
\n Israeli
\n Prime Minister Shimon Peres<\/a>, architect of the Oslo Peace Accords. We
\n managed to catch part of the interview from our car. Peres sounded
\n surprisingly optimistic. He predicted a comprehensive Middle Eastern
\n Peace Agreement
\n within five years. From his lips to God’s ear, as we say…..<\/p>\n
\n a mixed blessing. Sometimes
\n they call us upstairs to collect leftover chicken and tuna wraps and
\n the flavors of soda no body else wanted after they throw a catered conference
\n or meeting. Being ESL teachers pathetically thankful for any semblance
\n of a perc, we trot upstairs and grovel thankfully. On the other
\n hand, we strongly suspect it is they who call Tony’s Towing EVERY time
\n we try to park downstairs
\n in the garage with an expired parking sticker. But we never
\n really wished them ill, being a non-profit and all, until today.<\/p>\n
\n slew of low- and no- paying side jobs in a variety of industries, including
\n serving as webmaster and web journal editor for a small but elite public
\n relations firm with numerous public sector clients whose owner, an old
\n friend from college days, wishes to remain anonymous within the confines
\n of this blog, for obvious reasons.<\/p>\n
\n for the princely sum of $344, for services rendered. The fact that it
\n had
\n still not arrived was neither surprising nor unprecedented, and the Dowbrigade
\n by nature is the kind of person who only thinks about money when he has
\n none. However, today our erstwhile part-time employer reported receiving
\n a nice letter from WBUR thanking him for his donation of $344! The cheeky
\n bastards! They cashed our check!<\/p>\n
\n that the check was not made out to WBUR, but rather to a teacher who
\n worked downstairs? It took us a minute to figure it out, and then the
\n light went on. They thought it was directed to the OTHER
\n MICHAEL FELDMAN<\/a>,
\n whose show, Whad’ya Know?<\/a> is carried
\n on their station! They thought
\n it was a contributor so enamored by that piece of whimpylib propaganda
\n that they wanted to send in a nice round amount for its perpetuation
\n and diffusion!<\/p>\n
\n we will be up there in that office, demanding our cash and threatening
\n a lawsuit. Why, that’s Check Fraud, or Tampering with the US Mail, or
\n something. We feel righteous indignation welling up just thinking about
\n it. We are capable of making a major scene. As long as there aren’t
\n any of those Mossad agents still hanging around….<\/p>\n
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