Miss Meadows Page #3

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I would like to take you

for an afternoon spin

in my 1970 classic

Chevrolet pickup truck.

I would like that very much.

How, may I ask,

do you know where I work?

I ran your plate.

Your work address came up. I...

- That's illegal.

- Yes, it is. I feel really bad.

I just... I couldn't stop thinking

about this girl

in the middle of the road

holding a toad.

Dead right, I'm sorry.

I apologize to you. I broke the rules.

I think it's okay to break

the rules sometimes.

Good.

You tell your kids that?

What?

That it's okay to break

the rules sometimes?

Well, I remind them of their goodness.

How to...

protect themselves if they're around someone

that they don't think is good.

I like that.

Listen, if kids aren't safe,

if they don't feel safe, we're all lost.

- I like the rain.

- Why?

Makes me feel clean.

I bought this property a few years ago.

And right here, this is where I figured

I would build a house one day.

- Do you have a contractor's licence?

- No, I don't have a contractor's licence

but I will hire someone

to help me, so thank you.

Butterscotch or liquorice?

Sheriff, what may I ask made you choose

law enforcement as your career?

- Fear.

- Of what?

It's a career choice motivated by

the soul-numbing fear that I might end up

- like the rest of my family.

- What does that mean?

Are you familiar with the term convicts?

So you have bad blood.

I don't know if I'd call it that.

Why did you start teaching?

- I'm asking you the questions.

- Oh, really? Okay.

So what's your second...

career choice?

- You have to promise not to laugh.

- No.

No?

- You want me to take a risk?

- Yes, please.

Professional accordion player.

Why?

Why not?

I think it has this obscure beauty.

It's misunderstood.

Did you know that the accordion is the

second least-appreciated musical instrument

right ahead of the bagpipe

and right behind the dead-kitten flute?

No, I did not know that

until right this very moment.

- What may I ask are you doing?

- I'm dancing to your accordion.

I'm not that good.

It's a work in progress.

Isn't everything?

Thank you for the...

the spin and the snack.

You're very welcome.

Miss Meadows.

Yes?

- May I...

- Yes.

Right.

That's gonna cover

that top window pane, right?

- Yep.

- The top and the bottom.

Mrs. Davenport, what are you doing?

Oh, better safe than sorry.

I'm sorry you don't feel safe. I thought

you said the neighbourhood had improved.

Haven't you been reading the newspapers?

The Department of Corrections

released nearly 2000 prisoners

over the last six months

because of "overcrowding."

Now they can only account

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