Dirty Jobs, The Sequel

also posted to 100words.net, October batch

"What an wonderful smell you've discovered!" -- Han Solo, to Princess Leia, in Star Wars: A New Hope

The saga continues…

Today Roto-Rooter Man is visiting our house. Our main sewer line is backed up with who-knows-what, and, needless to say, it’s affected out lifestyle.

It takes a special person to be a Roto-Rooter man. It must. You have to clean up other peoples’ crap. What drives someone like that, I wonder? Where do they get their passion? How many times do they vomit before they start to get used to the smell?

These questions and more run through my brain as our hero, Roto-Rooter Man makes the world, or at least, our house, safe for democracy again.