It was Monday, February 1, 1988.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Working for the DJ service, the drill was\u00a0to call in every Monday to find out where you’d be working for the coming week.\u00a0\u00a0Guys who did mostly mobile shows – weddings and parties where they’d take a mobile rig out on the road – would get their locations and their rig assignments.\u00a0 Guys who worked clubs – I was one of them – would get what club they were working on what night.\u00a0 It made a handy way of firing people, if you were passive-aggressive; some jocks just stopped getting assignments for a few weeks; they usually took the hint.<\/p>\n
I had the opposite problem.\u00a0 After six weeks of club jocking, the service wished they had another of me.\u00a0 They had me working six nights a week.\u00a0 Which, being paid by the night, was a good thing.<\/p>\n
The previous week:<\/p>\n
George’s was, of course, the highlight of the week.\u00a0 All the more so because of Cathy.<\/p>\n
So I called in for the week’s assignments.\u00a0 I talked with Biff, the spiky-haired guy.<\/p>\n
“Um…”, I started, “No George’s?”<\/p>\n
“Nah” said Biff.\u00a0 “Couldn’t close the deal.\u00a0 We were too expensive”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Crap<\/em>.\u00a0 I was already getting sick of Jams and “Slims”.\u00a0<\/p>\n After I got off the phone, my roommate Dan – the new, gay roommate – walked in.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Did you bring in the mail Friday??<\/p>\n No,\u00a0I answered.<\/p>\n “I was supposed to get my paycheck”.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ow.\u00a0 I’ll keep an eye peeled, I replied.\u00a0 I noted that I’d gotten my <\/em>paycheck…<\/p>\n I filed it away.\u00a0 Maybe Wyatt knew something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was Monday, February 1, 1988.\u00a0 Working for the DJ service, the drill was\u00a0to call in every Monday to find out where you’d be working for the coming week.\u00a0\u00a0Guys who did mostly mobile shows – weddings and parties where they’d take a mobile rig out on the road – would get their locations and their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twenty-years-ago-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}