My Year of the Racehorse (2012)
“But earlier that week she got into an argument with her supervisor for—you won’t fucking believe it—swearing. Complaining about Randi swearing, of course, is like complaining about anyone else for blinking.
“I wasn’t fucking swearing at him, just swearing, but he sent me to the principal’s office,” she explains to me before Blackie’s race in her break room. “So I went to the doctor and he went, ‘What do you want—stress leave?’ We looked at the calendar and I said, ‘September 5th.’ And he sa...id, ‘Okay.’ So, I didn’t work today—and it was cool.”
As Randi gets the horse ready, I return to the frontside to meet Harris and his family. Even while the stadium lights breathe away the darkness on the oval, there’s still a ribbon of amber in the sky at Hastings. Typically, a summer night in the city is capped off with a cool breeze—cardigan weather for some—but this week in July the air is warm and flat.
Actually, it’s Angie who shows up first, with Liam and Jack in tow.MoreLess
“I wasn’t fucking swearing at him, just swearing, but he sent me to the principal’s office,” she explains to me before Blackie’s race in her break room. “So I went to the doctor and he went, ‘What do you want—stress leave?’ We looked at the calendar and I said, ‘September 5th.’ And he sa...id, ‘Okay.’ So, I didn’t work today—and it was cool.”
As Randi gets the horse ready, I return to the frontside to meet Harris and his family. Even while the stadium lights breathe away the darkness on the oval, there’s still a ribbon of amber in the sky at Hastings. Typically, a summer night in the city is capped off with a cool breeze—cardigan weather for some—but this week in July the air is warm and flat.
Actually, it’s Angie who shows up first, with Liam and Jack in tow.MoreLess
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