The Orange Curtain
“She was erratic, slow for a block, then speeding up for a while as some tune in her head changed, decelerating abruptly, and every now and then drifting a foot into the next lane as her mind went to something else. He thought of asking if she’d ever considered hiring a chauffeur, but it wasn’t a chauffeur sort of car.
Suddenly she pulled over in a red zone, a tow-away zone, and pushed the shifter all the way up into park and looked at him as if she was worried one of them was about to die. “I d...on’t want you to get wrong idea. You look at me and maybe think all Viet Nam people crazy and pushy like me. I not same as them mostly. I told you I want to be big and strong and loud because it’s the squeaky door that gets grease. You got to say what you want in the world. Most Viet Nam people not like that. Americans always want you to represent your people, like everybody got to be a little chip off the big blockade.”
Indeed, he thought. A police car doodled past them. He was a little uneasy about the tow-away zone but he let her run.MoreLess
Suddenly she pulled over in a red zone, a tow-away zone, and pushed the shifter all the way up into park and looked at him as if she was worried one of them was about to die. “I d...on’t want you to get wrong idea. You look at me and maybe think all Viet Nam people crazy and pushy like me. I not same as them mostly. I told you I want to be big and strong and loud because it’s the squeaky door that gets grease. You got to say what you want in the world. Most Viet Nam people not like that. Americans always want you to represent your people, like everybody got to be a little chip off the big blockade.”
Indeed, he thought. A police car doodled past them. He was a little uneasy about the tow-away zone but he let her run.MoreLess
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