Your Chariot Awaits by Lorena McCourtney

Author:Lorena McCourtney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2010-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

18

On Friday morning I called people in several insurance offices in Vigland, people I knew from a loose network of working together in the past. Some said their offices weren’t looking for anyone at the moment, but they’d be happy to keep my résumé on file. I took the résumé I’d typed up (am I the only person in the world still using an old electric typewriter instead of a computer?), ran off copies at a photocopy shop, and dropped them off.

One woman I talked to confided that when another local office had an opening a few days ago, they’d been inundated with ex-F&N employees. “My daughter over in Seattle says the Internet is the only way to go when you’re looking for a job these days,” she added.

I felt vaguely dinosaurish. “A whole different world from how job hunting used to be.”

“Right. But it’s how all her friends do it. Though they’re looking mostly at big-corporation-type jobs, I think.”

“Thanks. I may have to try that.” But Vigland didn’t have any big corporations, and relocating was far down on my list of life choices. Thinking I might do better in Olympia, I expanded the job search to an employment agency over there that afternoon. The woman nodded approvingly when she saw my résumé.

“Looks good,” she said. But she also said finding the right job could take time, especially if I wanted to stay in insurance, because they were getting so many applications from F&N people.

I assured her I wasn’t welded to insurance.

“SO MONDAY I try the city and county government offices and the schools,” I told Joella on Saturday. It was a warm evening, and we were sitting barefoot on my back patio, sipping lemonade. “I was offered a job with the county years ago, but I decided to go with F&N instead.”

“I got my job through a newspaper ad. Though it isn’t the kind of job you’re looking for, of course.”

“I’ll try that too.”

“Are you thinking any more about a limousine service? I still think it’s a great idea.”

“In case you haven’t noticed, there’s a problem.”

“Okay, no limousine. But you’re going to get it back one of these days.”

The phone rang in the living room. I set my lemonade glass on the little metal patio table and padded in through the sliding glass doors.

“Hey, sidekick, how’re you doing? Got that murder figured out yet?”

Fitz! I was surprised and a little annoyed at how glad I was to hear from him. Glad enough that I let the “sidekick” thing pass without a challenge. “I’m working on it. You’re back at the marina?”

“Yeah. We won’t be going out again until Tuesday.”

I gave him a rundown on my activities, including the possibility of Jerry’s father-in-law being involved in the murder and my finding out that Jerry had never actually been divorced. Which gave me the irrelevant thought that perhaps what the world really needed was a detective agency specializing in investigating the jerks who wander into a single woman’s life. Call it the CTBO Agency, for Check the Bum Out.

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