TELE-Tales by Tony Ryan

Author:Tony Ryan [Ryan, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781412218108
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2006-09-05T00:00:00+00:00

I walked outside to take a leak one night as the temperature read minus fifty-two with no wind. The sky was so clear I could see last year, I felt it was an experience to witness such conditions but once was enough. Over the next ten days, the yellow snow grew to line both sides of the path from the building ten meters to the road and the effects of hot urine on minus fifty degree aluminum siding was becoming obvious.

“Not much we can do,” moaned Paul after six reasonably uneventful days passed.

“Sure there is we can complain,” I answered after a flash of brilliance I usually reserve for getting myself out of some more pressing jam.

I called many people and vividly described our situation. Suddenly people were fighting to help us first. One crew came flying in to insulate the crawlspace. Another came to fix the water and sewage. They failed, but when they pulled the forty-meter steel fish-tape from the acid-filled toilet, it was only one meter long.

They call it the Logistics Department for some unclear reason.

Of course, it was not our personal plight requiring action. Supposedly, the switch could not work in such temperatures or humidity, and everyone worried about damage delaying the cutover.

We had done most of the work on this last trip to the North for Paul, I would have to continue and execute the cutover alone. Paul had finished his two years and they set him free to work in Thunder Bay. Gone was one of the most levelheaded guys I had spent time out with because he was quiet and patient and could cover enough topics to be interesting. He also could accept the things he could not change and did not bitch from some cranky rejection caused state after failing to change what he could.

However! Bell’s people from Trout wanted rid of Paul because they had little affection for him anymore. They complained he was showing signs of isolation stress by spending time in his room working on his computer and working out every second day in the gym room for an hour or so. As well, after the fiberglass fiasco, Paul asked management about the effects of living in Trout outside the Bell Hotel.

The Fortier party had made him feel his privacy didn’t matter and more or less trapped in the place. Nothing too obvious but that stress stuff could be tricky so he moved south and his state recorded. Fred told me how the changes in Paul were coming too fast to count, and he would have to go before there was serious enough damage to warrant compensation and the mention of the condition somewhere outside the company. There was nothing wrong with Paul, Fred liked him and did not want the chance of reported tales of lunacy being true.

The next three weeks were boring but got to hang out with Joe Crow, the local Bellman, as well as the principal and his wife. I made some deals on Polar Bear parts and could have gone out on the frozen Hudson Bay to hunt one if I wanted but declined.

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