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Fight the Power

March 31, 2016 6 Comments

Fight the Power

By Frankie Rembly

Martin’s office phone rang for the fifteenth time that morning with the same prompt from various callers: “Slomo Polecratz, please.”

The irritating calls continued from both men and women. Who was this ‘Slomo Polecratz’?

Martin was aggravated and skipped out early for lunch… He returned to more of the same.

Martin was a small cog in the government, but a conduit to the public. This officious Assistant to the Assistant of Freedom of Information Requests was now beyond disturbed.

Just before five, Martin’s last call came in:

“This is Slomo Polecratz. Any calls for me?”

Familiar laughter flooded Martin’s telephone earpiece.

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  1. clayf says

    March 31, 2016 at 4:33 pm

    This is ingeniously hilarious.

    Reply
    • Frankie Rembly says

      March 31, 2016 at 5:20 pm

      Thanks for the feedback

      Reply
  2. Jo Patterson says

    March 31, 2016 at 5:21 pm

    Loved this….

    Reply
  3. Tiffany Fussell says

    April 1, 2016 at 12:41 pm

    Nice. I feel like I can see this guy.

    Reply
  4. jfxmcl says

    April 2, 2016 at 10:13 am

    Seriously? This is the oldest prank in Telephony history …

    Reply
    • Frankie Rembly says

      April 2, 2016 at 3:09 pm

      And I thought I was be being original, sorry about that…… but I never heard of it before. My sheltered existence, I guess. Thanks for your comment, I will run these things by someone next time to make sure it is original.

      Reply

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