Fitzroy Gets A Job

Family Kitchen

Often jobs are lost before the applicant has even applied

FITZROY GETS A JOB

The breakfast things were in the dishwasher, the paper had been delivered, a new pot of coffee was brewing, the man looked up and spoke to his spouse

Fitzroy got a job

Didn’t know he had applied for one

Oh yes, all done online

Has he got bear-friendly access

They cobbled some bits together they found in the playbox and hacked into a network. Bingo

Called it teddy.net

So, what’s the job

Well, is it:

A Toilet Attendant

B Clerical Assistant

C Fund Manager

I’m not playing silly games, just tell me

Well actually none of them

Sorry, apropos fund managers, do they still wear those bowler hats in the City

Yes, but now they keep their drugs in them

Did you take drugs when you worked in the City

Why do you think they fired me

What, for taking drugs, I thought…

No, for not taking drugs darling, ha ha ha (laughter shook the Mews)

Good he is able to laugh about it now, she though

Everything’s changing, London’s changed so much

Not in our Mews, not in our little corner of tranquillity and sanity. It will be a long time before we are swallowed up by change. Listen, I can almost hear the sounds of the horses on the cobble stones from yesteryear. Hear the shouts of the merchants advertising their wares in the nearby streets, the whistles of the bobbies chasing some villain

Oh I do like it when you get poetic, well, sometimes

Remember when you used to send me little rhymes

OK darling, have another gin, only joking, anyway Fitzroy has been fired

What already

Yep, some problem with his CV. Nasty little online spat and they ended up calling him a bear-faced liar

Oh he must be upset, he must need a hug, I must go to him

Not Fitzroy, he’s tough, I sometimes think he is stuffed with horsehair not kapok

But now you mention it he looked a bit subdued and wet round the eyes at breakfast

That was the little one, she practically hugged him to death

But does she understand what’s going on

No, but she knew something was up, burst into tears and Fitzroy was in the frontline. And what with the others, Fitz is all hugged out. Surprised he even made it to breakfast. Now, well he just wants to move on

The man picked up a paper, his spouse activated her android device, the kids were at school, and Fitzroy was resting.

Tranquillity returned to the Mews.