A Man From the City Is Here to Read the Gas Meters

A man from the city is here to read the gas meters upstairs. He had on a green and purple shirt with bold stripes, like the host blue's cluhes. I didn't notice at the time, but he wasn't dressed as a city official. The man on the street asked us repeatedly if we were ok, if we needed him to stay and wait in the yard with us until our parents came home. It was the sixties, and obviously we weren't going back in the house to call the authorities on the land line phone. Then my ever resourceful sister had a stroke of genius. She called loudly into the house, ah, dad, it's good your home

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