Around 2003 Johnnie Walker produced a short video to promote their whisky. It showed a school of fish moving in the same direction. The fish took a human form, and while swimming close to the surface, they started jumping out of the water. It was then that one of them, coming closer to shore, put his feet on the seabed, stood erect out of the sea and started walking. The caption of the video then read, “Take the first step. Keep walking.”
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
I had just inserted the key in the office door when I heard the phone ringing. It was 8.30 am. Since Monday was my day off, on Tuesdays I am usually welcomed with a lot of small papers pushed underneath the door by the inmates. I thought it was too early for the phone; so I did not answer it. While I was collecting all these bits of papers and skimming through the various requests, the phone rang again. This time I answered.
“Carmel, you’re the one that I want.” I recognized Deputy White’s voice. “Can you come to my booth as soon as possible, please?”
I left the papers on the desk, made sure that the door was locked behind me and walked down the hallway. That morning, Deputy White was working in the school dorm called “5550.” I knocked on the door and he buzzed me in the deputies’ booth—a small dark elevated room with a panel full of buttons which controlled everything which happened in the dormitory from opening and closing doors to putting on and off the lights. The whole room was surrounded by a thick dark glass window, thus, the deputies had a 270º view ranging from the open bathroom and showers, to the sleeping bunks and the recreation area where the TV was. The deputies always kept the lights of their booth off so that the inmates could not see through the windows.
Bro Carmel Duca MC
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