This Box Doesn’t Look Quite Right
Part 6 of The Box.
Welcome to part Six of The Box. To be less confused, start here if you haven’t already. Part One. Part Two. Part Three. Part Four. Part Five.
The delivery driver pulled up in the middle of nowhere.
He checked the GPS. The GPS was right. The GPS is always right.
He checked the back of the van. Six 12V refrigerators. He noticed one of the boxes was a different size. Better call.
“This box doesn’t look quite right”
“Does it scan OK?”
“Fine”
The only building in sight was a dilapidated pink shed. The electricity was connected.
A person emerged from the shed, cigarette hanging from his lip, with a hand trolley.
“I’ve got a delivery for an A Person, I’m going to need a signature.”
The person with the trolley removed their dentures and rotated them. On the inside was engraved:
A PERSON 1/1/1970
“Take photo”
A Person loaded up the fridges, wheeled them away and vanished back into the shed.
Chloe was waiting for me at reception. As we walked the warehouse I discovered that my knowledge of boxes had been mysteriously expanded. Chloe was impressed, I could see the way she was ticking ✅ her clipboard.
“You’re going to put Gerald to shame.”
Chloe handed over the keys and I settled into my new office. It was an improvement on the pet pens.
The phone rang.
“I’ve got this return. Six refrigerators. Dropped it off this morning. But all the boxes are now different sizes. Seems suspicious.”
“Do they all scan OK?”
“Just a moment, seems OK?”
“Bring them in.”
OMG, Chloe is flirting with me, she must have been impressed with my knowledge of boxes.
I mean, she’s pretty hot, especially the way she holds her clipboard.
But right now, all my thoughts are with the box. Soon, we’ll be together again, I just know it.
Should I give the box a name? I can’t keep referring to it as the box, can I? No, the box is the box. Every other box is just “a box”. Six boxes? How will I know which one is the box? I will know, won’t I?
There was a knock at the door. “Come in.”
The returns, consisting of six boxes, were placed on the desk.
Five smaller boxes and one box about the exact same size as the box.