Who Made The Cut?
There was a dark cloud forming and Hal’s well-planned strategy for three or more years was ready to be confronted with threatening weather.
“Where is Dale?” The young entrepreneur asked sitting under a Royal Palm tree where they were supposed to meet, and they decided the landmark that overlooked a stream that flowed into the gulf be the designated spot.
“It had just left,” a shout came in the distance and the disturbance made Hal stand up, “C’est parti, the colony pulled out at the last moment."
“What we were looking for,” Dale finally came close enough to talk, “Vandalia, we were claiming to have a show there, but the town does not exist anymore.”
Headliner Miss Beth’el within a second, was put in her place.
“Wow, what happened?” Hal inquired.
“She was full of attitude and out of the money,” Dale explained about the long shot,” and this award-winning editor used the splicer to eliminate the performance.”
“What happened to the footage?
Dale shrugged his shoulders, “as a maiden she does have an option to claim the reason the editor made the adios baby move was due to being out of the money.”
“Let’s get back to civilization.”
It took the pair enough time and they went straight to the office.
“What is this?” Hal blasted and the receptionist seemed shaken.
“Who is Rosie?” Dale followed up.
“She is the one who has the scissors and goes snippety snip snip when taking what she wants out.”
“Let me see here Rosie’s Halo is worn when the editor wants to put something in its place."
As the receptionist responded with an affirmative gesture Hal produced an idea, “we have Vandalia file photos?”
“Yes, from when it was here three or more years ago,”
“We can use that as background and have Miss Beth’el recite ‘Mary Quite Contrary’ and she would be the winner.”
“Extraordinary scheme, Hal,” Dale agreed starting to make phone calls.
A few days later during prime time the entertainment broadcast aired, and Rosie sat on her sofa with a snack bucket thinking she knew who the champion would be when the credits rolled. Then after a commercial break there was a theatrical introduction for Miss Beth’el reading ‘Mary Quite Contrary.’ As Rosie turned flowerily red the show audience displayed miles of smiles.
“I thought I snippety snapped her out for being full of attitude,” Rosie screamed.
“You did,” the television replied, “but we decided to insert here.”
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