Tales of the Courier – The boondocks serenade
The road is the star. It takes center stage like the only act there will ever be. 1courier watches the show with avid fascination. The road goes on forever. That’s one long running show. He grins. The sun has begun a cameo in the long running show. It is nearing the horizon, and will soon sink below the dividing line of night. He is glad the heat of the day will ease, however there is still a long way to go.
A long way to go, just to reach the boondocks. From there it would take even longer to reach the drop-off location. With this in mind, 1courier checks the m-com link. He is on course. However, there is a discrepancy. The drop-off location is not visible. In fact, he can only see up to a mile before the exact location. He downshifts the ride and then stomps the accelerator pedal. The ride launches forward, and quickly passes a long line of slow traffic.
At least there was the long drive to the drop off location. This made up for some of the mystery. Ordinarily 1courier wouldn’t accept an offer he knew so little about. However, these were special circumstances. Furthermore, the pay was above average. Therefore, how could he decline the offer? And the truth was, he couldn’t.
Tales of the Courier – The Boondocks Serenade
The drop-off was in the boondocks. In fact it was so far in the boondocks, there weren’t any street names.Therefore the delivery was almost entirely by the seat of his pants. This was not surprising. The further away the delivery, the more it relied on old school technique. Technically, 1courier knows where the drop-off is located. Call it intuition. Or experience. Whatever the label, it was all in a day’s work.
Similarly there are at least two good reasons he accepted this offer. The first of which is the payout. Furthermore, it is the payout that caught his attention to begin with. Yet it was only half the reason the offer made sense. The other half was the sidehustle.
1courier delivers for HQ on almost every delivery. However not every delivery happens with HQ. With this in mind, he will be within a few miles of another pickup when he arrives in the boondocks. Similarly he will be able to cover the second delivery while finishing the first drop-off. And now, he has arrived in the invisible zone of delivery. It is a wooded area and doesn’t appear to be out of the ordinary. However, the navigation screen on the m-com link showed a big nothing. Just an indistinguishable blank zone.
Boondocks Serenade
It takes another ten minutes to locate the exact drop-off spot. Once he locates it, the last leg of the journey goes up a long winding side road. At the top there is a landing and here is his destination. However, something is off kilter as he exits the ride. He is carrying the cargo, and the air is heavy with the scent of the surrounding woods.
As he approaches the structure in the clearing, he notices a strange sound. It seems to be coming from within the strange building. As he listens he can’t help but feel mystified. The sound is eerily familiar, yet it has him completely transfixed. His pace slows even more, as he listens to the sweetness of the boondocks serenade.
Now, inexplicably he has stopped. He cannot move. Furthermore, he does not want to move. He feels his internal universe flowing out, and away from him, as he listens to the intensifying sound, coming from the structure. He is now rooted to the spot and he is fine. In fact, 1courier likes the idea of growing roots. He grins. And freezes that way.
Tales of the Courier
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