Armagedon
'Who is it?' I shouts. Coronation Street was about to start when the doorbell rang. People's got no consideration these days.
Sure to be one of them I thought, folk collecting for the blind, the deaf, the old.- The old, that's a laugh! I'm old aren't I? Well nobody gives me nothing, I even had to pay for my own teeth.
Still look on the bright side I don't 'ave to go to the dentist no more.
It was a man. I see him through the glass of the door.
'What's that you say? Got good news for me. Oh ay, what's that then?' Can't be the pools 'cos I don't do them. Got better things to do with my money.
My hubby did the pools for forty years. He won once. Eight draws, he was that excited thought he'd be a millionaire turned out he'd won 35 pence.
'Do I use my bible?' He shouts through the letter box.
Nosy beggar. What's it got to do with him? As a matter of fact I do, all the time since a foot came off the sideboard.
He wants me to open the door- 'Well all right,' I say, but I'm keeping the chain on.
He's a nice looking young man I'll grant you that. Fair hair, could do with cutting, still it's better than those what look like paleface Indians. I don't know what my hubby would say if he were alive. Got nice eyes, bright blue, dressed well too. A suit, not scruffy jeans and sweater like most of them these days.
He wants to come in. ‘What for? I've got nothing to sell and I'm not parting with my bible it's too useful. I got that from school- the only useful thing they ever give me.'
'Now I sure am glad to hear that Ma-am,' he says. ‘Perhaps we could read it together.’
‘Oh I don’t read it. No, it's a support.’
He told me somebody with a funny name- Arma something was coming. That put the wind up me I can tell you. I told him I was busy but he kept on, and then I heard Coronation Street start. 'Look,' I said, 'I've got to go.'
'Is that Coronation Street?' He said. 'I’d love to watch it.’
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