Tuesday 1 August – IT SUITS HER, Episode One

By
William E. Spear

Volume 2, Issue 01

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Full Transcript –

IT SUITS HER, Episode 01

ORIGINAL DATE: 1 August 2023

(Theme for It Suits Her comes up)

Hello this is The 3:57 by William E. Spear and I am the aforementioned William Spear.

Our new series is titled IT SUITS HER. This episode will be told by one of the two lead characters, Argosy Williams . . . nicknamed Maxie. He is going to introduce himself in a moment. Expect his voice to sound like mine.

The other major character is Celia Court. She has a nickname, too, she’ll share that pretty soon. Somewhat coincidentally she will sound like me, too.

They will meet – and, really, collide is a better word – in a tailoring shop.

Until then, this is Episode One of . . . IT SUITS HER.

(Theme for Smart Styles Tailoring Shop fades up and under)

Hello. I’m Maxie Williams. I am on my way to an appointment and need to pick up my suit from a tailor in downtown Flemington, New Jersey.

Before I can retrieve my suit, I will need to navigate Celia Court. She is easily the most obstinate . . . most infuriating . . . most annoying person I have ever met.

It is like looking in a mirror and seeing myself thirty years younger.

That encounter will come later. For now, she is balancing her boyfriend and job by way of her cell phone. If you lean a bit closer you can just begin to hear her.

“Hello. . . . I can only talk for a moment. . . . No, I’ll be there later. . . . We don’t close the shop until nine. . . . I can’t, Mr. Clarkson will hear me.”

Mr. Clarkson, the owner of the shop, bellowed: “Miss Court!”

Celia bent even closer to her cell phone and whispered even lower: “I have to go. Mr. Clarkson might . . .”

“I might what, Miss Court?” Clarkson boomed.

Celia stuttered, stammered, and stuttered again, “You might want me to do something important? Maybe?”

Clarkson resumed his interrogation: “Were you talking on your cell phone again?”

“No, sir, I were not. I mean I was not. Definitely not. No way, no how, no sir. In fact, I was just saying to myself what a brilliant manager you are and I . . .”

Clarkson cut her right off, “Miss Court. Were you, or were you not, talking on your cell phone again?”

Celia searched through her twenty years of life experience looking for precisely the right response: “My friends call me Ceel.”

“Miss Court!” snapped Clarkson.

“Yes, Mr. Clarkson.”

Clarkson halved the distance between himself and the assistant manager: “Were you on your cell phone?”

“Yes, but . . .”

Clarkson slipped into his most lawyerly voice and sounded as if he was addressing the jury in a capital crime: “Miss Court based upon your own your words in the matter of you on your cell phone for the seventh time in your shift, you leave me no choice but to . . .”

(Theme for Smart Styles Tailoring Shop fades up and under)

You’ve just listened to Episode One of IT SUITS HER.

Series theme is through the courtesy of Michael Kobrin. Additional music is by Lesfm. Both are at PixaBay.

The Three Fifty-seven is written and produced by William Spear.

Thank you for listening.

(Theme for It Suits Her fades up and under)

WES