A Short Wait

Harry is an impatient man. While he drives downtown to pick up his father at a bus station, he chides his underlings by phone on their sales techniques "What are we fishing? We don't wait. We act." And Harry does act. Don't try to cut him off in traffic. He'll get you... even if it means he has to run you off the road to do it. At the bus station, Harry is nothing if not frustrated. He can't get information. The lovely Information Woman seems determined, however inadvertently, to make his life a living hell. There are few vacant seats. It's about to rain. His father's bus is late. And when a seat finally does open up, it's beside an Old Man who looks like he's dead. What can Harry do... but wait... which he hates. A Terminal employee removes the Old Man from beside Harry because he's fallen asleep. You can't sleep here, Harry's told. Harry is perplexed and ready to get out of this place. When Harry's father finally arrives, he apologizes for being late and notes the irony in the fact that he and Harry are about to board the same bus. Board a bus? Not Harry! He’s not going anywhere in a bus. But the driver assures him that this is his bus, and they drive off, passing a bad accident on the Interstate, the type no one walks away from. Harry's car demolished.