First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ There’s Something Fishy About My Boyfriend by Gloria Duke
With the phone cradled between my should and my ear, I squatted down and sifted through the contents of the lost and found box that we kept behind the front desk. At the Sunny Side Bed-and-Breakfast, we’d learned to save everything left behind that wasn’t perishable, illegal, or off-the-charts gross.
Sunglasses… swim trunks… hear extensions…
Aha!
“I’ve got a pink sweatshirt that says bitch in black letters,” I told the woman on the phone.
“No!” she cried, getting distraught. “It’s a black sweatshirt. And it says bitch in rhinestone studs.”
As I dug around and did another quick search, Casey, my parents’ big, shaggy rescue mtt, strolled over and poked his nose in the box to help.
“Sorry,” I said into the phone. We don’t have it.
From the way the woman groaned, you’d have thought she’d lost a valuable family heirloom instead of a novelty item that could be purchased at any T-shirt shop along the Jersey Shore. “Thanks for nothing,” she said in a tone befitting the moniker on her missing shirt.
