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Tucked
Robert D. Wenger
“Good evening, this is Wendy Knox your new Channel 5 news anchor.”
Finally, all cameras are on me, Wendy thinks as she presents the evening report. She knows there are thousands of viewers tuned in and she can feel their eyes on her while she performs on her first night as the new evening news anchor.
She reminisces between stories, for years she’s toiled as a reporter getting every crappy job her bosses could throw her way. Well, she took turns with every other reporter but some of those reports on farm animals and howling blizzards were just too much and way below her abilities. She’s tired of writing reports for other newscasters to present in front of the cameras.
“Hey Joe,” the #1 cameraman whispers over his secure mike to cameraman #2.
“What,” #2 cameraman, Joe, whispers back.
“How do ya think she’s doin?”
“OK, I guess. Does it really matter? All the marriages she’s ruined. The execs. aren’t going to dump her now.”
“Yeah man, you know it.”
The news runs on, finally finishing when Wendy gives her big smile to camera #1. “Goodnight everyone, have a great evening and tune in tomorrow.”
“Hey Joe,” camera #1 whispers.
“What now?” Joe responds as he glances at the other cameraman.
“Check out Wendy. When she went to the ladies room during the weather report, she tucked her skirt in her pantyhose.”
“No way.”
“Yeah, look through your lens.”
Joe watches Wendy exit stage right and can see she does have her skirt tucked in. He watches her exposed rear end that all the viewers need to see.
I’m going to film the witch, Joe thinks. No one knows she dumped me to have those affairs that helped move her to the top. He starts filming just before she walks off stage. I wonder if that 10 seconds will be broadcast, he thinks.
I was wonderful, Wendy thinks. I need to get home and check the DVR to see just how wonderful I was. She hustles out of the studio, gets into her car and speeds home.
Wendy turns the key and enters her new spacious apartment. She tosses her purse and keys on the table and rushes into the living room to watch the recorded Channel 5 news.
“Just as I thought,” she talks to her image on the TV. “I look and sound perfect.”
She watches with a smile as she flawlessly recites her lines. Wendy eagerly waits for the newscast to end and the screen to show the Channel 5 logo and list all the newscasters names. Her’s will be on top.
“What the_____?” she shouts.
There’s a picture of her walking off stage with her skirt tucked into her pantyhose and her butt sticking out.
Wendy jumps up and looks behind her and_______. “Oh no,” she says. There’s her skirt still in her pantyhose. She thought it was a little breezy back there.
She starts to cry. “I’ve never been so humiliated,” she sobs. Wait, she realizes that’s camera #2. “That’s Joe’s camera. I’m going to kill that creep when I see him, if I can get up enough nerve to return to the station.”
Why didn’t anyone tell me? Why did they air that? Don’t they like me?
