A Man Is Worth A Thousand Pictures

by Erik Deckers

About the Author: Erik Deckers is the president of Pro Blog Service, a content marketing and social media marketing agency. He is also the co-author of three books on personal branding and social media marketing. Erik has been blogging since 1997, and a newspaper humor columnist since 1994. He has written several radio and stage plays, and numerous business articles. Erik was the Spring 2016 writer-in-residence at the Jack Kerouac House in Orlando, FL, and now serves on their board of directors.

Excerpt

Bonnie dropped into her chair, and flipped on her computer. Seven thirty, and already she was hot. She unbuttoned her sweater, flicking errant lint and hairs from her front as she did.

“Why is it always so dang hot in the morning?” she said to herself, whipping her sweater onto her chair.

Bonnie went to the break room and saw no one had made coffee. As usual, she had to make it. She thumped around, mumbling about the sorry state of things until she realized she was the only one there.

“Of course no one made it, ding dong,” she said out loud. “No one’s here. What a goofball!” She smacked her forehead and snorted a small laugh. Still, she looked around to make sure the office was empty. “Fresh coffee, and then I can see how he’s doing.”

“State of Florida SunPass” read her monitor. “Admin login.” Bonnie began looking in this morning’s photos. She quickly found him at his usual tollbooth, waving to her on the tollbooth camera, big smile for her, eyes twinkling. She waved back, and saved the photo to her phone, plugged into the USB port.

She switched to Sunday, 8:15 a.m., and searched. There he was, holding a cup of coffee and smiling.

And there she was again—Sheila!—rolling her eyes, looking annoyed. Bonnie could imagine what she said. “Why do you always do that? No one can see you.”

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