750-WORD COMPETITION WINNERS
Just passin’ through
by Richard Fox
FIRST PLACE
£200
Having been in the print trade since the early 1970s, Richard Fox has spent the past fifteen years as a driving instructor as well as delivering driver awareness courses in Berkshire. However, he now sees his current role as a hands-on grandparent as his most important and rewarding. Alongside playing tennis and guitar, he has dabbled in writing for twenty years with occasional successes with WM and has written a (yet unpublished) novel.
‘Before you finish your first day of bellhopping, Frecks, how’s about fetching Nathan a coffee?’
That’s what I liked about him. While other clerks treated me like something they’d stepped in, barking orders across the lobby, he spoke to me. And giving me a nickname, although my freckles have long since faded, made me feel he saw a person beneath the stupid uniform I wore. He worked the graveyard shift, so most of the guests had checked in and the lobby was deserted.