Like Heroes Often Do
It’s been a long day. Being a hero is hard work. First of all, there is being on call 24/7. There are days when I don’t get any sleep. Try to be in top form when you haven’t slept for 48 hours.
And then there is the laundry. Did you ever notice that all superheroes always wear the same costume? You may not notice, because we only video the clean scenes, but our suits do get dirty. And after 48 hours of nonstop rushing from here to there, fighting crime or should I say grime, let’s just say you don’t want to be in a closed room with us. Suffice it to say our superpowers after 48 hours of sweat are more like stupor powers if you get too close to us.
So lucky for us, there is a chain of Super Laundromats located throughout the city. Basically you drop your suit off in a plain brown bag, you are given an encrypted number, and it is returned to you within minutes. No names are taken, there are no cameras, no retina scans needed. It usually works pretty well. I only had one mishap when there was a big rush on cleaning due to this catastrophic event in Central City. There were just too many of us that wanted our suits cleaned at the same time. With our ID numbers randomly assigned, it turned out that, by chance, two of us were given the same number.
All I can say is that I don’t fit well in Wonder Woman’s costume. It took us half a day to sort it all out since no one actually knew who we were.
Of course, as your typical superhero, I have a day job also. Everyone needs one to maintain the secrecy of their identity. My job – I’m a school bus driver. Talk about needing superpowers. Only the bus dispatcher, knows my secret identity, which is good for when I’m needed to save the world. She arranges for another driver to take over my route at the nearest bus stop. I’m surprised that none of the students ever question, why their bus drivers keep switching during bus runs and at different places. But then again they’re high school students and for the most part, they are all locked into their phones and tablets on headphones and have no clue what is happening around them.
That’s how my day goes. Be a hero here, be a bus driver there, get my clothes done when I have to, like all heroes often do. And don’t get me started about bathroom breaks.
