Why I Am a Danger to the Public

I immediately became very familiar with Vicki and her small town, my mom once lived in a town like Bolton, where everybody knew somebody. And living in a town like this one you always had eyes watching you. Half way into the story, I became a little worried about what might happen to Vicki. I had heard of companies like Ellington, where having a union didn't stop them from doing what they wanted to do. It seems as though Vicki lived in a town that was considered to be back in the day, a town where only a certain kind were welcome, not her kind. For Vicki that day had come and gone, she didn't care what people thought of her, and what she had to do to get her point across. And because of that Vicki was the spokesperson during the strike at Ellington. Vicki was all mouth, 5'2 and all. Although I wondered in the end if Vicki really felt it was worth it, she had been set up from the start. By people who really didn't care for her, the scabs is what she referred to them as, but if only she had known it would go this far, maybe she would have kept a low profile. Somehow I doubt it though, Vicki stated she was no chickenshit, nor was her grandpa. I admire her because like Vicki, I too wouldn't have gone to work at a place like the "Frosty King", having to wear short skirts, not when you stay in a town where everybody knows you. Why give them another reason to starts rumors about you. I could her them now, "I know she ain't working up at that place wearing them short skirts, knowing she got them kids to support". I couldn't believe Vicki had gotten played by Vonda Fangham, Tommy's girl, also known as the "Wives of Scabs", well soon to be wife. Somehow I think Vickie should have known better, she knew better to believe that Vonda would show up at the picket, without having some kind of agenda or another. I like how the author ended the story, when we found out that Tommy hadn't been in any accident, but was sitting pretty in the Howard Johnson in one piece. I like that Vicki said she too, was in one piece, meaning a one piece jail jumpsuit.