An Over Night Life: The Unexpected Destination

    The Young American Man was just on time for his flight. He had the most wonderful past three months, and wished he had told its humorous stories, but those three months came to an end. He had lost his amazing job and had finally gone flat broke; living off tuna and potato chips. It was merely two days after he had called, and now he was being flown out to be a mashgiach in a meat processing plant, with the promise to learn to be a shochet, flight and apartment paid for. He had no idea even who he'd be working for. No idea what he'd be doing. No idea what his salary was or where Milwaukee Wisconsin was exactly on the map. He just took it.

    As the flight came over the whitened-with-snow Milwaukee, he became excited. To learn new skills and still be in a city-like enviroment in a Jewish community. Who knew; maybe he'd meet a nice girl.

     His driver, a man of most likely forty, picked him up. "Ready for the two hour drive?"

Two HOUR drive?

In an Israeli accent he replied, "Well, yes. It's two hours to Green Bay."

Green Bay, the young man thought.It must be just the same sort of city. Someone told me there was a small community there. Great I'll have plenty.

On the way his driver was really nice, but one question his driver posted to him stuck in his mind;

"Why do you want such a sh**ty job in the middle of nowhere?" 

 .....

"Welcome to what is Green Bay!"

The young man looked around. 

There wasn't... anything

    They finally arrived to the real part of the city, had a treat visit the library, and set off to the plant. They drove past brick buildings and quaint houses. It all looked like a Hallmark movie....at least there was a Wallmart.

.....

Twelve pages

    The young man looked at the twelve page legal document of which each page he had to initial; part of which clearly stated that if he was ever G-d forbid hurt or died on the the job, it simply wasn't their problem. Why? because he worked for certain people, but really was paid by a client contracted to these other people, who contracted the certain people he worked for.

???

Well I'm stuck here anyway

.....

    "We're going to our sh*ty apartment now." his driver said. The young man was to meet his new manager. The key to the apartment was given to him. They walked up the stairs and entered his manager's apartment. in sat two Israelis, one smoking a cigarette. They were good humored fellows. He was introduced and given the next day's hours.

Then it was off to his own apartment

.....

    The second of the young man's new roommates (the other being the driver himself), also forty, let him in . To his left was a table with nothing but house plants on it next to the window. To right a small messy dining room table with random things cluttering it. beyond that a fish tank by the wall, two crates stacked on one another, a closet in complete dissaray, and other bits of clutter. "Well this is your bed." His new roommate pointed.

It was a couch

a couch

     "And here's my fish tank, and this is my worm farm"

a worm farm .

great

    He was lead through the kitchen where dirty dishes were in the sink for what must have been going on a year, and shown his roommates two rooms where bombs must have gone off.

 "So how far is the Wallmart?"

"Oh I'd say two miles."

 "The library?"

 "The same"

 "The Plant?"

 "About a mile."

 "Dry cleaning?"

Confusing instructions of unknown streets

"A grocery store?"

More confusing instructions

    "You see, Green Bay is big, but It's real spread out." The young man had noticed that on account of the amount of enormous patches filled with nothing but trees he had passed by. "You mean you don't drive?" his roommate asked." "No...I'm gonna step outside."

    The young man went out in a panic. Immediately the bitter cold and immense amount of snow made him realize his coat was no match for this weather. And this was supposed to be mild. He realized there was no tight Jewish community. That he had gone from easy to navigate NY, and stuck himself not in another city, but the biggest small town in the world where nothing was close, with no knowledge of the place, and hardly any money. The young man realized he didn't even know his own address. He looked around and thought,

what

have

I

done