On this Calling America, the people who get our goat, the people we trust -- at first -- the characters we tell stories about ... our unforgettables: a dad who is "all things fried" and a guy looking for a job. T

he Ex-Con
By Paula Parson
Read by Paula Parson

Fried
By Glennis Redmond
Read by Sarah Moisan-Thomas

Music: Box Base by Dan Otero


    He needed a job, he said.  We had decided that tile floors were more practical
in our south Texas home than our ugly brown carpet.  So my husband asked if he
knew how to lay tile.  Yes, he'd laid tile.  
  -- The Ex-Con By Paula Parson