Jeff Benson saw an add in the his weekly town paper that sounded a little to good to be true.
WANTED VOLUNTEERS:
The Norton Research Foundation
is offering to fund an experi-
ment for Oral Products Corp.
Volunteers paid for their part-
icipation. Duration of testing
for week, month, one year. call
or write: 616-555-1213 or
send Resume to: N.R.F. at
2100 Penn Ave. Washington, DC.
01022
Jeff had to try this progam out, he could use extra money and being away from governing parents the time seemed right.
As he mailed his Resume the next day at the local post office the postal worker looked at the address and commented, "Quite a few sent out letters to this place last few days, good luck!"
Jeff felt a little sorry he got his hopes so high only to hear a number of people did the same as him. As he walked back to the apartment he bumped into Alice Roiter a oldtime friend from high school days.
"Hi Jeff, haven't seen you for some time now, still living at home?" she asked.
A small grin as he was worried about the resume but being proper he answered, "No I'm in an apartment over off Brisket Lane. I'm still in college, trying to get the master's degree, you know! How about you, hear you went to work right out of high school?"
A big smile on her face as she said with pride, "Yup, went to work on a referal with Norton Research. My Daddy knew a man there and he refered my name to personel director. Now I work in the main office as a C.S.R. screening applications. The company won a bid for testing several drugs for the French government. Well nice to see you again, and good luck!" said Alice as she stepped into her new convertable.
Jeff turned on a dime and asked Alice a quick question, "Hey I sent in a resume for being a paid volunteer at N.R.F. could you help me get in?"
Alice looked at him as her face seemed filled with terror. "Ah, NO! I don't think anybody with your brains should get mixed up the this kind of testing, really! replied Alice.
"Well what's so bad about being paid for some little test?" asked Jeff still beaming at his ole' friend.
Alice turned off the car and slid over to the passenger side seat, "Look Jeff the testing they plan is so secret the U.S. government doesn't know about it yet. I'm not suppose to tell, but they are testing for Gene splicing, and D.N.A. mutation. Most of the testing is done on five or six subjects who when it's over and done will be lucky if a side show will hire them, if they don't end up living in a zoo! Stay away, if they call on your resume just tell them you got hired elsewhere, don't take the money, really Jeff, don't!" Then she started the car and with a wave drove off.
Jeff just stood there watching as he thought to himself, "She's jealous I'm gon'a have a master's degree in another year! I'll show her what a brain can do, sideshows, or zoo, you got to be kidding!"