It's Tradition

[donutsweeper]

Title: It's Tradition
Pairing/Warning/Rating: None, set pre-series, rated G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Gwen learns a lesson about the things we do in the name of tradition
Author's Note: Unfortunately, this is based on real life, as I spent several hours doing exactly the same thing today.  Written for the  tw100 challenge:  Life Before Torchwood

“Gwen Cooper?  Thanks for agreeing to be the Police Liaison Officer for tonight.  Here’s your ticket box.  You’ll man that table right there, okay?”

“I’m sorry, but it was my understanding that this was billed as a free concert?”

“Oh yes, absolutely free, isn’t that wonderful?”

“Then what tickets will I be taking?”

“Since it’s free, we didn’t print up any tickets.”

“Then... what am I doing?”

“You're the Police Liaison Officer.  The Police Liaison Officer always takes tickets.  It’s tradition.”

“So, I’m to sit at that table with this box and take nonexistent tickets?”

“Yes.”

“I can do that.”

Comments

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha. I'm glad you turned it into a *pre* Torchwood fic though. Scarily, I can see the police (like the NHS) still possibly having some of those... um... 'policies' still in place.

Best way to turn around a thing that would make you grumpy though. Maybe you should ask for a policy review early - when's the 10 years up?

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

The job assignments will be reviewed in 2010, although I don't know if it's done before or after the annual meeting of that year. But either way, there's at least one more year of nonexistent ticket taking