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The next morning, Mayor Logan Meyer's secretary answered the phone like any normal morning.

"Mr. Mayor!" she said. "There's some strange man on the phone asking for you!"

"How many times do I have to tell you to wait to answer the phone until I say so?" the mayor asked.

"I'm sorry I'm trying to do my job the way normal people do it!" the secretary said, half-yelling.

The mayor picked up the phone in his office. "Mayor Logan Meyer speaking. How may I help you?" he asked, pretending like he didn't have a sneaking suspicion of who was calling.

The man on the other end answered, "Quit playing games, Mr. Mayor. Quit letting your greed get in the way of the motel demolition." He then hung up.