Negative One

The members of Metzgerhund have been suffering through a few negative experiences the last couple of days.

A promotions specialist stands them up. Some of the local teens are bashing their music. The Metzgerhund website goes offline, and the hosting company doesn’t seem to care. The fuse box in their practice shed blows up, and the maintenance manager, Larry, won't fix it.

But wait! There’s more! The employees of an out-of-state delicatessen make their annual visit to Sentry Ridge to pit their store softball team against the park’s team. Billy is tasked with putting the park team together, but finds out none of his co-workers want to play against this team.

Metzgerhund’s biggest challenge to their peace and sanity comes in the form of three ‘entitled’ twenty-somethings who go out of their way to treat the band with as much disrespect as they could muster. And, because the park manager’s insistence on flawless customer service, the five band mates had to hold their tongue while dealing with all their requests and verbal abuse.

Amongst all the uneasiness this situation causes within the band, Calvin is especially unhappy because he won’t be able to go to a local car club show

In all of this negativity, one park guest stepped forward to help out the band. This person had a particular interest in ensuring Calvin got to the car show after all.

Billy finally discovered a way to cancel out all the problems he and his band mates have been experiencing. It was simple math: give some negativity right back at those causing the problems. One by one, their problems went away. They put the entitled girls in their place. Billy even came up with a way to compete against the deli softball team by combatting their advantage.

Unfortunately, Billy realized way too late that he struck back against the park guest who helped the band. And, in Billy’s mind, this guest was someone who was more and more resembling the type of person you just don't cross.