The Divorce Express (2007)

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Genres: Fiction
B&B—Bread and Butter.
Everyone goes through the line, buying one slice of bread and two pats of butter.
The bread gets buttered, with more butter around the edges.
A few minutes before the bell is to ring, Jill goes up to the cafeteria teachers, who are all standing in one place, probably discussing how they got stuck with such a lousy assignment.
Jill asks for a bathroom pass.
That’s the signal.
Everyone quietly sticks the bread to the underside of the table top, butter side up.
The teachers tell Jill to wait until the bell rings, since the period’s almost over. They always say that to kids. They think that kidneys can tell time.
The bell rings.
Everyone rushes out of the place. I don’t think the cafeteria’s ever been emptied out so quickly.
Later we get the report from the kids who have lunch next.
The bread falls down—piece by piece.
Cafeteria workers freak out.
The janitors rush around cleaning it up while kids are trying to get lunch and be seated.
No bread and butter is served f
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