Wonder When You’ll Miss Me
“I hung up the phone and leapt around the room whooping and shouting. Job! Job! Job! I didn’t care how hard it would be as long as I could make some money, stash it away, and go somewhere else, somewhere it was possible to start over. The fat girl watched me from the couch, a pint of mint ice cream in her lap. She didn’t say anything, just shook her head and licked the back of her spoon.
I arrived at the restaurant wearing the white oxford shirt and black pants I’d had on when I applied. Emily i...ntroduced herself as the night manager and then presented me to Chuck, a tall stringy guy with spiky red hair and tattoos that wound up his arms, disappearing under his rolled-up sleeves and reappearing at the edge of his neck. He didn’t look directly at me but handed me an apron and showed me how to tie it, then pointed things out to me—bus buckets, bar mops, lowboys—I thought that even the lingo was exciting.
I had a dull flicker I couldn’t place. I recognized him as the guy who’d been wiping glasses when I came in to apply, but I also had the sense that I knew him from somewhere.MoreLess
I arrived at the restaurant wearing the white oxford shirt and black pants I’d had on when I applied. Emily i...ntroduced herself as the night manager and then presented me to Chuck, a tall stringy guy with spiky red hair and tattoos that wound up his arms, disappearing under his rolled-up sleeves and reappearing at the edge of his neck. He didn’t look directly at me but handed me an apron and showed me how to tie it, then pointed things out to me—bus buckets, bar mops, lowboys—I thought that even the lingo was exciting.
I had a dull flicker I couldn’t place. I recognized him as the guy who’d been wiping glasses when I came in to apply, but I also had the sense that I knew him from somewhere.MoreLess
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