I’d
been working for more than nine hours and wondering who was going to
relieve me for the overnight shift. That wasn’t so bad, except that
for the last half hour I’d been the only one in the shop, employee
OR customer, which was terribly boring. The lack of business was
probably because we were new, or at least the novelty of the product.
I
looked down in the mixing vat. Stout, food-grade steel rods twisted
around in an empty tub about the size of a large kitchen sink. We
were a “build
Customer Satisfaction
By: marloweny
Favorited: 8 years ago
The subway car shook as it rumbled down the track,
clack-CLACK-CLACK,
CLACK-clack-CLACK,
clack-clack-CLACK,
with all the promise and none of the delivery of a rhythm. We all
shook with the car, swaying in time, like tide-pool anemones tossed
by the same waves. For a Sunday afternoon the car was relatively
crowded, but there was a lot going on downtown that day. It wasn't as
crowded as a weekday morning, though; we all had room to breathe,
even if everyone couldn't sit. Alan leaned against the po
Saybel's Surprise
By: 4ofSwords
Favorited: 8 years ago
