I once worked at an insurance company where the owner smoked six cigars a day, ten feet from my desk. By afternoon the smoke was in my clothes, my hair, the paperwork. I went home smelling like his day and wondering what had happened to mine. Unhappy would have been fine. I was stuck. I … Continue reading The Stories We Won’t Sit Through
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The Shoestring
The truck died on the side of the road and nobody was coming out. I fixed the throttle linkage with the shoestring out of my own boot, and two weeks later my manager wanted to talk to me about proper notice.
