What Goes Around Comes Around

A Long Weekend

I had Friday off but on Saturday I had to close. We were busy. Shoppers all around came to eat. They tipped well and I was in a good mood. Choke noticed. "I am happy with your change of heart! See,this is where you belong!" I smiled, it I missed days. Days were where the mucky mucks worked. They fingers were on the pulse of the going ones. The nights were the people who weren't as fast. They weren't as good as the day crew. Suzie and been there all day and she showed me what she made. I wanted to tell her to fuck off. Tawni cherry picked the tables. She was always by the podium and would tell the cute little hostess, "Hey, they want me" or "I have a spot for you in my section". She played it. I got the couples who really could not afford to eat there, were dirty, or both.

We slowed down but at ten fifty, ten minutes before close, I got four women who had been shopping all day. "Hey, we forgot to sleep, so deal," one of them told me. They were women I used to be. They had successful husbands who worked hard and they spent their money harder. I was a shell of that woman.   I wanted to be that woman again and the anger in me seethed.   I wanted to call them bitches, but at one time, I was one of those rude  bitches.  I heard Epsie tell me, "What you do will come back to you."   Tired.  I went home.  I had to work 11-2 and 5-8 the next day.  To be honest, I missed Sundays at my parents house.    I missed sneaking off with Gar.  Gar had a good fall.  Pumpkin patch with Emmy and the kids,  big football game with the frat brothers.   I didn't have that.  I had to break it to Lauren and Sydney that there was no more ballet.   They understood but it hurt.  Those girls where their friends.  I did go every afternoon to pick them up though.... By then eBay became a business.  

    Suzie was not feeling well.  She had a headache and I secretly wished it was a brain tumor so I could get back on days,.... I should show Chloe that was where I belonged.    Servers pretended to "care" when there was something they wanted or didn't want, like closing.  I hated closing.  I hated working the weekends..l. So, I stayed all day and worked my shift for Suzie.   She just had a migraine.  Still stuck on nights.  I did make good money, but I was very tired.   I had a baby on the way, and that would cause a myriad of problems.  It also caused waves of "who's gonna close?  Who's gonna close?  Who's gonna  close?"   I was due in March.   I was due in late March.  

   Financially, eBay was going well.  However, I was running out of things to sell.   I was not going to be able to save my home.  Where were we going to go?  I loved our neighbors.  They weee our friends.   We had garage parties and fall parties.   I would never have them again....    I was never going to have this life again....