A Drink Menu and a Stranger

here is the chapter as a whole with some editing lets see how it works:“I do not know how

you put up with this shit,” my friend Anna said as I finished setting up our holiday display and coming

back into reality. The day had mostly been a mushy blur the moment I pulled into the parking

lot, like usual. Still, the display was something my manager

had decided I would do after informing me I would be cross-training different departments. Something about

not wasting my potential. The rumor was that they were grooming me for the assistant general manager’s

position after our last one quit. “Maybe getting the AGM position will get your parents

off your back,” Anna said not so kindly, reminding me that my parents all but