“Do you know why you’re still doing dishes?” he asked. “Because you keep complaining about it.”
” I was angry and thought about quitting, but I scrubbed, rinsed and sanitized until after 10 that night. I asked Jeff when I could do something different.
"But, he promised, if I continued to leave a clean station and not complain, next week he would put me on the “make table,”
A few days later, when I reported for my after-school shift, I saw my name penciled not in the “dishes” box but in the “make table” box. I was ecstatic. Jeff had a special way of running his restaurant.
Pizza Hut became not only my escape from home but also, in many ways, an alternate home.
still had not mailed it the day before it was due. At work that day, I offhandedly mentioned to Jeff that an application was due the next day but that I hadn’t mailed it. He opened a drawer and took out an overnight envelope. He told me to stop what I was doing, leave work and send the application immediately. I protested about the expense of overnight postage, but he said he would cover it.
Jeff surprised me with an early graduation present: a trip to Boston. He paid for the hotel, the car and the plane tickets.
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