Dishwasher by Pete Jordan

Author:Pete Jordan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIOGRAPHY   AUTOBIOGRAPHY/General
Publisher: HarperCollins

A few days after my arrival, while ambling along Banks Street, I saw a flyer tacked to a tree:

NOW HIRING:

Food Service Personnel

* Daily Work

* Daily Pay

Daily dishing for daily cash? No waiting weeks while my paycheck was held hostage against me quitting? Ideal! But it sounded eerily similar to Terry’s hiring hall, where I’d tried without success to be the on-call troubleshooting dishman.

The next morning, I set out for the flyer’s Canal Street address. But first I had to find a pecan pie. Not a whole pie, mind you, just one of those tart-sized ones to put me in the right mood for working. Yet, despite its being the height of pecan season, after a thorough search of a dozen corner stores, I was still pieless. Then a woman passed me on the street and asked, “Would you like to buy a pie?”

I took a few steps before I realized what she’d said. She was holding a box full of homemade, tart-sized pecan pies! I saw this as such a good omen about my new job that I spent my last five bucks on three pies.

The pie search set me back timewise; I didn’t reach the hiring hall until midafternoon. I was glad to see it wasn’t Terry’s company but was surprised to find the place already closed for the day.

I sat on the curb and ate my pies. Not wanting to make the same mistake I’d made at Terry’s, I vowed to return early the next morning.

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