Don't Let Me Die In A Motel 6 or One Woman's Struggle Through The Great Recession by Wolf Amy

Author:Wolf, Amy [Wolf, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-11-30T08:00:00+00:00

ME

(Spanish rusty from twenty years of disuse)

Qué?

CASHIER

(on bulky cellphone)

Carlos, tenemos un problema con esta gringa --

tiene un cheque de doce mil dollares. Qué hacemos?

(she listens to a lengthy response – TO ME)

OK Missy, we release $500 now, rest over two weeks.

SMASH CUT TO:

ME

But this is from the United States Treasury!

The CASHIER looks puzzled.

CASHIER

Tenemos loans – 60% interest.

ME

(TO CAMERA)

And they call us usurers?

This then was my new life: Macys had been exchanged for the Camarillo Outlet Mall; Target for 99 Cents; Von’s for Food 4 Less; the B of A for Joker. I spent most of my time far north of the Boulevard (Ventura, for you nonpros). Forgotten were four generations of Americans who had first arrived in 1900, hoping for a better, Czar-free life. Forgotten was their struggle to raise themselves from deli counters to those who got degrees and headed companies. I think that my Great-Grandma Bubbe, in her thick glasses and thicker shoes, raising five children in Brooklyn while stirring a giant pot, aced me on the stability scale. My great-grandfather was a cantor, and not subject to a Singing Bubble.

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