Heads in Beds by Jacob Tomsky

Author:Jacob Tomsky [Tomsky, Jacob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

How you take your coffee, Tommy?” Trey the bellman asked me. “Light and sweet?”

“Light and sweet”: a wonderful New Yorkism for coffee with lotta milk, lotta sugar. Another one of my favorites from New York is the term “brick,” as it applies to weather. Basically, it means extremely cold. In context: “Fuck me, it’s goddamn brick outside.”

“You making a coffee run?” I asked, reaching for my wallet.

“It’s on me. All the boys know you’re doing a good job here. Don’t think we haven’t noticed. Listen … that new girl, with the ass, you think you can train her? You know, about calling, ‘Front’? Even teach her the ‘this is my good friend Trey’ line. She’s still asking guests if they need helpm { margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:0em; font-size:.9em; line-height:1.4em; } div.toc_it would , and it’s cutting into our money.”

“Sure, Trey, no problem. I’ll handle it.”

“You’re a good kid.”

“Your mother on all fours.”

“Damn, Tommy. I’m getting you a doughnut, too.”

I just got a free doughnut for verbally putting someone’s mother into a doggy-style position. Well on my way from clown status to New York City status. In retrospect, it felt like catching a prison sentence and carving out your place in the cell block. I kept my head down, ate alone in the cafeteria for a while, took a huge amount of shit, but stood up for myself when it counted. After a few months, when I walked into the prison yard, it was daps all around, and my fellow inmates were now joking with me, including me in the excluding of others.

People had settled in here; they were lifers. Trey the bellman had met his wife in housekeeping. It was a Bellevue wedding of a Bellevue couple attended by Bellevue employees. Now they had three kids, and everyone watched them grow up. It felt good to be accepted, slowly and by degrees, into their lives.

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