How We Live Now by Bill Hayes

Author:Bill Hayes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

NY, NY, NY—Times Square

September 1, 2017

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Liquor stores—unquestionably “essential”—are still open around here. Here’s how it currently works at the place in my neighborhood: Only five customers in the store at a time; social distancing required; and so forth. They deliver, too, but I wanted to go in and see how the men of Manley’s Wine & Spirits were doing the other day. It was empty.

Begloved, I placed my bottle of wine on the counter and Omar, who knows me all too well, scanned it with a handheld scanner. I swiped my card in the machine. When it came to signing my name with the little wand, Omar said, “I think I know you well enough to sign for you—is that okay?”

“I’m sure you do, go for it.”

With a few quick strokes, he did, then showed me his forgery: in place of my name, he’d drawn two little dots for eyes and a squiggly smile line underneath, like a child’s drawing of a face.

“That’s how you sign it, right?” Omar said.

“That is exactly how. Thank you, my friend, and take care.”

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