Hurt Others by Sam Pink

Author:Sam Pink
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Lazy Fascist Press
Published: 2012-02-23T23:00:00+00:00

After work I went across the street to a Chinese take-out restaurant.

It was called ‘The Chinese Connection.’

Inside it smelled like burnt oil.

A Chinese man with mild gigantism worked the counter.

“What I get you,” he said, combing his bangs to the side with his fingers.

I ordered fried rice.

He raised both his hands and said, “No rice any kind anymore.”

I couldn’t tell if he was joking.

Then I realized the restaurant was going to close soon.

I ordered something else.

“Ok, wait little bit,” he said, and went back to the kitchen.

I stood at the counter and noticed a small fountain by the wall, where water dripped down from a top rung onto a lower one, then onto another lower one and then somehow back up to the top, recycling.

Looking at it felt really nice.

The employee came back and added up the price on the register. “Nine dollar. Be ready ten minute.”

I paid.

I said, “Where did you get this fountain, it’s nice.”

My elbows were on the counter and I was on my toes, lifting myself up and down.

Without looking up, he nodded towards across the street at the store where I just started working, and said, “Over there, twelve dollar.”

I said, “Oh, nice.”

I thought about telling him how I work there, but then it didn’t seem to be important.

It went from immediately seeming important, to definitely not.

He walked back into the kitchen area.

The fountain kept going.

I watched, waiting for my order.

It was so nice to watch and hear the fountain.

A very tiny sound.

I folded my arms on the counter and put my head down and started to laugh.

I thought—Nobody knows I’m here except me and the guy who took my order.

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