SISSYFICATION: 30 BOOKS MEGA BUNDLE by Nikki Crescent

Author:Nikki Crescent
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2017-07-19T03:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER II

I’d brought enough change for the bus ride home, but it must have fallen out of my pocket at some point, because when I got to the bus stop, all I could find in my pocket was my resume and the hundred-dollar bill the farmer had given me. “Shit,” I said as the bus pulled up next to me. The door opened and the driver looked at me. “I lost my change. Can I still get a ride?” I asked.

He shook his head, as if I was the biggest disappointment he’d ever seen, and then he closed the door in my face and drove away. I was on my own—looking at another hour of biking through the city to get home.

I was already low on energy, and the sun had only gotten hotter since I’d left the ranch. I didn’t even make it halfway home when I nearly collapsed from the heat. I walked my bike off the street and looked around for somewhere to buy a cold drink. Next to me was a small convenience store. I went in and grabbed a bottle of water. I went to hand the owner my hundred dollar bill, and then he pointed to the ‘We do not accept hundred dollar bills’ sign. I had nothing else, so I went back out into the street, empty-handed, feeling somehow even more miserable.

I looked around for another store that might be able to make change out of a hundred. Most of the shops around me were closed down, either for the summer of indefinitely, boarded up, victims of the ruthless recession. Just down the street there was a glowing open sign: a wig store. With no other options, I walked inside.

The place was air-conditioned and, as luck would have it, there was a vending machine next to the checkout. “Can I help you?” the woman behind the counter asked.

“I’m dying of thirst. Can you make change out of this hundred so I can use the vending machine?” I asked.

She laughed and then reached under the counter, pulling up an unopened water bottle. “Here,” she said, tossing it to me. I couldn’t drink the water fast enough, even spilling some of it down my face and chest. This got another laugh out of the woman. “I take it you aren’t interested in buying a wig?” she said.

“Sorry, I don’t even think I could afford one if for some reason I needed one.”

“Well, that may have been true a year ago, but we’re going out of business, and we’re trying to get rid of our inventory. We’re practically giving the things away for free.”

I looked around. They had a lot of wigs—just about every hair style, colour, and length you could imagine. “If you know what you want to be for Halloween in a few months, it might be worth investing now. We used to sell high quality wigs for almost a thousand bucks. Now they’re on sale for forty. This economy is a real shame.”

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