The Zippy Fix by Graham Salisbury

Author:Graham Salisbury [Salisbury, Graham]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-375-89394-0
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2009-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

Hunger drove starving swimmers up from the beach like carpenter ants. In minutes we had our hands full. Uncle Scoop cooked up hamburgers, hot dogs, and plate lunches. Willy and I packed one shave ice after another—red, yellow, green, orange, blue, purple, and three-color rainbows.

An hour later, the crowd started to thin out.

“Whew.” Uncle Scoop took off his cap and dabbed his sweating forehead with a paper napkin. “Can you two watch the truck for a minute? I need go bat’troom.”

“We can do it, Uncle Scoop.”

“Sure,” Willy added.

Uncle Scoop took his apron off and headed over to the pavilion, where the bathrooms were. For a moment I imagined that Willy was my partner, and the Lucky Lunch was our business. I liked it.

Two boys walked up and ordered shave ice, one yellow and one red. It took us less than a minute to make them. We were pro salesmen now.

“That will be two dollars,” I said, as if I’d been in the shave ice business all my life. I took their five-dollar bill and gave them three dollars back. “Thank you. Come again.”

The boys raised their chins like, Yeah-sure.

“I never made change before,” I said, more to myself than to Willy. It was so easy to make money with a lunch truck. Maybe when I grow up I might have one, too.

A cackling laugh snapped me out of my daydream.

“Bwahahahaha…” Snort-snort. “Bwaaahaha! Look what Uncle Scoop wen’ drag up! Bwaha-haha…” Snort!

“Aw, man,” I mumbled.

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