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• The music and the room temperature are controlled by corporate. Corporate plays a lot of pop covers of Disney princess songs I’ve never heard before. I now have a dance routine to the K-Pop sounding version of Let it Go.
• Our sign flickered fast and red and demonically for a week and the repairman said he couldn’t find anything wrong with it.
• People did drug deals in, like, broad daylight in the middle of the parking lot multiple times a week.
• It’s open 24/7. We had a backup generator none of us knew about until there was a massive storm one night and we looked out to see a tree knocked over and our lights the only thing on for miles. You could weather the apocalypse with no idea the apocalypse was even happening. 
• Regular customers included:
• A man convinced the chemtrails are real who gave me six separate pieces of literature on the subject
• A little person named Kevin who told me “sometimes I call myself a dwarf when I’m feeling whimsical”
• An actual group of Neo-Nazis
• An actual Earth, Wind, and Fire cover band (they played for us)
• Twins who came in separately on the same day and I thought they were one woman changing outfits rapidly for the longest time
• A Scottish landscaper who told us we “couldn’t prove he doesn’t know Simon Pegg”
• I have more these are just off the top of my head

• two line cooks got into a really heated argument about whether Vin Diesel is bisexual or not
• I asked an elderly man if he wanted to use the AARP discount and he said “No, I’m not a socialist”.

The Bus Driver is a Serbian immigrant who has only been in the country 12 years. The Baby was a recent refugee from Burma who wandered outside the family’s apartment after pushing a door open while no one was watching, in below freezing temperatures. The Mother of the baby is a Rohingya refugee dealing with PTSD mental health issues from surviving the massacre in Burma and is brand new to the country. She was hospitalized after breaking down after her baby was saved but has been released now. The Woman in the nurse’s uniform who gave up her coat to keep the child warm is the daughter of parents from Ghana.

‘Murica, “We’re all in it together.”