The unbearable kindness of warehouse beef stew.
This was in the truck bay of The Company’s fulfillment warehouse in Shakopee, Minnesota. I had been working there for a few weeks. The boxes were packed to the ceiling of the trailer and the trailer was ten feet high. The man was unloading, twisting back to throw each box onto the conveyor belt behind him. Then he pulled the wrong box and, looking up, realized.Late afternoon, I was home from my double shift.
Sometimes, when I thought she had already turned in for the night, I’d see her rush from the darkened living room into the freezing driveway to wave goodbye. Sometimes I wonder what would’ve happened if my step-mom hadn’t texted me the image of the billboard she’d driven by. “Now Hiring.” A man with a crew cut in a gray polo smiled in studio light.
The empty amusement park had a giant parking lot and the group of us were huddled at the far edge, waiting for the bus to the warehouse. It started to snow. It was a quarter till 4 a.m. by then. The snow came down fast and wet, falling through the metal coaster’s tracks and the Drop Tower’s latticed spires. My sister had talked all summer about this amusement park.Now flakes big as house moths settled on the roof of the carousel, collected in the Ferris wheel’s gondolas.
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