[Throwback Thursday with sporadic contributor Zach Lee, enjoy! -yfbb]
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I like to ask people working in customer service jobs how they’re doing before I ask them for whatever the hell it is I want. It rarely happened to me when I was waiting tables or scanning barcodes, so paying it forward whenever I get the chance feels nice. That is except for tonight on my way through the security gauntlet at the entrance to the Moda Center, when in response to my query the wallet-phone-keys basket lady said,
“Could be better.”
Besides being socially questionable, that is what is known colloquially as an “omen”.