He silenced the alarm on his phone and sat up exhausted. He found the energy drink in his coat pocket, drank it, and then washed his face in the kitchen sink and made a pot of coffee. He turned on the TV and waited for Dale, but again the day man arrived thirty minutes late. Freddie ran out to the driveway and shouted at him as he parked his car in the drive. Dale half-heartedly apologized and went inside, and Freddie got in the Comet to find the battery dead. The car wouldn’t start, and he had to go back in and ask Dale for a jump. He drove home as fast as he could. He took his Logan Paint Store uniform and went into the bathroom. He set the clothes near the box heater, shaved, put on his uniform, and left. When he parked in front of Heaven’s Door Donuts, Mora waved both arms back and forth from inside. He flashed his lights twice and she took the two boxes from the counter and came out to the parking lot where Freddie rolled down the window. “You’re late again,” she yelled.
