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My plan to elevate Manny's self esteem worked brilliantly. Manny worked the grill flawlessly. He sang and danced as he sprinkled spices onto the meat and flipped it high into the air. Over the next few days, word traveled around town about the entertaining new griller at the diner. He became a bit of a local celebrity, and he loved the attention.
The only problem with my brilliant plan was that I talked myself right out of a job. The only opening at the restaurant was the dishwashing post that Manny had just vacated. It's not that I was too proud to be a dishwasher, but if there was one chore on earth that I hated more than any other, it was washing dishes. Besides, it was hell on my hands and rubber gloves were too girly for me to be taken seriously.
I despised my new post, but I tr
