THERE WERE A LOT MORE INTERESTING things that happened within the shop before Tonya clocked out.
For a start, she never got a handshake from Dr. La Luchi. She got no words to describe the old man's reaction when he sternly declined. A big no with a hand wave was all it took for her smile to melt a bit. "Let's reserve the handshake for our next meeting, child," he said with an apologetic smile. "Customary issues. You know. We don't do it in..." Then he shut up, leaving her puzzled and guessing which of the two hundred countries on the map doesn't give handshakes.
Next in her "Daily List of Peculiar Things" was the reappearance of the invisible hand inside their shop after Dr. La Luchi left. She had no clue as to when did it exactly zap through the door. She couldn't tell who among their
