9. Wanderlust
******** arrived at Yu Chun at 10 a.m., when he knew there would be fewer customers there. He was prepared to order to appease the boss, but he was not there to eat.
When the Welcome Waitress came to Sam’s table with a free pot of chrysanthemum tea, he told her in a whisper, ‘I’m working on a project for school where I need to ask restaurant waitstaff about their lives. Can I interview you?’ The boss was not there; she had not yet arrived. But Sam wanted to be certain that his machinations would not get the Welcome Waitress and her colleagues fired in the name of college credits he would likely never receive, either because Professor Wang was manifestly cruel or because his home university’s bureaucracy was tedious and frequently beyond logic. Of course, Sam would have to t
