"They were just old steaks, discards. You know, the steakhouse can only keep meat for so long, and then they have to throw it away...but the meat's still good enough to take home and use, if you're not too picky about that sort of thing. Billy had been lifting discards for years, ever since he'd started there. Hell, everybody who's ever worked at Wild West has sneaked out some expired T-bones at some time or another. With money as tight as it was, that meat was extra-important to Billy.
"Wouldn't you know it. After all those years of stealing discards, just when he needed them the most, when he needed his job the most, Billy got nabbed. Martin caught him tossing a bag of sirloins in his car, and the son of a b***h fired Billy on the spot.
"Billy was devastated. He just couldn't be
