Afternoons at the Truck Stop Café were easy, too easy in the months since Joe left. So Doris didn"t mind when Jimmy called her into the kitchen one August morning to let her know he"d fired that useless girl from Grapeland and would need Doris to pull doubles “for a few days” until he found a replacement. Two days into the extra assignments, she told him not to bother. Even if most afternoons she was serving an empty dining room, it provided her with enough excuse to avoid going back home to the confines of those four rooms.
Doris appreciated the long afternoons of side work and filling coffee cups. Plus, the extra money could go towards the ten thousand dollars" worth of repairs Vítor Barros said it would take if she wanted to safely reoccupy the second floor of her house. Between the ex
