Chapter 5

Whodathunkit?

Well, now what?” said a young member of the dish room team, with a tone of anxiety in her voice. “George comes back in two days and you know what he said. There’ll be hell to pay.” Together, now routinely over coffee in the cafeteria, we met to regroup. Sal and Mr. Fuentes spoke first about looking again at the gearing problem. Jodell engaged and encouraged everyone. And then the discussions were halted with two words from the most unlikely source.

“Baking soda,” Daisy said, shocking everyone at the table. “My grandmother used to say that baking soda would take the paint off a Chevrolet. I tried and sure enough I got a whupping from my grandfather to show for it.” We all, of course, laughed a good deal at Daisy’s “misfortune.” ...

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