It was very late the following Sunday evening when Brian finally got home, after missing his normal bus. When will people learn the sign saying we close at nine does not mean come through the door at nine and then spend half an hour with your friends drinking coffee? If he’d been the manager, he would have politely asked them to leave. But he wasn’t, so he had to do the normal clean-up and then twiddle his thumbs while he waited for the customers to get their butts out of the shop. Since it was just him and the manager, he had no choice. Rules said no employee was left alone in there after dark.
“Maybe it’s time to think about finding a new job,” he grumbled as he stood under the hot water in the shower, trying to unwind. The problem, and he knew it, was he had no skills other than waitin
