A Glass Half Short Story

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A Glass Half Full Dragging my feet along the ground as the tiresome faces of my new 4th hour turned and peered with judgment, when the teacher barked at me for being late. Sitting down the smell of old burnt food and the cleaning supplies lying around, but also the scent of fields or flowers that was her perfume filled my nose. At first, the class seemed as if a foreign place full of strange people who all seemed bored, and angry that they had to attend. A month into school and the teacher said she picked six people who would then pick who they wanted to be in their kitchen. Khloe got selected as one of the six, and she chose me. Thinking nothing of it got up, and went over to my new partner and we started to prepare to cook. As the…show more content…
I mostly kept my anger in, but I could feel the tightness in my face, my hands strangling the spatula, and sweat beading down my face. The grill was packed full with burgers, breasts, and ribs. Dan, the owner, started to yell, and the vain looked like it was trying to jump out of his head as hollered, "Cody, You better fucking hurry I don't want 12 minute times". Quickly turning around I shouted, "Dan, don't get on my ass cause if I walk out your done". The kitchen appeared as if a tornado had swept through. Steven, my manager, running the appetizers who was also 3 pages deep in orders along with me, and then Ortiz who could only cook wings and clean. Steven and I were already furious because Dan was on our asses even though we were two of the best cooks. Even with the more orders and more complicated meals we still only had ten minute time on our end, compared to Ortiz's time of seventeen minutes. There were so many dishes that we almost did not have any more baskets to serve the food in, and we had no one who could do the dishes. Once the bar rush finally slowed down I decided to face the mountainous tower that was the dishes, and then Steven came over and started talking to

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