“Okay, so let’s put our noggins together and come up with a plan.”Jamie sat back down and took a long sip of coffee.“Let’s all think about it and sit down again later in the week.”
“Alright, ya’ll,” Flo said, pulling on her shoes before standing.“We still have dinner to get through, although I’m thinking it’ll be a slow night.Never is busy on a Tuesday.”
“And I have to go meet with Glenn Brown.”
Chapter Seven
Jamie gave them allhomework.He wanted ideas, and they’d come back in two days’ time and have a meeting after the lunch service was over.He put a sign on the door the very next day, saying that they would be closed for dinner service on Thursday night.
“Oh, Mike isn’t going to like that one little bit,” Hazel said.“He’ll be expecting his salad, pork chops, green beans, mashed potatoes with gravy, and apple pie.”
Jamie looked at Hazel.“Who’s Mike?”
“He comes in nearly every night and gets the special of the day,” Flo answered.“You can set your watch by that man.”
“Well, you just tell him he’ll have to go somewhere else that night.”Jamie scoffed.
“Um...Mike isn’t one to be told to go somewhere else,” Walter added.
“Oh?What makes him so special?”Jamie asked.
“First off, he’s a Sergeant Major.He runs the entire engineering department on base,” Walter explained.
“And he usually gets what he wants, too,” Flo added.
“Now, ya’ll are making him sound like he’s as mean as a rattlesnake,” Hazel said.He’s actually a very nice man, who just happens to be on the quiet side, is all.“I think he just likes things...a certain way.”
Flo harrumphed.“He’s also built like a brick shithouse!He’s huge.I don’t know of anyone who’d go up against that man.”
“How about a compromise?”Dexter said.“We tell him that we’re going to be closing for a staff meeting, but we’ll make him dinner, and only him.”
“Yeah,” Walter said, shrugging slightly.“It’s nothing to fix him one dinner.We’ll have everything set from lunch, just need two pork chops ready.”
“Okay.Won’t bother me none,” Jamie said.“It’s a date then.We’re going to take that night off and see what ideas we can come up with, and I’ll cook us dinner.”
“I’ll sure look forward to that,” Dexter said as he rubbed his hands together.
