HORST CAN’T FIND the ice-cream flavor he really needs today and is showing signs of gathering impatience, alarming in one usually so stolid.
“You’re my last fare of the day.” In a tone so strange now that Maxine’s warning lights begin to blink. She glances at the time on the backseat video display. It is far from the end of any known shift.
“I’ve been that rough on you?” Hopefully playful.
“I have to begin the process. I keep putt…
“If there’s a sensibility you really want to talk about, and not just exhibit it yourself, you need ‘a deep sympathy modified by contempt.’”
“I get the contempt part, but remind me about the sympathy?”
“Their idealism,” maybe a little reluctantly, “their youth . . . Maxi, I haven’t seen anyth…
[...] Axel’s whistle-blowers tend to be disgruntled employees, he and Maxine in fact met at a Disgruntled Employee Workshop led by Professor Lavoof, generally acknowledged godfather of Disgruntlement Theory and developer of the influential Disgruntled Employee Simulation Program for Audit Informati…
Truculent busboys splashed uneaten soup on them as they sped past
