βI want to speak to a manager,β the middle-aged woman said in her stern I-used-to-be-a-soccer-mom-ten-years-ago voice, looking down at me over the top of her Gucci reading glasses.
A wicked grin split across my face and the gates of Hell opened up behind me, releasing a gust of hot wind that whipped my apron around my body and forced the woman to shield her face. Demons came forth, dancing around in flames with songs of, βShe wants to speak to a manager. Did you hear that? She wants to speak to a manager!β before erupting into earsplitting shrieks of laughter, none louder than my own cackling.
I took in the womanβs look of utter horror before my eyes rolled back into my head and I growled,
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King Jr.