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Tyranny, equity and blueberry pastry

Posted 1/10/25

It could have cost my waiter his job. 

But he kept his eye on the prize of his means of subsistence and held his tongue during management's reprimand for his forgetting to charge me an extra couple of bucks for a two-inch blueberry pastry square that was not included among the dinner specials. As a regular customer, I spend more money at that diner than I used to pay for my mortgage.

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