I hit the sidewalk on my hands and knees.The concrete tore the skin off both palms. My torn thrift store jacket split at the shoulder. Somewhere behind me, the glass door of my own restaurant swung shut on its hinges, and I heard my manager laugh.“And stay out,” Kyle said through the glass.A woman walking her dog crossed to the other side of the street. A man in a suit stepped over my leg without slowing down. Nobody asked if I was okay.I knelt there on the sidewalk, bleeding a little, breathing hard, and I didn’t feel the pain at all. Because of what I’d seen in the half second before Kyle shoved me through that door.I’d seen it plain as day. Right there at the host stand. And I knew, kneeling on that sidewalk, that I wasn’t going to be firing anybody that afternoon.READ MORE BELOW..
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