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...block and around the corner, there was asmaller sign at a buffet. Walking down the darkstairway, I was greeted by a hearty 30-year-oldwith spiky hair and a peach sweatshirt. He wouldhave to check with his brother first; it would be8 to 4, cashier work. He was so friendly, and thebrotherly business atmosphere was so appealing,that I felt bad that I wouldn't be calling him onMonday--though walking daily into a basement couldget depressing...
...fussy, though. At least the airport has rest rooms. Many gas stations, especially self-service, cashier-booth pumpers, no longer do. Visitors who wait till they're in the city's elegant subway system are also reduced to toe-tapping: "There are no public rest rooms, and there haven't been as long as I've been here," an employee declares indignantly, when a patron begins to beg. A Metro spokesman avers that rest rooms would be an invitation to "crime, vandalism and all kinds of other things you wouldn't want to discuss in mixed company...
...Cardo, a rebuilt Roman boulevard in the Old City, ten of the 18 shops have closed; others have had to slash prices to attract customers. "My sales are off 80% because I sell mainly to Americans," says Eli Heller, manager of a leather- apparel store. Grumbles Ruth Elkayam, a cashier at Tayelet restaurant: "It doesn't pay to open up in the morning. Our business is off by 90%, and instead of 40 workers we have 17." At the new Hyatt Regency, the management closed several floors and dispatched the general manager to the U.S. to drum up business...
Life thus consists of a procession of countless lines, this one for meat, that one for vegetables, a third for milk. Each of those queues becomes two or more lines, as the consumer moves from the selection counter to the cashier to the pickup point. Because of food shortages, accumulating frozen and canned goods is virtually impossible, so shopping becomes a daily necessity. Women must then make their way home, toting unwieldy shopping bundles onto crowded buses and along often unpaved footpaths, to prepare meals for the family. Housecleaning, like cooking, is done largely without the help of modern appliances...
...armored personnel carriers. The president of the banana republic then gives the dollar as part of a kickback to the local drug king, who gives it to help pay a drug courier, who spends it to buy a Coke when it gets to the United States. But the cashier drops it on the street and you find it." By now we were back in my room...