Word: counterman
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...with the crossbite watches them go out and gulps down the puddle in his coffee-cup. He signals for another cup. "So what's the history of this place?" he asks the counterman...
...have absolutely no idea," the counterman says...
...Nineteen twenty-eight," says the counterman...
...with the crossbite puts down his cup. "Nineteen twenty-eight? Fifty, sixty...sixty-two, sixty-four years. That taxi driver's been here sixty-four years." The counterman looks outside: there is no taxi in sight...
...German man has finished his last piece of toast, and he looks over at the other two customers. They are starting straight ahead. He eyes the counterman, who is back on the pay phone--"It's four in the morning, we can't deliver to Brookline," he is saying. "Yeah, we got salads." The German man puts on his raincoat and scurries out the door. "Hey!" the counterman yells, letting the phone drop and dangle above the ground. He dashes out onto the street, still yelling, and disappears...