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...most noticeable item in the window of Montrose Spa, a small convenience store and sandwich shop up Mass. Ave. toward Porter Square, is a t-shirt bearing the text “02138: The world’s most opinionated zip code.” The sartorial statement has become a best-seller—a testament to confidence (at least among Montrose Spa clientele) in the slogan’s veritas...
Tomas Rodriguez, known as “Tommy” to the regular customers who greet him when they come in for a lotto ticket or sandwich, owns the store at 1646 Mass. Ave. “I have a customer in the t-shirt business. We thought about it and decided it was a good idea to print the shirts,” he says. Rodriguez began selling the shirts (and mugs and caps) last spring and they are flying out of the store. “Some people who live in Cambridge buy them, some for friends...
...society runs into all sorts of problems when one’s sense of individuality and one’s job become the same thing. If you really want to understand Dewey’s concerns, go to Subway and carefully watch seven dollars an hour make your sandwich. Then, once your sandwich has been put in the plastic bag, think about how different you and the Subway employee are. Depending on whether you’d rather lose your appetite or vomit, do this before or after you’ve eaten...
...cannot say the same for a Subway sandwich, of course, which is supposed to be the same regardless of who makes it. That’s the whole point. Precise preordained amounts of bread, turkey, cheese, tomatoes and mayonnaise. It does not matter who makes the sandwich, it always turns out the same and while one earning seven dollars an hours makes some semblance of a living, she in essence makes nothing else. There is no self-expression, self-creation or individuality—just a paycheck, just a job, the suffocation of self...
...ourselves so differently that it’s hard to imagine how she conceives of herself at all. I’m sure that she does, in some way, but I can’t seem to understand it; I just can’t get past the sandwich...