“In walks these girls in nothing but bathing suits”(90). The girls disillusioned Sammy; he was awestruck by the way they were dressed. He had never seen anyone enter the convenient store dressed like that. The women that usually enter the store “generally put on a shirt or shorts or something before they get out of the car into the streets.” (91). Sammy is a very sarcastic individual, and passes judgment on what he thinks of them throughout the story. The first girl that Sammy notices is a plump girl with a “soft looking can with those two crescents of

Sammy’s boss tries to remind him of how his parents won’t be happy with his quitting “Lengel (Sammy’s boss) sighs and begins to look very impatient and old and gray. He’s been a friend of my parents for years. Sammy, you don’t want to do this to your Mom and Dad,” he tells me. It’s true, I don’t. But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it’s fatal not to go through with it…I know that’s true, too, but remembering how he made that poor girl blush makes me so scrunshy inside.” (94). He is glad that it is summer so he doesn’t have to gather any of his belongings. I don’t think Sammy had to quit his job for the three girls, but he certainly proved his point. That his boss didn’t have to be mean to the girls to get his point across.

The first two girls that Sammy saw he considered “sheep”(90) following Queenie, because they walked everywhere following right behind her. The bathing suit Queenie was wearing was “dirty pink…the straps were down.”(90) This made her appear to be naked from the top of the suit up. Sammy really liked her. He and his co-worker did not have anything to do until they came to their register so they watched and waited. Queenie knew that the two boys were watching her, but did not acknowledge them.

white just under it one of those chubby berry-faces, the lips all bunched together under her nose”(90). The sight of her made him mistakenly charge a woman standing in line twice for a box of crackers, “I ring it up again and the customer starts giving me hell. She’s one of these cash register watchers, a witch about fifty with rouge on her cheek bones and no eye brows, and I know it made her day to trip me up”(90). The second girl that Sammy notices is much

Sammy’s

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