Eight Thousand Gallons of Milk and a Small Blue Ledger

strap again. “They do not want to see plastic bottles being filled by thirty-year-old machinery.”

“Wayne was only checking the vacuum,” I said.

“Wayne is suspended for insubordination,” Gregory said. “He refused to run the morning batch of Apex jugs.”

“Because they split,” I said.

“Because he is loyal to a design that does not work anymore,” Gregory said.continue reading …