About the work

They’d been playing here for a year, since the first of them started working at the car dealership where the inflatable came from. He’d offered her a cigarette break, she’d suggested setting up the board inside, and it had grown from there. The two new regulars didn’t even work at the dealership. They just turned up. All three of them knew the rules now, even if they were still learning to play. It was the only place they could go where nobody asked them to hurry up.