What the winter taught the shop
Sunday, March 15th, 2009 · 7:00 pm
The electricity is better since last week, four hours on, two off. I counted what we sold in the dark months. Candles were not on the list, but they sold. Battery packs were sold out three times. Chargers for the car, same. Radios with a handle that you turn, two hundred of them, to a customer who said: "I would like to hear the news without asking the socket."
The thing I did not expect: people came to the shop to stand. The shop had a generator. We let them charge a phone for free for ten minutes, and they stood by the counter, talking about the dam, the prices, the cousins. It was the warmest place on the avenue. The boss said: "You see, a shop is not a counter, it is a room." I wrote it on my hand.
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We did the same at the medical college, with the one socket in the corridor. We called it "the church of the phone".
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