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The teller job at the Spring Mountain Savings & Loan is the best job Norma will ever have, she knows. And she doesn’t mind. Norma has never expected much from herself; nor from her people, or life in general.
For someone who got a GED eight years after dropping out of school, becoming a bank teller isn’t a bad job to get. It’s not bad at all. Norma signed up for the alternative high school night classes on a lark, mostly to pass the evenings after her shift at Super Foods! She was as surprised as anybody to discover she understood math and—lo!—enjoyed working with numbers. She took every math class the program offered.
The day after the awkward graduation ceremony and shabby celebration, Norma touted her new credentials at Super Foods! aiming to move up from bagger. She would have been promoted to cashier long before if she had let Billy, the day manager; act out one of the asinine fantasies he always whispered behind her back.
“He can snicker all he wants,” she told her coworkers. “He’s not getting his slimy mitts anywhere near me.”
Norma was ecstatic on the day she quit Super Foods! She wore the red spandex pants that made her ass bounce and the tiny Super Foods! T-shirt that exposed her tits and abs. Poor Billy was too frazzled to speak coherently. That was alright, though; Norma had plenty to say.
“This ain’t my first time at the rodeo, Billy. I know what you want. You just need to realize that you’re never gonna get it.”
Norma especially likes working at the West Cedar Street branch of S & M Savings & Loan, as she likes to think of it. She especially likes being on the till next to Maureen, who transferred over the previous month after a hold up at Central branch. Maureen’s nerves are a mess, and the smaller branch in the suburbs is more to her pace.
The West Cedar Street branch isn’t all great for Norma though. Instead of one smarmy manager hitting on her, she has every yuppie husband in the area smiling and winking at her and generally taking too damn long to complete a transaction. She spurs them to move things along by mentioning her 5 kids. No matter that it’s her neighbors’ children she’s thinking of.