Episode 9: He Didn’t Want to Trouble Anyone

A stranger enters The Brew with his hand pressed to his side and waits in line. Mazolli takes people’s orders until the man gets to the front of the line. Can I use your phone to call an ambulance? asks the man. I picked up a hitchhiker just outside of town who stabbed me. Stole my car, too. Mazolli calls nine one one while Terrastina takes the man to the back and bandages his wound. That must hurt, she says. Not that much, says the man. My mother was right, though. She always said never give rides to strangers.