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“Gimme a box a Gashas, homes.”

“A box of whats?”

“Gashas!” I give my blankest blank stare. “Fuckin’ Gashas, man! Gashas!” He waves a drunk finger, trying to point at something behind me. I look around as if there might be some item for sale back there I’ve never noticed before. “Gasha why Vegas! Blunts!” he yells.

“Oh, Garcia y Vegas… it’s ‘gar-see-a eee vay-has.’ It’s Spanish.”

“What fuckin’ ever, just give ‘em.”

“Only when you say it right.”

“You’re an asshole.”

“Do you have ID?”

He reaches across the counter with a finger like the head of a pick, and taps my name tag, hard, once after “Fuck” and again after “You.” I’m confident if anything happens to me, the dummy cameras are watching.