Which would you rather have?

A new skateboard.
A new guitar.
A new outfit.
A new iPod.

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“A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”

The Young Waiter

Impatient to close the cafe and go home to his wife, he insults the deaf old man, who, of course, can’t hear him.

The Old Waiter

An old man, like the deaf old man, he lives alone and is sympathetic to the old man’s drinking until he is drunk.

The Old Man

About 80 years old and deaf, the old man is drinking brandy in the very early hours of the morning in a Spanish cafe.

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