Near my home sits a tax preparation business that during the first quarter of each year works extra hard to draw in customers. Thus annually arrives the waver, a seasonal employee required to dance on a street corner for four hours at a time, all while wearing a Statue of Liberty costume.
I live in Southern California, where the temperatures can soar well into the 90s as early as March. The waver position is physically grueling. Yet this one waver, in particular, perpetually greets me with a smil