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Working at Elvin’s Bakery
I race my brother, Brandon, through the back
door of mom's bakery to run the cash
register during winter vacation.
Brandon serves customers.
Sand art pictures hang in handmade koa wood frames.
Cases display cakes, bread pudding, lemon bars, and crème
brulee.
Uncle Elvin hand makes vanilla cream horns in the back
one-by-one
to the tunes of Krater 96 and the noise of the traffic
outside.
A customer asks me to microwave her Portuguese Sausage Roll.
It finishes heating; the aroma of gooey, melted cheese and
Portuguese sausage wafts around the cafe.
Customers might say one dollar and fifty cents is a lot for
one cup of coffee.
Not if you're using a seventeen thousand dollar cappuccino
machine!
The fragrance of a freshly brewed cup
of coffee is slightly overwhelming.
Fortune strikes while I am working.
A customer comes to pick up a Christmas order.
She pays for it and gives me a twenty dollar tip.
How about that?
by Eugene Au
7th grade, `Iolani School
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