A slower evening at the one (Thai) restaurant where I work now.

So, like over a month ago at the one (Thai) restaurant I work now, I was working a double, and during the morning shift I made sure to take all of the quarters that I'd brought in for my one (chubby) (Thai) coworker, and I put them inside an old receipt and I folded it and stapled it around the edges and I put on it --

GIVE

ME 

$5, [her first name]

-- since she always takes quarters from me and gives me back bills in return, so she has them to do laundry with since I guess wherever she goes to do laundry, it's a coin-operated place, she doesn't have access to her own non-pay washing machine, and so she needs quarters all the time for that.

And, I did that on the lunch shift and left the little packet out on the counter in our work area, so she would see it when she came in for dinner shift; quite a few times when I've brought in quarters for her, I forget that I have them, and I haul them all the way in and then all the way home, which isn't that big of a deal, it's just a big lump in your pocket, but still, it's a pain, so, that's why I did that.

And, she saw them, and she didn't have five dollars on her, but we negotiated so that she'd remember to give that to me next time, and then later that night, I look at the coin-packet, and there's a little tear towards the center that must have come from somewhere (maybe even from picking up the packet and having the coin-edges shift and slide around)..

"What?!", I was like, taking her and showing her the little tear towards the center of the coin-packet. "What is this?! You don't trust me, and you have to tear it open to make sure that I'm not giving you pennies or nickels?!"

Then, I was like, "You are one of the most creative people I know -- you always find new ways of breaking my heart."

And, I also took a pen and added to the words on the little coin-packet, "(and trust)", so it was like telling her, "Give me $5 (and trust)".

 Later, too, she was saying that she was watching this social media video about gay marriage in (Thailand), and it made her cry...  There was this lesbian couple that had been together 30 years in this one village and they ran a restaurant together in their village and everything, and no-one knew they were a couple, everyone just thought they were friends who ran a restaurant together, and then they got married and everyone found out and all the village came together and celebrated.

So, I said what I have said a few times over the past number of months since (Thailand) passed its gay marriage law, that our restaurant should put up a (pride) flag and a (Thai) flag together in the window along with a sign that says something like, "Come celebrate gay marriage in Thailand," and then as a special dessert we sell pieces of wedding cake, or maybe some kind of cake with rainbow frosting.

"People here would love that," I was like. "Everyone around here is so liberal, they'd think, 'Awwww, that's so nice, let's go eat there!'"

"People around here are always looking for something to do," too, I added.