The life-approach of a(n early 30s) (Latino-American) customer...

…at the one (Thai) restaurant where I work now, where he’s picking up takeout and we get to talking and it turns out that it’s his 32^nd birthday that day and I tell him that I hope that he has something special planned:

He says that he’s going to chill and then go to a horror movie later that afternoon and then maybe go drink with friends later on, that’s what he usually does, anyways, since he tries to make sure that he never works on his birthday.

. . .

(Tries to make sure that he never works on his birthday – what a window into his life, and the types of jobs that he must have.)