Josh set his drink aside on the lounge side table and then put his arm around Ida. She looked up into his eyes as she held her drink out to the side to allow him to kiss her. Before they kissed he took her drink and placed it beside his on the table. Ida giggled, thinking how representative the drink was of their situation with the glasses touching each other. “Would you like to dance?” he asked. “Yes, that would be nice,...

On Thursday, the boss came down to the lunchroom to have lunch with the crew. Jon immediately, like everybody else, knew that something was happening. Jon already knew that orders had been slow and he had discussed that with some of the others on the shop floor. They all agreed that if their boss was thinking of putting someone off then most of them preferred to work a shorter week than have a man sacked. After lunch, bef...