Empty Mess

Empty Mess

SELF SERVE

Replace A Human

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Stephanie Mason-Teague
Apr 15, 2023
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The sound of a shoe … tap, tap, tapping on the tile … had been going on for a few minutes.

The woman in line behind me was letting me know she was tired of waiting, which wasn’t helping. The whole experience was not going according to plan, which led me to question what I was doing there in the first place.

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