The "Suggestion Box" was Marge's idea. She was the waitress at AL'S DINER.
"People might get, well, more interested in the place, Al."
He frowned. "Don't expect any better tips, Marge."
He wasn't wild about the idea. But he wasn't wild about many of the customers either.
After a month, Marge emptied the contents of the box.
“So… What'd they suggest?”
The last diners were gone. AL'S was closed until 6:00 AM.
Sitting at the plywood counter in the poor light, she tallied the results.
“Three people want real cream in the Cream of Tomato Soup… Four thought we should remove the soup entirely from the menu…”
Al had a large stock of canned soup. It wouldn't happen.
“One said to rename Pot Roast as Pot Luck.”
That he'd consider.
She looked up from the largest pile of slips. “But most thought…”
“What?”
“...that we should offer flyswatters with every order, Al.”
David Sydney is a physician who writes fiction in and out of the EHR (Electronic Health Record).
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