Ninety-One Thousand Dirty Pennies Dumped on a Driveway in Oak Creek
“The notice on the menu board gave us until Friday afternoon.”
“The county audit software shuts down at noon Thursday, rolled or not,” he said.
“The state server locks the portal on its own.
If the combined lunch balance of nine hundred eight dollars and forty cents isn’t entered by 12:01, the computer sends twenty-three student files straight to the collection agency in Terre Haute.”
“That leaves me twenty-nine hours,” I said.
My thumb rubbed hard across my knuckles.
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