Chapter 6 - The Coffee

For Claire, today is really quite a long day. After waiting for about three hours for Mr. Wong to do Mr. Tan's laundry, the proprietor of Leed's simply informed her to please return another day as the business of performing a miracle on the ruined boxers turned out to be much more challenging than first thought. This after she had to spend the hours killing time at a very stressful place: the hole-in-the-wall where she had lunch was the setting of some domestic drama, as a woman walked in and began screaming at a man and another woman dining there. It turned out, the screaming woman was the legitimate wife, and the man was having an affair with the other woman he was having his lunch with. It was so utterly complicated, and deeply nerve-wracking, as everyone in the place had to listen to the trio air their dirty laundry—that reminded her of Mr. Wong's business—in public. What has the world gone to now?