The Griddle
“A footlocker, turned into an oven, in a building where owning a lighter could get you written up.”
Listen Above, Or Begin The Excerpt BelowThey take almost everything from you going in.
What's left is three trays a day nobody would call cooking, and two or three dollars for a full day's work, if you can call it work.
Whatever else you have comes from outside — a mother, a girlfriend, somebody willing to keep sending what they can so you're not standing there with nothing.
That's the math most men are working with.
Not much, and most of what little there is comes from someone else's pocket.
Everybody had the same brown footlocker.
Regulation size, fits under the bunk, big enough to hold a body if it needed to.
Most men used theirs for food, cosmetics, whatever clothes wouldn't fit in the locker up top. Some men used theirs as a chair.
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