Lunch

He’d only been awake a few minutes.

It started when he was shaving. Those images from last night’s TV news report! The war, the devastation, collapsed buildings, people starving, families, children. Then, that one horrific scene that somehow got seared into his brain. He began slapping cold water onto his face to shake himself out of it. Then, later, on the ride into town, the thought of all those poor souls without food or water. Again, all through the morning, in the office, thoughts of what those people were going through. It all came flooding back, again and again. He found himself wondering what he could do. There was very little, of course. Nothing he did could possibly have any effect on a war that was raging in a different part of the world.

Seeing that it was close to lunchtime, he thought he could show some kind of solidarity with those who were suffering, by keeping today’s lunch simple. When he entered the nearby café, the one he usually went to, basically a burger joint, he didn’t order food straight away, the way he usually did. He only ordered a cappuccino and sat at a table where he could easily read the large menu board, up above the counter.

He normally had a burger with extras. He was looking at these; namely the extra cost of adding, Bacon, Cheese, Mushrooms, Tomatoes, Pickles, Lettuce, Jalapenos, Chilli, Mayo, Onion, avocado… It was at this point that he noticed the new special offer on a board sitting on the counter. It announced the half-price Mega Burger, with THE LOT! Tuesdays Only.

It was Tuesday.

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