The Importance of Being in a Strange Place

"I don't even think that those people wanted to come in and do anything. I think they were just trying the door just to try it because they're so fucked up by being in this place," she says. A lot of her coworkers were from places like the place she was from, small, working-class towns. They could make an off-hand sexist joke one moment and then be really sweet and genuine the next. The mechanic who secretly tried to teach her how to knit gave her big-framed photographs of the Northern Lights.