The "lay-off" at the company where Wing works has been extended from 3 weeks to 6 weeks. It was announced yesterday.

The co-workers had scheduled a party for tonight, to celebrate the return to work. The party went on as scheduled, but there was not much celebrating.

Long faces and quiet whispers... about mortgages, car payments and other bills and expressions of the real fear of flat running out of money. They didn't even fire up the karaoke machine.
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