My Boss Charged Her $425 For A Repair That Cost Almost Nothing. I Fixed Her Scooter For Free After Closing And Was Fired By Nine The Next Morning

Malik Bennett was seventeen, still in high school, and the name tag under the shop's stitched logo on his shirt still said Trainee because Gary Peterson liked it that way. He had watched his boss overcharge single mothers and elderly drivers for almost a year and kept his mouth shut, because his mother worked doubles at the hospital and his little sister needed school clothes. Then a small woman in a mended floral dress pushed a blue mobility scooter through the door, and Gary quoted her four hundred and twenty-five dollars for a slipping belt.