W Is For Will

Love is pausing a movie to debate fake sales figures given and calculating a make believe NY storefront profit margin for the year 1998 using their minimum wage rate, so then you check the St. Louis Fed website for historical wage amounts, dwell over the fact that minimum wage hasn’t increased more than $2.50 in nearly 20 years, shaking your head and asking “where has America  gone”, then you and try to see if you can find rent statistics for upper west side apartments in the same era on Reddit only to find dudes talking about renovated studios in the East Village in 1982 so that doesn’t help you make a proper estimate on possible rent costs for the shop. Eventually ending the debate with agreeing that her paying that much in payroll is probably why her shop is burning cash to stay open while her AOL boyfriend’s box store takes all the business yet they fall in love anyway.