How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill

Michelle over at A Reader's Respite caught me skipping Teaser Tuesdays and has tagged me with a bookworm meme.

In the Bookworm Meme, we are required to grab the book closest to us (no exceptions), turn to page 56, and tell everyone what line 5 says.

I did not get caught re-writing "Attitude" in the dictionary like someone did,

but did get get caught worrying about the economy and reading How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else by Michael Gates Gill.

After his fall from grace as a high-flying advertising executive, Gill is hired as an entry-level worker in Starbucks. Although the Starbucks Open House was held at a coffee shop near his apartment in Bronxville, the shop that hires him is at 93rd and Broadway.

Line 5 on page 56 is part of Gill telling about his commute to his new job:

"I stood at the Bronxville station waiting for the 7:22 train to New York. I was not due to start my shift until 10:30 that morning -- but wanted to give myself more than enough time. The train from Bronxville to Grand Central took at least thirty minutes. The shuttle from Grand Central was another ten to twenty minutes to Time Square. From there I would jump on an express up to the West Ninety-sixth Station. I could then walk just a block or so to my store."

In addition to the change in geography, Gill talks about how working with co-workers at least 40 years younger than he is, working in a diverse environment, and having a young African American woman as his new boss take him well outside his existing comfort zone.

Have you read this book? Is this economy (or are other situations) pushing you outside of your comfort zone -- geographically or otherwise?

For this meme, I'm tagging the following bookworms to tell us what they're reading:

1. Smash, at Great Books and Fresh Coffee
2. Lisa Jo at My Fabulous Baker Boys
3. James at The Sky's the Limit
4. Jo-Jo at Jo-Jo Loves to Read and
5. Jill at Jill Jill Bo Bill