So, for practical reasons (the crowding around the till was bad for business) and for personal ones (she was exhausted by the consideration she felt obliged to show the people interested in her), Carson Michaels devised a question to ask of every suitor: what is the only object that makes me cry? She would ask the question three times. If a man or woman could not answer it by the third ask, they would find themself banished from Lee’s Garage.
