GREAT READS → STORY SUPPLEMENT Issue 806 · April 5, 2020

The Shortcut

All Ezzy had to do was give each pot a quick rinse. How hard could that be?

The Shortcut

Ezzy Danberg looked at his watch.

“Oh,” he thought to himself. “It’s almost time to pick my job.”

Every year, before Pesach, the Danberg family would meet in the kitchen, and each family member would pick a crumpled paper out of an old goldfish bowl. On each paper was written a different Pesach cleaning job.

Ezzy thought back to the year before, when he and his two brothers had been given the job of cleaning out their minivan.

The Danberg family spent a lot of time in their minivan. Although they tried to clean it from time to time, a lot of crumbs, pizza crusts, and wrappers inevitably piled up on the floor of the car. The boys had divided up the job: Ezzy would sweep out all the large crumbs and wrappers, then his brothers would come and do all the rest.

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