I wouldn’t bet on that. They’re minors doing dangerous road work where one of them could get seriously injured, plus there are regulations for road repairs that I’m pretty sure they aren’t following. They mean well but this isn’t a great idea.
So the joke here is Lillian can’t sell any of her crummy books and they think that’s somehow funny?
“Hahaha, I bet nobody wanted to read your lousy book and you totally bombed out, Lilllian! It must have crushed your spirit to sit there the whole week and not have one single person come to your table!!”
At what point are we going to find out what Luann actually came there for? Because it wasn’t this.