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Submitted to Contest #234
Normally, if you come to work late, sneak down below the closed circuit TV and try to smudge the time stamp on the punch card β there not many problems unless you missed another staff meeting. Now if you were the leader of this staff meeting and your bossesβ bosses were in attendance, and the meeting was about Professional Conduct and you worked in a small city with no traffic excuses or terrorist bomb threats but you had maybe hit the :::snooze button a few too many times and the coffee wasn't strong enough to fire the imaginative parts ...
Submitted to Contest #174
My wife walks down the hall and asks me to put my hand in her pocket.I comply.She's asking what the day has given -- more specifically "If [I] know what [I] have been given?" For all the fresh air, unlimited clothes drying on the line, and the beauty of a sand yard.Ummm... I try to tell her that I am grateful. "I even collected the spiders (with a vacuum using your lingerie,) See?"She wants to see the jar where I put the spiders. It's a Vlassic jar that once housed sa...
Sometimes I get emotional because I'm trying to care. Again.
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