What’s it like working in a male-dominated environment where everyone is between the ages of 17 & 24? I’m so glad you asked.
“Hey, how do I professionally tell [district manager] this ain’t it, Chief?” - my 19yr old site manager
“Bug race. Bug race. Bug race. Bug race.” - this chant went on for 40 minutes while they scoured for bugs to race in a maze they’d built
“Is my [literally anything] supposed to do this? {proceeds to show themselves doing something that they definitely should not be able to do} It kinda hurts when I do.”
[random screaming]
“What would happen if I ate this?”
{new guy tries to be chivalrous and hold the door for me} “dude, why’d you do that?”
“Because gentlemen hold the doors for ladies?”
“Man, she ain’t a lady. She’s Maggie. Doesn’t count.”
“Pulp fiction isn’t even a good movie.” - this got me kicked out of the group chat for three weeks
In the group chat: [monkey meme] [monkey gif] [monkey stock photo] [monkey trivia fact] [monkey video] [link to monkey video on YouTube] “munky munky”
“Maggie, my girl is mad at me and I can’t figure out why.”
“are you asking her bc she’s a girl?”
“No dude, I’m asking her bc she’s smarter than us.”
“I don’t think I’m straight. Have you seen Ryan Reynolds? Yeah… I don’t know anymore.”
“Did you know the new soap dyes your hands Barbie pink?” [holds up bright pink hands] cause I just found out!”
[more on the previous one] “bro that’s not Barbie pink, that’s fuschia!”
“No it’s not!” {argues back and forth before new guy joins in}
“I think it’s more of a periwinkle.”
“Bro, periwinkle is a purple. Have you never looked at a color before in your life?”
[random projectile flies past my head] “shit! Incoming!”
[random push-up contest]
“Do you think my dog knows I would die for her?”
“You guys know when [vague hand movement] just kinda [even vaguer hand movement] and you just [weird and vague hand movement]?”
“Bro, yes.”
“What were you listening to in your car when I pulled up?” [proudly] “the cheetah girls, bro!”
“Do you think I could take a badger in a fight?”
[random period of absolute silence that either lasts forever or is ended by a random scream]
[someone finds a stick] “you shall not pass”
“You are what you eat, right?”
“Bro what? We’re talking about baseball.”
After the entire staff had heard about me making friendship bracelets for the Taylor Swift concert, I had 4 (out of 6) of them ask me to make them one.
“Do you ever just [like two minutes of complete silence], ya know?”
“I don’t think meeting God could even compete, dude.” - I have no context for this statement
“Sometimes, I just [heavy sigh] and sometimes it’s enough.”
“I need new songs to scream in my car.” [shows them Cruel Summer and DBATC by Taylor Swift] “Dude, make me a playlist. I need more songs like these!”
[loud clattering] “Oh shit. Don’t tell, [manager].”
Manager : “what’d you break?”
“Who decided our company mascot should be a pigeon?”
Manager gives vague answer about corporate and how we’re a car wash so it makes sense.
“Well, they’re dumb. I think our mascot should be a racecar.”
“Do you think I would get workers comp if I had a mental breakdown?”
“No.”
“Damn. Imma reschedule it for my day off then. Hey, [manager], can I have two days off back to back next week?”
“Do I get commission for the customers I scare away?”
“That’s the opposite of how commission works.”
“Well, I’m up to three today.”
[random old guy makes a comment about how women shouldn’t try to do a man’s job] “dude, acting like a dick doesn’t make yours any bigger.”
“Does anyone wanna watch Barbie’s Princess and the Pauper with me on Tuesday?” [everyone said yes] - we’re going to see the new Barbie movie together for “team bonding”
“Did you know that if you do this [proceeds to do some weird flippy thing that makes him fall], you can bruise all your ribs at the same time?”
After seeing a video of Taylor Swift diving into the stage at the Eras Tour : “dude, it’s a really good thing she’s a singer and not a swimmer because that was a bellyflop.”
“Wait. Is Hozier a lesbian?” - I have no context for this question
“If I was a worm, you guys would still play COD with me right?”
“No. We’d lose.”
“We could team up against him and beat his worm-ass!”
“Shit yeah! Then yes.”
[random dancing]
“I wanna jump in that puddle…”
“then jump in it?”
“Ok bet” [spends the last five minutes of his shift splashing in a mud puddle]
“Dude, my [12 year old] sister just got dumped by her boyfriend, what do I do?”
“Take her on a date, dude. I take my sisters out all the time because they should know how a dude should treat them.”
[random trauma dumping] “but yeah, lmao, right?”
Me: [chillin] [randomly gets picked up and carried] - this is an action I have approved, it is both hilarious and fun
“Don’t be weird about it, bro.”
“I’m not gunna be weird about it, bro.” [proceeds to be absolutely weird about it]
“What’s your favorite candy?” [tells them] [receives a two pound bag of my favorite candy the next day] “I’m sorry I yelled at you last week.”
[after he was invited to a party with drugs & alcohol] “My therapist said I shouldn’t do that anymore. It’s shit for my mental health.”
“Okay, bro. We can just play COD instead.”
[randomly tackling each other in the grass]
“Dude, I love you so much, bro. You’re an awesome guy to be friends with.” [proceeds to smack each other back and forth for like three minutes straight]
[complaining about how his seven-month-old is going through a sleep regression and he hasn’t slept more than two hours in a week] “dude, that sucks. I can ask my mom for tips, if you want?”
[random video clip sent in group chat] “wait, Maggie don’t watch that” [watches it anyways] “bro, that’s a video of you and your cat playing peek-a-boo, why couldn’t I watch that?” - I never got a response
[quiet giggling] manager: “what are you doing?”
“Nothing!” - they were hiding his clipboard
“Bro, Taylor Swift probably wrote a song about it.”
“That was literally so homophobic, it’s homoerotic.”
[in the group chat] “Y’all, I have news.” [all but one person responds asking about it] “I wanna wait until everyone responds” [four hours later, the last person responds asking about it] [ten minutes of silence] “oh, yeah. I’m gay.” - this man has been out for over a decade. Everyone already knew. This was not news.
[random tiktok link] [random tiktok link] [random tiktok link]
“Does anyone know how to use epilepsy?”
“Epilepsy? The seizure thing?”
“No the three dots.”
“Bro, that’s ellipsis.”
“I thought that was the exercise machine.”
“No, that’s an elliptical.” - I know this is a tiktok trend now, but this entire conversation was dead serious
“Do I need to go to the hospital if I got bit by a squirrel?” [everyone yells at him to go to the ER] [someone asks how he got bit by a squirrel] “I wanted to know if they were as fluffy as they look.” - he has confirmed that they are, indeed, as fluffy as they look but you most certainly should never attempt to pet a squirrel
“Bro look at this” [picture of something brutal and gory] “isn’t that cool?”
“I think I could be a professional driver.”
“Didn’t you break your axel by hitting a curb?”
“That doesn’t mean I can’t drive.”
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"i want the k"
kiss roulette
18. A kiss while laughing
To the say the two were enjoying themselves would be an understatement. Perhaps they were enjoying themselves too much, even. They were the host of the get-together after all. Shouldn't they be making sure the others were having a good time? Well, there hadn't been any complaints so far so they felt it was safe to say it was going well especially since they weren't the only ones on the dance floor. They had managed to put together quite the large gathering if they did say so themselves-- and they did. A number of times. They were far too inebriated to be humble it seemed.
"No one could pull off something like this like we did!" Ino finds herself shouting as she and Naruto bounced to the music alongside the many others on the crowded dance floor. They were in the center of it all, of course, the life of the party at their own party as Naruto had taken it upon himself earlier to pull Ino towards the middle of the dance floor once the two of them had had enough to drink for a while.
"'course not, we're the only ones that know how 'ta have fun!" the Uzumaki responds with equal enthusiasm as he grabs her hand to haphazardly twirl her, the abruptness of it causing the other blonde to fall forward as her hands landed on his chest and a series of giggles spilled from her. Ino and Naruto had went on and on about how they were doing this because everyone really needed a chance to relax, but maybe it was these two that had needed it the most.
The irony of it all is that these two had been at each other's throats half the time they had been planning this thing. It was hardly a cohesive meeting of the minds with the two rejecting each other's ideas and then letting bruised egos get in the way but they had somehow managed to pull it off. The fact that they were on speaking terms much less each others' primary dancing partners tonight was quite the spectacle with all that in mind.
Ino's had slide her hands up and past his head to rest her arms on his shoulder as his hands rest on her hips, the two continuing to sway happily to the music as the reveled in the atmosphere of it all. If they two managed to keep themselves coherent enough, this was really a night to remember.
A thought popped into Ino's head.
"Hey, hey," she starts, getting Naruto's attention without having to raise her voice too much since they were closer now, "We should promise to not plan parties with ANYONE else but each other, don't ya think?" The Uzumaki seems to agree as he quickly nods and Ino grins up at him, "Okay, cool, shake on it?"
"Sure, but ya know, my hands are kinda busy," the Uzumaki blurts out as if he couldn't simply take a hand off her hip to seal the deal. Ino can't help the laugh that escapes at his reasoning up until she moves her hands to the sides of his face and pulls him into a kiss. The kiss is brief enough that Ino doesn't pay much mind to it, even when Naruto gives her a peck in return after she pulls away, but glimmers of sobriety have a funny way of making an appearance at the worst of times.
What the hell was that?
It takes the rational part of her mind a good minute to meet with the inebriated part of her mind for an answer but then it finally clicks. Since they weren't able to shake on it, the blonde in her drunken state had decided to use another method of sealing the deal. Ino's eyes flicker up to the Uzumaki's and it seems like she's not the only one that just realized what happened.
To their credit, both of them still manage to keep dancing as they are hit with the realization, perhaps it was a subconscious attempt to try and pretend it didn't happen in the hope that no one else had noticed despite the two situating themselves in the center of the room. This doesn't last long, however, before Ino suddenly says, "Wanna get a drink? I could use a drink." and the two immediately make a beeline to bar in hopes that they can beat out their creeping sobriety before it makes things even worse.
This was certainly still a night they hoped their guests remembered, maybe just not that part.
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