So last week at work, I had a really bad day. Like it was one of those days when not only do you not have any real work, but the work you did do comes back all wrong and you're feeling bullied by your co-workers and the more you hide in your office, the more stuff outside your office goes wrong.
As a result, I decided to reward myself with a shopping trip. So off I go to this mall that I heard has amazing stores at outlet prices. I thought, This will be a nice little pick me up. I can get myself a new wardrobe for $5. =P Because the outlets were a bit of a hike, I decided to hop on the subway and head on over. As I got out of my stop, to my horror, I learned, buses stopped running. Of course, why expect anything different if you're taking the TTC? *rolls eyes* Now I was determined to give myself this pick me up. No stupid bus cancellation was going to stop me from my shopping trip!
Being the resourceful girl I am, I flag down a school bus and persuade the driver to give me a ride. Okay, no, more like it was them that saw me walking on the side of the road and offered to give me a ride since they were obviously heading in my direction. I learned as I accepted this offer and took my seat that it was a church group, also heading to the same mall I was going. I dunno...maybe it was a trip to boost group morale? I was on this trip to boost my morale, wasn't it?
To my shock, as I saw down, who was sitting across from me??? A co-worker of mine! He and my manager were quite good friends from what I gathered at work. He was a very nice young gentleman. Reminded me of boys from home. (hometown, not the other "back home") But the strange this was, he was acting like he didn't know me. For some reason, the entire group was calling him by a different name. And a name I had never heard him being called before (this co-worker of mine is one with name nicknames).
I guess the church group had one more stop to make on it's way before we reached the mall. They stopped over and picked up some girl. Of course this girl had to choose to sit beside. And of course she had to want to take up the entire seat. And of course she had to start elbowing. And I had to elbow back. And then she started screaming and crying. And NO, she wasn't 5. This was a 20 year old girl here, ladies and gentlemen. Well the advantage of being a crybaby in this church group versus being the hitchhiker they picked up on the side of the road? The church group believes the crybaby. I was removed to the back of the bus, and get this - they put my co-worker on guard duty! Like I posed a greater risk than Elbow McElbow-Face!
Whatever! That's all I was thinking by this point. I'm gonna get to the mall and key the bus! Thankfully, though my co-worker acted like he didn't know me, he was still a lenient guard because he did recognize me. When we finally reached our destination, of course I couldn't go shopping yet? Why you may ask???....
...because the Business Manager from my old job was there! Like right there in the middle of the main entrance to the mall, sitting herself down beside the stupid water fountain. Now given my current state of mind, this meeting was of course where I had to give her a piece of my mind. Out came everything - how I was mislead into accepting the position, how she distanced herself from all the real issues in the work place, how she let the manager run that place into the ground when she should have intervened - stuff I didn't even know came out of me.
At this point I walked off indignantly...walked away from the stupid day at work and the stupid church group and the stupid elbowing girl on the bus and the stupid Business Manager.
Oh, and did I mention this was all a dream?
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6 comments:
oh i had a dream like this too but when i was at my old workplace...
even though it was a dream did you end up buying anything? ;)
WOW! That was a pretty detailed dream. I hardly ever remember mine :(
You have some VIVID imagination man!! The whole time I was thinking, this is the sort of thing that happens in TV shows!! Like what are the odds that a church group on a bus was passing by and offerred you a ride AND they were going to the exact same place you were! The rest of it I believed tho ;)
Wow that's a complicated dream! You deserve a real shopping trip now!
Hahaha, you guys are jokes...
I realized afterwards that maybe people don't care what I dream about. But then I thought, why not chance it? =P
If you guys thought this was weird, you should hear my Back to the Future dream...
I was about to ask you for a full description of Elbow McElbow-Face and throw a few of my elbows in her face. How I would do that from all the way here is another story - sic Maaniya on her?
You do indeed have a vivid imagination. I was wondering why you didn't talk to the co-worker that was ignoring you...
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