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1000 lines since the last Ted story?
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Minerva and Ron sat silent in the car. Ron focused on driving while
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Minerva frowned at the horizon.
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"We should have stayed there and made sure he got help."
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"Help? What help is there for him? It's a miracle he didn't end up
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killing anyone. I know it's my 'duty' as manager to make sure the store's safe
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but the guys'll fill in everything for the cops and EMTs and Ted'll get put
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away in a place where he can't do more harm. That was a traumatic event,
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Minerva. I want something to take the edge off and I wanna forget the fire and
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Ted ever happened."
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Minerva looked at the steering weel. "That's not a healthy coping
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mechanism, you know."
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Ron stared into the horizon. "Oh, fuck off. If you thought any
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differently than I did you wouldn't have gotten in the car." They started to
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accelerate.
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Ted had been watching the second building burn that day for probably
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half an hour before he heard footsteps in the brush behind him. "You rat
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bastard!"
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Ted turned around to find a police officer with his gun already drawn.
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"Oh. Hi. Are cops allowed to swear?"
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The officer's hands' tremble was slight but visible. "Ted."
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Ted read the officer's name tag. "Jack?"
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"Tom. Tom Jack. You were at my brother's Christmas party."
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Ted remembered a Tally Jack with which he worked. Tally invited Ted to
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his Christmas party about three months prior and Ted at the time regretted
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showing up. Being beaten with blessings and suffocated by songs playing in
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background commercials. Every present had a logo and everybody already knew the
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brands. Ted was the odd one out, as usual. "Tom."
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"How could you? You could have killed all of your co-workers - why burn
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down the office? You could have killed my brother." Tom's voice quivered.
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Ted tilted his head and thought for a moment. "Nobody died. Would have
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been cooler if they all did, yeah." He smiled softly.
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Officer Jack, now angry, gripped his gun with both hands. "I could
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arrest you, and the judge would give you a sentence, but that wouldn't be
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justice. If you got out you'd just do this again, wouldn't you?" Ted nodded.
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"Me killing you right now is justice. To Hell with the consequences."
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Ted stood and watched the officer staring into his eyes but only
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reciprocated in the same way a doll or teddy bear makes eye contact. Without
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presence.
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"So." Tom exhaled. "Goodbye." Tom braced for Ted's reaction.
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There was none. Tom squared his soldiers. "Okay."
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Ted finally reacted. "Car."
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"What?" And then it hit Tom with all two tons of force; an ambulance
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driven under the influence. Its brakes squealed but the tires couldn't catch
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the dry grass and the ambulance sucked Tom under where he was run over by all
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four wheels before being spit out on the other side ten seconds from death and
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with his top ten most vital organs all perforated in one way or another. "Man."
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Ted watched the light leave Tom's eyes as the ambulance driver
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staggared out of the vehicle. Tom in terms of presentation wasn't too gruesome,
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though death did have somewhat of an effect on his composure. It struck Ted as
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a boring dead body.
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The driver put his hands on the sides of his head. "Oh man, oh man, oh
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man..." Ted was surprised he hadn't been the one hit but then remembered he
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didn't care, and that the ambulance driver wasn't on fire.
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"Can you hold still for a second?"
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The driver paused and looked at Ted. "...What?"
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Arson Ted is my favorite character.
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2023-01-08
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What I found in Flipnote Studio 3D for my Nintendo 3DS:
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- 2019-09-25 0646: 9 frames. Bouncing ball demo.
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- 2019-10-11 1736: 28 frames. Bouncing ball demo (the ball is liquid).
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- 2019-12-16 1304: 30 frames. The word "FUCK" turns into strings and
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falls onto the floor. It recollects as
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a heart with "YOU" in the middle.
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- 2011-01-01 2110: 60 frames. A stick figure falls into the ground and
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(likely a clock leaves an impression in the snow; climbs
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issue) out. Letters appear above them: "SOVIETS
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WITHOUT A PARACHUTE (tm)
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- 2011-09-30 1004: 4 frames. A stick figure masturbating.
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(likely a clock
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issue)
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- 2020-11-09 2257: 55 frames. A stick figure waits at a dinner table
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holding a fork and knife, wearing a bib.
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Another stick figure slides a dish to the
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other end of the table. The first stick
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figure looks down and their mouth extends
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into crocodile-like jaws before they take
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a bite out of the entire section of the
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table with the dish. The second stick
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figure extends their mouth likewise and
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smiles.
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- 2020-11-10 2302: 2 frames. A small drawing of a teddy bear next to
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the shaky words くまちゃん: <BR />
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「ACAB」.
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- 2020-11-16 1746: 2 frames. Words on top of a flashing yellow and
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white background: i <3 LOOTERS.
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Today I tried playing Professor Layton and the Curious Village for the
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Nintendo DS. It was too hard and I've given up. Half the puzzles are total
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bogus (you have one match and want to heat your bathtub, start a fire, and
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light your lamp; which do you light first?.. your match). The story looks good
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and I like the FMV cutscenes. Maybe I'll find an edit of all of them on-line.
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I rediscovered Paper Airplane Chase (DSiWare) which I had when I was a
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very small child on my DSi XL. I played it a lot and enjoyed it but now it
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looks to me like it's probably an asset flip of some part of another game.
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Maybe WarioWare?
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In total people owe me $545. I'm hoping I can get that by the time next
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month's rent is due.
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/home/trinity/Pictures/the_end_of_the_world.webm (2021-03-04 2104; 3991 KB;
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origin unknown)
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00:00: A picture of Tim and Moby from MobyMax.
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00:00: A picture of Captain Underpants.
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00:01: A picture of a Nintendo Wii.
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00:02: The poster for Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (2011).
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00:02: A screenshot from PAPA's TACO MIA.
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00:03: A picture of a kid with outstretched hands displaying
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Sillybandz.
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00:03: Bodycam footage of an officer shooting a figure in the desert.
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Dated 2018-10-10 1454.
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00:04: Video of a police officer shooting a man in the street. The
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police officer behind him is held back by a bystander.
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00:04: Video of a TSA agent searching a child for weapons.
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00:05: Video of another TSA agent searching a toddler in a wheelchair
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for weapons.
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00:06: A screen capture of a computer system using facial recognition
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to track school class attendance.
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00:06: A screenshot from a TSA body scanning computer.
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00:07: A Department of Defense press release showing 3D render of an
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"active denial system".
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00:08: Footage from a massacre at a mosque in Christchurch, New
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Zealand.
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00:09: A screen capture of a computer system tracking the positions of
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students at a school.
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00:09: Footage of a police officer pulling a police canine off of a
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figure.
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00:10: A picture of a poster at a school. Visible is a yellow smiley
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face with "Smile" above and "You're on camera!" below. To the
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right visible is the following fragment:
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Our new bus
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you have a sa
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We have pros
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and graffiti on
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(italic) You are being
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(italic) bus. So just sit
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WE WILL P
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OR
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00:10: A snippet from Sunday Today with Willie Geist, headline: JEFFREY
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EPSTEIN'S DEATH LEAVES ANGER AND QUESTIONS.
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2022-05-04
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Orientation
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Olive arrived the next day at 9 o'clock antemeridian having been
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informed of the time she'd start work two hours prior via electronic mail. She
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entered the restaurant via the two sets of glass double doors and walked to the
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counter.
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"Hi, I'm Olive, I'm here for my first day of work here."
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The kid at the counter looked like they hadn't slept in weeks. "Hi
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Olive, I'll go get the manager." They disappeared and returned from the back of
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the restaurant which didn't seem to be lit, accompanied by a man Olive hadn't
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met. He grimaced in an attempt to smile. "Hi Olive. Usually Paul would be here
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but he's out sick."
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"Sick? I spoke with him at length yesterday in his office – should I
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quarantine?"
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"No, the only thing of Paul's that was contagious was his smile." The
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man grimaced again. "Come with me, I'll show you the kitchen."
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Olive, lead by the new supervisor, followed into the dim kitchen, lit
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by a single red-tinted bulb. Another kid, apparently lacking more sleep than
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the first, stood at a tall stainless steel table on which four machines sat. On
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the far right was the paper dispenser; it dispensed paper wrappers for the
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burgers, operated by button press. The bun dispenser, operated by lever,
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deposited refined-grain sesame seed buns of 12 centimeter diameter, the bottom
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landing on one corner of the paper and the top landing on another. The patty
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dispenser, operated by plunging lever, was a conveyor belt that lead to the
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kitchen from nowhere immediately discernible to Olive. On metal wires it would
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push patties, two at a time, to the table. The final machine dispensed an
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orange mixture (that smelled like cheese and ketchup) and was operated by flip
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lever – flipped one way, it dispensed enough syrup for one burger, flipped the
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other way, it dispensed enough for another. Shik-shik, puk-puk, hrnnnnn, click.
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The kid at the table made two burgers at a time before wrapping them and
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sending them out.
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Next to the table, on the red tiled floor, was a bucket of waste. Olive
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gestured to it. "Do you do composting?"
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"Oh, no, of course not. We need to count out waste. How many burgers
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tossed, how many buns tossed, et cetera. We've had issues with employees
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stealing product."
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"Oh." Olive stared in the bucket. It held a soup of cheese/ketchup,
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grease, mushed bread, and dissolving wrappers. "You count out everything in
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there?"
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"Yup, that's not exactly my favorite part of this job." The supervisor
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turned to the table kid. "Daniel, this is Olive."
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"Hi Olive." Daniel turned back to his hell.
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The supervisor turned back to Olive. "You'll be replacing Daniel. Watch
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how he works so you know what you'll be doing."
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Olive kept staring in the bucket. "Do you have any sort of official
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procedure sheets?"
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"Yes, but you aren't allowed to see them."
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Olivia's eyes moved from the bucket to the conveyor. "Oh."
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That was OK. Here's how I'd write it now:
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Orientation
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Olive arrived the next day at 900 on two hours'notice. She entered the
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restaurant via two sets of glass double doors and walked to the counter.
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Holding the register was a teenager who looked like he hadn't slept in weeks.
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Olive read his nametag. Sam.
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"Hi Sam, I'm Olive, I'm here for my first day of work here."
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"Hi Olive, I'll go get the manager." He disappeared into the back of
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the restaurant, which Olive noticed was lit dimly if at all, and returned with
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a man in a black uniform. The man grimaced in an attempt to smile. "Hi Olive.
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Usually Paul, the manager with whom you spoke yesterday, would be here, but
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he's out sick."
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"Oh. Should I be here then? The interview was in an enclosed space and
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for a little while." Sam brought out the bag for an order as they talked. He
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pulled a receipt off a clip hanging from one of the shelves behind him, strafed
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over to the soda fountain, and started pouring drinks. A set of hands pushed a
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burger onto the other shelf and then receded back into the darkness.
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"No, it's not contagious - fortunately. Plus the restuarant is very
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well ventilated. The only thing of Paul's that was contagious was his smile."
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The man grimaced again. Olive noticed the use of past tense. "Come with me,
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I'll show you the kitchen."
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Olive, lead by the supervision, stepped behind the counter, between the
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two stainless steel shelves, carefully through a brief corridor between shelves
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holding room-temperature ingredients, and followed around the end of the shelf
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on the right to the small kitchen which she noticed was lit by a single red
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incandescent bulb. Another teenager stood at a waist-level stainless steel
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table onto which four machines dispensed paper wrappers, sesame-seed buns, beef
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patties, and some sort of sauce. Four tubes ran to the table; two from the
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floor and one each from the ceiling and a refrigerator-sized machine behind the
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kid that had a large steel tube chimney vent also routed towards, eventually,
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the sky. The kid at the table made a sandwich in a rhythmic beat.
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Shik-shik. The paper dispenser was a box sort of shaped like a printer
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with a large black button that used the mechanical force of the button press to
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separate and spit out the burger wrapper. The box extended past the edge of the
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table and a large stainless steel tube extended from its bottom through the
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floor. The papers had red splotches on them, like there was an accident in
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printing.
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Puk-puk. The bun dispenser was a tube that ran down from the ceiling
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towards the table with a lever on the front. The lever rotated a gear inside
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the tube so it could dispense a single twelve-centimeter sesame seed bun,
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fluffy enough to not be damaged upon hitting the bun wrapper.
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Hrnnnnn. The patty dispenser, operated by foot pedal, was a conveyer
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belt within a thick tube that carried a freshly-broiled hamburger patty; the
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Durmer Burger signature patty, in fact. It came pre-seasoned.
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Click. The sauce dispenser resembled a sink faucet, with a tube a
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couple centimeters in diameter running from a valve in the floor under the
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table to the hook-shaped dispenser section. On the front it had a flip lever -
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flipped one way, it dispensed enough syrup for one burger, flipped the other
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way, it dispensed enough for another. The large handle made a gentle but
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audible click as it toggled. The signature Durmer Burger sauce was orange and
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smelled to Olive like a mix of cheese and ketchup but she figured it would be
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naive of her to assume that was all it was.
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Shik-shik. Puk-puk. Hrnnnnn. Click. Then he wrapped them and pushed
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them through the shelf into the light behind it.
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of various decomposing ingredients. Olive pointed at it and turned to the
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manager. "Do you do composting?"
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"Oh, no, not here." He chuckled, which came out as a low growl. "We
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count out waste to make sure the inventory sums out. A couple years ago we had
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some problems with an employee stealing a ton of stuff from here so it's just
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in case it happens again. Probably not really necessary but it's what the
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"Oh." Olive stared in the bucket. It held a soup of sauce, grease,
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the remnants of some buns, and slowly-dissolving wrappers. "You count out
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everything in there?"
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"Yeah. Not exactly sunshine and roses." The supervisor spoke a little
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louder. "Daniel."
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The table teen, presumably Daniel, looked up from making sandwiches.
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"This is Olive."
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Daniel looked towards Olive's knees. "Hi Olive." He turned back to his
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The manager turned back to Olive. "You'll be replacing Daniel. Watch
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how he works so you know what you'll be doing."
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Olive kept staring in the bucket. "Do you have any sort of procedure
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"Probably. I've only seen glimpses. They keep it under wraps. This is
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