I started this Series a few years ago on an old Blog. I’m going to move all entries into this Blog as a weekly entry, and then pick it back up as an ongoing series after abandoning it for such a long time.
I hope you enjoy it, and as always I welcome any and all conversation in the Comments Section!
– FRI. FEB 22, 2013 –
Today was a usual day at work—
(I will refrain from using the real names of people or places, for whatever reason you care to believe)
— at the good ol’ [Supply Warehouse].
I went into the back to get an office chair for a customer—
(The back is open on three sides, bordered by a fence instead of walls, so it tends to be really damn cold in the mornings, due to SoCal’s recent record low winter)
— and turned to the hallway where we keep the boxes of chairs.
Where there was once a storeroom hallway, was now an infinitely long corridor of a rapidly developed Cardboard Jungle!
I was taken by extreme surprise, quite understandably.
So, never one to shirk my duties and responsibilities, I bravely pressed on.
The razor sharp edges of the cardboard foliage threatened my very being, but I marched ahead, blazing a trail like Indiana Jones through a thick, harsh, wild jungle.
I managed to make it clear through to the end of the impossibly long trek, heaved the chair up onto my shoulder, and strode triumphantly back through the now clear pathway I had made.
I was victorious, and had prevailed completely unscathed by the unforgiving Paper Wilderness. The trees may have been long dead, but they had achieved a strong, defiant afterlife that is not to be taken lightly…
… though the way back did seem much shorter — Like, only about ten yards or so…