The job was as a crew member with the most famous fast food store.
I was told to meet the truck, unpack it
And load the cool room and freezer with every goddamned box in the universe.
I was a school kid, frightened by everything
and the managers were either 20-year-old stoners
or 20-year-old assholes.
I began to load the boxes; it was easy at first, they went on the shelves
then the shelves filled
and I started to load them on the floor,
piling them on top of each other like bricks.
But they weren’t bricks and as they became taller than me
The corner of some low down box would crumble, then they’d fall.
I remember standing in that cold room, half frozen, laughing at the boxes of
French fries and hamburgers collapsing.
I watched my white breath disappear into the spinning fans
The noise killing me.
Then something snapped within me, and I began to push the boxes into each other, forcing them onto each other, throwing them in
The place piled up with boxes in no order,
Crushed
Some split
open with the inside bags spilling out.
I didn’t care.
Someone had ordered too much
I went out and collected the trolley, to bring in the last boxes.
The trolley caught my corduroy jacket and tore it.
I had bought that jacket in California.
When I was finished, the cool room looked like a massacre, and I could hardly close the door.
The next day I came back to work
This nice guy named Duc, one of my best friends
Told me the stoner assistant manager we all liked had been yelled at
By the asshole boss and I felt bad.
I hated the place and I wanted to be fired
But I also felt bad.
I spent two hours fixing that cool room up.
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