On my lunch hour I went for a cigarette.
I grabbed a burger on the way out so I could have some food too.
My boss looked at me with a shit eating grin.
What is a shit eating grin?
I sat out the back on the stairs smoking, eating and reading.
The new girl Jess came out and sat beside me.
She had short hair, was kind of cute and half korean.
"You're getting fired today" were the first words she said to me
"I know"
"How will you live?"
"In a box behind this place."
"That sucks"
"I'm going to piss in the fryer before I leave"
Jess got up and searched her pockets.
I draw out my cigarettes and offer her one.
She takes it and sits back down again.
I look at the car parked across from us.
"That's his car" Jess tells me, referring to the BMW.
I contemplate getting up and keying it, but I don't.
"I know. He gave me a lift home last Christmas, I vomited in the back seat." I tell her this.
"Oh?"
"You stole my job."
She was taken aback by this comment.
"He only hired you so he could have another slave to replace me"
She laughed and hit me on the arm.
"You're a fucking moron if you think that" she said.
"I'm a fucking moron."
She got up and went back inside.
I relit a cigarette and went back to my reading.
I'm getting fired today.
The burger was cold by the time I started eating it.
After my break I go back in and finish my shift.
I wasn't fired today.
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