flashback

Co-worker Flashback
circa 1998

I use to work with this girl "Melissa"
years back..

She made me laugh -

Melissa would to drive to work...
then a few hours later she would leave
drive her car back to her apartment so her husband could take it
then she'd get on a bus and come back to work..
I never understood why she just didnt take the bus to begin with

Things Melissa told me:

• Her husband, O'bul (He was from pakistan)
would spit in paper towels and leave them all over the house..
this made Melissa angry.

• She would be late for work everyday - Her reason:
She had to make tea for O'bul and she had to wait for him to
finish it before she could leave the house or he would get mad.

• Her grandmother would get random items
in the house like a stapler or whatever was lying around
and she would put them in cereal boxes
and give it as a gift for Birthdays or Christmas or for no reason

AND her grandmother would throw herself down the stairs
from time to time just to get attention.

• She was ashamed that she knew all the words to "Livin La Vida Loca".



One day Melisa went to lunch
and never came back to work

but before she left
she made me this picture
and I'll always treasure it - I keep it in my desk at work


















I miss her - she made me laugh


the end



*this has been another fascinating post from casual slack