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“Is that supposed to look like
that?” The blonde cashier girl asked. The freezer at the back of the Burger
Land was not a popular place to converse or hang out (or even hide). Hence
small issues inside it tended to be overlooked. In this case, a “thing” of unknown
origin was currently growing from inside a bag of frozen french fries.
“No, no, it is not,” the redhead
girl who worked fries shook her head while eying the mystery thing
suspiciously. Whatever it was, it certainly wasn’t potato based, but it was
alive. Or at least, it twitched and wriggled enough to suggest so.
“Dude, we’re behind on fries, and we
need-” The messy-haired cashier stepped in behind them. “Woah, what’s that
gnarly-looking thing?”
“I don’t know, and I don’t want to
know,” the redhead stated. “Just grab a couple brooms, and we’ll kill it or at
least shove it out the backdoor.”
“Don’t kill the poor little thing,”
the blonde whimpered, “it might be friendly.”
“I dunno doesn’t look very
friendly,” the dude shrugged. “It do anything cool yet?”
“No, it’s just sat there twitching,”
the redhead answered while reaching for the broom.
“Well, there was the thing it did to
the rat,” the blonde muttered.
“What rat?” The redhead froze.
“Well, I didn’t see it at first. I
saw a rat,” the blonde explained, “then the rat skittered up to the french fry
bag, and the thingy in there…ate it, I guess?”
“And you didn’t think to tell us
this because?” The redhead felt sick to her stomach, now noticing a little
rat-shaped lump sinking into the “thing.”
“Because it was really gross, and I
didn’t want to talk about it,” the blonde admitted.
“Okay, forget the brooms. I’m
calling animal control,” the redhead declared.
“You sure that’s an animal?” The
dude pointed out.
“No clue, but I’m not going in
there,” the redhead asserted.
“What are you going to tell the
manager? We need those fries,” the blonde reminded her.
“If we need them so badly, he can
lose a hand getting them himself,” the redhead marched back to her station. The
blonde girl and dude looked at her, then at each other, and then at the thing,
which continued to wriggle and writhe.
“Dibs on not telling the manager,”
the dude proclaimed as he snatched a lone chicken nugget from a nearby table
and tossed it at the thing. The mystery entity grabbed the nugget out of thin
air with a set of tentacles that sprouted from its amorphous form before
pulling it inside itself. “Righteous,” the dude commented.
“Oh, poo,” the blonde sighed and
walked to the manager’s office. Needless to say, it was a fairly odd day at
work, and that was before the strange men in suits showed up.
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Workplace cleaning and sanitation is very important, you never know what nasty things might take root when you neglect such basic duties.
Until next time, Read, Comment and Enjoy.