Another day at the job.

This isn't true. I'm not sure if its funny or scary.

I originally got the job on a dare. When many would assume that a dare is funny this isn’t true to me. For me dares consist of productive and common feats. Last month my friends dared me to get a job at the movie theater.

            Now most people would agree that a job at the movie theater isn’t the end of the world. The benefits include free movies, the constant smell of buttered popcorn in the air, and watching little children try to wrestle a claw machine for a prize they never won.    

            Nevertheless you go into my high school and say that you work at ‘Ben’s Movie Theater’ and you’ll be called a variety of vulgar and un-tastefull names. No one’s sure why the slander started (it could be because we’re located in a high drug trafficking area).

In the darkness of the movie theater I have seen it all. I’ve seen people pull enough food from their purses for a feast. I’ve seen people hold up cameras trying to pirate them. By far the worst is when the girls lift up their shirt just enough for her man to grab what was under there.

            Most of my shifts are on the weekend from 5 p.m. to midnight; its not as if I have a life. That would be an absurd assumption.

            The friend that dared me to take up the job chicken out and never took it. On Friday nights when he wants to take out his girlfriend he is sure to go to the better, but more expensive, theater across town.

            So I spend every Friday night cleaning drug needles out of the toilet, sweeping the crack off the floor before the cops show up and scrapping gum off of the seats.

            When I was about to leave last Saturday there was a dead body shoved up into the vending machine. I didn’t linger around too long because I didn’t want to be next.

            It’s just another day at the job.

Author's Note

Fifth
Apr 7, 2012

A Comedy
Another day at the job.

good try!
Dec 6, 2011

SHORT STORY CONTEST :)!
Another day at the job.

Reviews

[oops sorry (not really)]

um..everyone seems to think this is funny but i was kind of bored idk y it just didn't seem that hilarious xD but u know everyone is different with different opinions :D and if others like it keep it up!

[Knuckles]

This is really quite an evocative short story. Thank you

[Safe&sound<3 ♫]

i think its funny, but thats just me. i liked it(:

[StarNinja]

How would you fit a body... nevermind. That's a long dark road that I shouldn't embark on, lest the last ribbons of my sanity slip away.
That was a nice little story. Short, funny, realistic? No, um... gritty. Yeah that's it. Keep up the good work.

[Elizabeth]

hahaha. "So I spend every Friday night cleaning drug needles out of the toilet, sweeping the crack off the floor before the cops show up and scrapping gum off of the seats. " PRICELESS. And the last line is just the cherry on top. This would be a great prologue introducing a character and a place I'd love to read more about.

[Mary Evans]

I find your style interesting. Grammar's good too. The story i find a bit hard core, which isn't bad at all. I do think it would sound much better if you extend it into a full short story.

[Chris38]

This was a great story. Love the black humour at the end. You have a great talent

[atom]

Great short story. Great use of irony, I always find it interesting when the surreal becomes the real in a story.

[Short.Nerd]

Haha this was great!!!:) I thought our movie theater was bad, but i think you won! Nice job

[Magdelena]

Oh my!!!! I found this highly entertaining. You do have a way with a story that's for sure. Yes i found myself chuckling a time or two and even sending forth a gasp, but let me tell you, this is good! Maybe you can make a series of them. Like one of every week on the Fridays?

Good job!
Mags xx