No more Time
It was inconceivable how all that hard work went out the window in mere seconds, even after it was hour’s worth of work that had been put into it. Today was going to be the day, it was going to be the day I got my promotion and could finally afford a new apartment. Instead, I lost everything in a moments notice...all because of him.
Today started like any other day, I woke up and got ready for work. On my way out the door though, things became so messed up. My keys fell out of my hand and in a puddle, then my coffee spilled in my car. I was thankful all the necessary paper for the project was in my trunk. When I pulled into work, a red Mercedes had taken my parking spot. Under normal circumstances I wouldn't have cared and simply found another, however, all the spots were taken on this floor. And the next, and the next, and the next. Twenty minutes of searching brought me to the parking on the roof, where I was then able to pull the important documents from the trunk before I began my descent down four flights of stairs. Halfway down, I tripped and lost my footing, paper spilling out of the box and onto the pavement. I had already wasted all the extra time I allotted for this morning, and now I had to rush to pick up the papers. So I rushed and in my rush I missed documents I needed. When I made it to the meeting room, started to layout my work I found to my horror they were missing. Rushing back to look for them would waste more time that I didn't have. In my rush to make it to the copy room, I ran out the door and straight into my boss...who didn't look pleased at all.
"Ms. Morris, if it were any other day I would have fired you on the spot for your brash behavior, but as it is you are necessary for this meeting and I cannot dally with such an event. Is there a reason behind this?" My boss asked as he towered over my fallen form. I could do nothing, but flap my mouth open and closed like a fish out of water when HE showed up.
"Ms. Morris! There you are! I have some papers you left outside. I couldn't get them all because some blew away, but I got what I could for you." He said with a sickening smile towards me. Kneeling on the floor I could only watch as my boss looked from him to me and walked past me into the room. I knew right then, time had run out for me.
"Oh, I'm so sorry Ms. Morris. If I had known it was Mr. Benning I wouldn't have said anything." I nodded my head as I picked myself up, but I couldn't look up. I could feel the tears burning behind my eyes and the taste of disgrace in my mouth. "I'm also sorry about your parking spot. I had forgotten today was the meeting and Ms. Hensy wanted me in early, I just parked randomly." Slowly, I looked up at the man who just ruined my life. He was the man who parked in my spot and made me park FOUR floors higher for parking.
(Unedited-10:37 am October 15, 2011)
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