Part Two: Putty In Their Hands
My first
job ever had me working at a tiny meat shop in a plaza that featured a
7/11 and a Thiara Market. The owner was a man half my size and I was
only 14. I learned a lot from the people I worked with. My foul language
at this point was pretty limited and extremely unoriginal but I was
willing to work on it. I knew swearing was for me the minute my parents
told me it was wrong and that I shouldn't do it. When I showed up for my
first shift and met the man I'd call boss, I didn't know that I was
about to meet the man who would open my ears to a whole new world of
disrespectful language never to be used in front of my parents. What
some would call verbal abuse I called language arts. I learned that
taking a common swear word and joining it with everyday words or objects
gave them new life.
He was particularly good at
put-downs. There was one individual at the workplace who essentially
acted as a pin cushion...for samurai swords and battle axes being thrown
at him by our boss. Everyday this kid would come in to work and
everyday he would spend the whole shift getting dumped on. He was the
longest standing employee aside from the owner, and that meant
something. I learned from this young man that sometimes it's acceptable
to be somebody elses toilet, as long as that person pays you better than
everyone else and gives you better hours. Noted.
When my loudmouth boss wasn't cussing out his beloved employees or out buying discounted meat from local grocery stores and selling it as luxury meat at his shop, he was a very friendly and extremely helpful person. He would help load heavy products into the cars of customers and even offer their children lollipops. I was astonished when I first saw him acting this way. It was such a drastic change in such little time, but how? Two-facing. A life changing ability and one that I've since realized everyone possesses. Again this man was showing me what it meant to be a part of the "real world". It meant being one thing to some people and another thing to others. Yes, sometimes it takes being who they need you to be in order to be who you want to be. So for the lesson in Language Arts and Deception 101, I sincerely thank the boys down at the butcher shop.
I was putty in their hands and all they did was roll me into a ball and whip me at the wall to see if I would stick... I didn't. I very quickly peeled back and fell to the floor. Next job please!
For a personal online Language Arts Lesson watch this video:
When my loudmouth boss wasn't cussing out his beloved employees or out buying discounted meat from local grocery stores and selling it as luxury meat at his shop, he was a very friendly and extremely helpful person. He would help load heavy products into the cars of customers and even offer their children lollipops. I was astonished when I first saw him acting this way. It was such a drastic change in such little time, but how? Two-facing. A life changing ability and one that I've since realized everyone possesses. Again this man was showing me what it meant to be a part of the "real world". It meant being one thing to some people and another thing to others. Yes, sometimes it takes being who they need you to be in order to be who you want to be. So for the lesson in Language Arts and Deception 101, I sincerely thank the boys down at the butcher shop.
I was putty in their hands and all they did was roll me into a ball and whip me at the wall to see if I would stick... I didn't. I very quickly peeled back and fell to the floor. Next job please!
For a personal online Language Arts Lesson watch this video:
