Looking Out My Office Window

As I sit in this office, waiting for the next customer to come through the door, to give me a hard time, or present me with an unchallenging problem, I look out the window behind me. The cars streak by on the street, non obeying the posted 25 mph speed limit. I watch the fat Americans get fatter at the drive thru at the McDonald's restaurant across the street. Oh how we have all been so suckered by this horrible company, feeding this nation with its evil substances that barely pass for food yet taste so good when you are so hungry and need a quick lunch, or a late night snack.

As I sit in this office, wasting away in a job that I cannot stand, that I cannot put up with for too much longer, I watch the trees, bare, naked, stripped of their color and life by the cold barren winter. I watch as the cold wind blows the trees, and the signs, and the power lines, and the streetlights as they hang from wires over the intersection. I watch, as the flags in front of the McDonald's fly, high and proud, flapping in the breeze, so proud to stand tall outside this factory of fat. I sit and look at the small piles of snow, plowed into corners in the parking lot. How I wished those piles were larger, large enough to shut down the system, close the office, keep us locked indoors with the ones we love, forcing us to spend time together when so much time is spent apart in this modern age of work, running around, errands and 9 to 5's that last way longer than eight hours.

As I sit in this office, watching the cold winds blow a bag about in the air, waiting patiently, thinking about life, my life, how I wanted out of this life of suit and tedium. How I wished the wheels of the government would turn faster and I could take that firefighter test and pass it and go to training and leave behind these days of sitting behind a desk answering phones, placating customers and kissing rear ends to get more business. Pretending to like somebody, pretending to show interest in people who repulse you, and the fake friendships that go hand in hand with the corporate world, the business world are what I most hate. The backstabbing, the disloyalty, the gossip. They all make me sick to my stomach.