I was listening to the rain and thunder last night while trying to read ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ . For those of you in the Glasgow area wondering where this freak weather occurred, it was here. And how delightful it was too. Especially after the stressful day that I had at work… basically being told that they want me to jump rather be pushed out of the door due to my “serial underperformance.” It’s not that I’m a bad guy, of course… it’s just that I don’t do the things that they want me to do. Such as abandon my morals and principles by being a cold, ruthless, pushy, conniving and sneaky bank bastard. No thanks, I like to live by my rules.
So what they want me to do, is to give a date of my future notice, and they won’t hassle me anymore. They spoke about how much “happiness” the other people had once they left the office. Yes, because they paid those people off. Now they want to make us redundant too… but not actually give us any redundancy money. Cunts.
You’d think that working in a financial institution that they’d know fine well that “happiness” doesn’t pay the bills.
“I’d like to make a payment to my credit card please.”
“Certainly, would that be cash or cheque?”
“Actually, I drew a smiley face on a colourful post-it note… I assume that will be sufficient for you.”
Yeah, good luck getting that one past the counter monkey.
After passing out around 1.30 last night… I had a dream.
I dreamt that I was at my usual underground station at Kelvin Hall… and it was busier than usual. When the train pulled into the station, the other commuters started squeezing against me and I was forced into the carriage… where I felt that my wallet was being forced out and it dropped behind me. Despite my protests, I was unable to get back off the train. “I had £70 in that wallet!” £50 of regular cash and my emergency £20. [I always like to keep an emergency £20. In case I need it for dire situations… like… buying a final round of drinks. Ahaha.]
Not exactly a complicated Subway
I saw a girl pick it up and we made eye-contact as the train was pulling out and I gave her a thumbs-up in the hope that she’ll know it was me and will want to do the right thing and give me it back.
My plan was that I would get off at my usual stop at St Enoch… and wait for her there to be reunited with my wallet, bank cards and my Japanese language card. Then a thought occurred… ‘what if she gets off at Buchanan Street? A lot of people get off there… then we’d miss each other.’ So then I decided to get off there.
Then I realised that there’s nothing stopping her from getting off at any of the other stations before then! She doesn’t need to get off at Buchanan Street! So before the doors closed, I managed to get my way through to Kelvinbridge… where I waited on the next train.
I got on the last carriage, it was a lot more quieter and sure enough, there she was. She gave me the wallet back and I sat inbetween her and her friend. Foppishly explaining my crazy thoughts about what station she was going to get off at. She nodded and said that I was correct in that thinking as she was getting off at St George’s Cross. Rather than give her a cash reward for her honesty, I asked if I could buy her a “beverage of some description” and she smiled sweetly.
I woke up at 5.30 after this dream. And since I was wide awake, I decided to analyse it.
I get the subway to go to my awful job… and I was being forced onto a carriage. Much like they want to force me to submit my resignation. This, of course, has certain financial implications attached to it which is where the dropping of the wallet comes into play. No job means no money, so it’s only naturally to be worried about that.
However, after fighting my way through some crazy thoughts, coming up with a rational plan with justification for my actions and breaking from the awful carriage, I find myself in a better one… reunited with my money and having a pleasant experience.
What I find that this dream is telling me is that… everything will be fine. I might be on that difficult carriage for a little bit… but I’ll be able to get through it… my money worries will be unfounded… I’ll be happier and free from the madding crowd.
~Stripes
