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A JESTER IN THE COURT OF FOOD
by Greg McKenna

1

"Paul, yo man, wake up. C'mon dude, rise." You wake up with a start. It's your friend Keith. You look at him angrily and ask him what the hell he's doing in your room. "Don't be a deusche Paul," he sighs, "you fell asleep at IKEA again. C'mon get up, my boss is gonna fire me, and so is YOURS unless you get your ass over to the food court in like two seconds."

You look around and see that he's right. You're not in your room but in an IKEA bedroom display.

You were born with narcolepsy and a severe sleepwalking habit--your weed habit came a little later, but all three work against you in securing a foreign sleeping place almost every night. You throw the cottony Swedish sheets off you and fling yourself out of bed, almost knocking over a cardboard entertainment center. "Later dude, thanks," you yell over your shoulder, "I'll see ya at break and we'll burn one!"

You hightail it through the mall, thanking God you at least didn't take off your urine soaked uniform from last night. Two minutes later you're behind the counter of the KFC in the FoodCourt. "Sweet!" you say to yourself and give yourself a mental high-five. The boss isn't here yet.

Just then you notice that Lenny, your 43 year old retarded co-worker--bless his heart--left the storage room open again.


If you slip behind the boxes of hotsauce for a quick nap, go to page 2

if you get to work refilling the napkin dispensers, go to page 3