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vastiitas · 8 months ago

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the longest job cole has ever had in his modern verse is with ernesto's, a local mechanic shop that serviced the town's crew of bikers with the owner being a member himself. it lasted about 3 years, with the crew even helping cole cobble together his first bike. kid sleeps at the mechanic's shop most of the time; ernesto finds him sleeping in a corner three weeks in and gives him keys to the back office that has a shoddy spring bed and access to a dingey bathroom with a shower.

the shortest job he's ever had lasted about 1 week where he ended up throwing hands at a customer for groping his coworker in some shit, middle-of-nowhere diner.

#hc: youth #hc: modern #hc: head up in the clouds;;#rando snippet but :shrug: it's been sitting in my drafts for 50 yrs n i need it to LEAVE- lKJDFs #he lied abt his age at the diner n the owners knew he was lyin but they didnt care #it was a janitorial position so he wasn't really seen arnd by regular customers #still made good temporary friends w the co-workers there; smoke breaks in the back and sneaking out unfinished food into the stomach #kid also did a lot of contractional/seasonal jobs on ranches whenever he happened across them; they were the easiest to get his foot #in the door with - between having the experience/growing up with it and knowing how to say the right words #and God there is something abt how he got slick with his words -- some braided manifestation between his mother's #teachings on courtesy n etiquette n his father's directed charm; these lingering leftovers of people who are no longer here #still haunting this dispossessed child in the way only parents can

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