Coworker spotlight
August 20, 2011
Jane doesn’t miss a thing. She is from East Africa and her family had to flee from conflict and long story short, ended up in America. She works for us at the market and is wonderful. We’ve become fast friends. It helps that we are a part of the same church, like to laugh, and I am full of questions to which Jane has all the answers. Today I had to leave the market a little early and Jane and I were sad to part sooner than usual. We’ve begun carpooling and have got closing down to a science. We like our routine and it is sad when we have to “Make it work.”
So that’s all the nice, we’re friends stuff. The other stuff is that Jane thinks I am crazy. It may be because I tell her she wins employee of the day every day. Or it maybe because one day I told her that I needed a bunk-bed under the counter and demonstrated how nice it would be to nap under there. It think what really confirmed it for her was the time she caught me dancing in the market while I was drinking milk. All I can say in my defense was that I was happy, I liked the song and the milk was delicious, so why not dance? Jane walked in and burst out laughing, “You are dancing and drinking milk!? You crazy!”
So today began our weekend. We cheered up when we realized we would see each other at church on Sunday. I taught her how to hand hug, which she thought was silly and I laughed as I walked to my car. How fun work is! I know it is because of the people. We have a little too much fun “working.” The atmosphere there is just so fun and exciting, my kind of exciting.
