 #1 (permalink) Fri Jul 24, 2009 19:15 pm The Workplace. |
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Sandra backed her car carefully into her reserved space outside of the office.
To the side of the same building was a bicycle shed, and it was here that Mike was chaining his bicycle to the rail before starting his days work in the basement. He was a maintenance worker, and his job was to ensure that everything in the huge complex worked in the manner for which it was designed.
As Sandra walked into the main building she saw Mike there and gave him a discreet wave. He was such a nice boy, and she thought that if only he had a better position within the company, that perhaps they would have a better chance of seeing each other more regularly.
"She's beautiful," said Mike to himself.
I wish there was some way that we could get to see each other more often, he thought to himself.
Every day it was the same old routine. She waved, he smiled in return, and they both went their seperate ways. She to the top, and he to the bottom.
Would it always be so, he mused.
Sandra bade the rest of the office staff "Good morning", and retired to her own office where she busied herself sorting the days mail in preparation of the Directors arrival.
He was a very punctual man and he was a hard task-master for all who worked for him.
Mike's boss was a friendly guy and everyone loved working for him. There were no set rules when working in the Maintenance department. Each man was conversant with the workings of every piece of plant in the huge building and everything hummed with efficiency.
Mike had first met Sandra that day the air-conditioning had malfunctioned. She had frantically phoned down to say that the room was very warm, and the Director was about to arrive in twenty minutes. Mike had raced to the rescue and he had the air-conditioning up and running in moments.
That lunchtime Mike was sitting on the back lawn having his lunch when Sandra approached him.
"You certainly saved the day in getting the room cooled down before the boss arrived," she told him.
Mike smiled sheepishly and said that that's what he was there for.
"Yes, but he would have been in a bad mood all morning if you hadn't acted so quickly," she replied.
He had no answer to that, so again he just smiled, but inside he was burning to keep the conversation going., but damn it, he could think of nothing sensible to say.
Thinking that he was not really interested in her Sandra said goodbye and walked back into the office block.
No good getting involved with him, she thought. He hasn't the intelligence to hold a reasonable conversation. But even so, she couldn't get him out of her mind.
Every day they met on entering the office, and every evening they waved goodbye on leaving.
And so it continued for many months, until tiring of his never making an approach on her, Sandra left the company, and started a new job where she quickly found romance with the Assistant Manager of a big company.
They married and lived not so happily ever after, and Mike just kept on tending the machinery in his office block, and wondered every day why he hadn't asked her for a date.
She could only have said yes or no!
Kitos.
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