I split the songs up on the Lover album as well so we can delve into each one a bit more.
False God
We were crazy to think/Crazy to think that this could work/Remember how I said I’d die for you?/We were stupid to jump/In the ocean separating us/Remember how I’d fly to you?/…They all warned us about times like this/They say the road gets hard and you get lost when you’re led by blind faith…/…But we might just get away with it/Religion’s in your lips/Even if it’s a false god/We’d still worship/We might just get away with it/The altar is my hips/Even if it’s a false god/We’d still worship this love…/…I know heaven’s a thing/I go there when you touch me/Honey hell is when I fight with you/But we can patch it up good/Make confessions and we’re begging for forgiveness/Got the wine for you/And you can’t talk to me when I’m like this/Daring you to leave me just so I can try and scare you
Walkin’ through a crowd, the village is aglow/Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats under coats/Everybody here wanted somethin’ more/Searchin’ for a sound we hadn’t heard before…/…When we first dropped our bags on apartment floors/Took our broken hearts, put them in a drawer/Everybody here was someone else before/And you can want who you want/Boys and boys and girls and girls…/…Like any great love, it keeps you guessing/Like any real love, it’s ever-changing/Like any true love, it drives you crazy/But you know you wouldn’t change anything, anything, anything
Blank Space
Magic, madness, heaven, sin…/…You look like my next mistake/Love’s a game, wanna play?” Ay…/…New money, suit and tie…/…Ain’t it funny? Rumors fly/And I know you heard about me/So hey, let’s be friends/I’m dying to see how this one ends…/…I can make the bad guys good for a weekend…/…You can tell me when it’s over, mm…/…Got a long list of ex-lovers…/…And you love the game/’Cause we’re young, and we’re reckless/We’ll take this way too far/It’ll leave you breathless, mm/Or with a nasty scar…/…But I’ve got a blank space, baby/And I’ll write your name…/…Stolen kisses, pretty lies/You’re the King, baby, I’m your Queen/Find out what you want/Be that girl for a month/Wait, the worst is yet to come, oh, no/Screaming, crying, perfect storms/I can make all the tables turn…/…Don’t say I didn’t, say I didn’t warn ya/THEY’LL tell you I’m insane (I’m insane)/’Cause YOU know I love the players…
Style
Midnight/You come and pick me up, no headlights…/…Could end in burning flames or paradise…/…And I should just tell you to leave ’cause I/Know exactly where it leads…/…And I got that good girl faith and a tight little skirt/And when we go crashing down, we come back every time…/…Oh, you got that James Dean daydream look in your eye/And I got that red lip classic thing that you like
Out of the Woods
Then discovered…/…The rest of the world was black and white/But we were in screaming color…/…Are we out of the woods?/Are we in the clear yet?…/…The night we couldn’t quite forget/When we decided, we decided/To move the furniture so we could dance/Baby, like we stood a chance/Two paper airplanes flying, flying, flying…/…Remember when we couldn’t take the heat?/I walked out, I said “I’m setting you free”/But the monsters turned out to be just trees/When the sun came up you were looking at me
All You Had to Do Was Stay
People like you always want back the love they gave away/And people like me wanna believe you when you say you’ve changed/The more I think about it now, the less I know…/…Then why’d you have to go and lock me out when I let you in?
Shake It Off
I go on too many dates [chuckle]/But I can’t make ’em stay/At least that’s what people say, mmm-mmm…/…And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate…/…I shake it off, I shake it off…/…I never miss a beat/I’m lightning on my feet/And that’s what they don’t see…/…I’m dancing on my own (dancing on my own)/I make the moves up as I go (moves up as I go)
More examples:
These had too many pics to post a concise list on this post, but check out the websites. It shows a lot of relationships, marriages, babies, cheating, fights, etc, etc… are orchestrated to generate buzz and ultimately sell a product:
You think I’m gonna hate you now/’Cause you still don’t know what I never said…/…I wish you knew that/I’d never forget you as long as I’d live…/…We’re a crooked love/In a straight line down/Makes you wanna run and hide/Then it makes you turn right back around…/…And remember what we were fighting for…/…This mad, mad love makes you come rushing
Exp 2:
Bad Blood
You know it used to be mad love…/…Now we got problems/And I don’t think we can solve ’em/You made a really deep cut…/…I was thinking that you could be trusted/Did you have to ruin/What was shining? Now it’s all rusted/Did you have to hit me/Where I’m weak? Baby, I couldn’t breathe/And rub it in so deep/Salt in the wound like you’re laughing right at me…/…Did you think we’d be fine?/Still got scars on my back from your knife/So don’t think it’s in the past/These kind of wounds they last and they last/Now did you think it all through?/All these things will catch up to you…/…If you live like that, you live with ghosts (ghosts, ghosts)/Band-aids don’t fix bullet holes (hey!)/You say sorry just for show …/…Hm, if you love like that, blood runs cold/’Cause baby, now we got bad blood
Wildest Dreams
…”Let’s get out of this town/Drive out of the city, away from the crowds“/I thought Heaven can’t help me now/Nothing lasts forever/But this is gonna take me down…/…I said, “No one has to know what we do”/His hands are in my hair, his clothes are in my room…/…You’ll see me in hindsight/Tangled up with you all night/Burning it down/Someday when you leave me/I bet these memories/Follow you around…/…Say you’ll see me again/Even if it’s just (pretend, just pretend) in your wildest dreams/In your wildest dreams/Even if it’s just stayed in your wildest dreams
How You Get the Girl
Stand there like a ghost/Shaking come the rain, rain/She’ll open up the door/And say, are you insane…/…And you were too afraid to tell her what you want, want…/…And then you say/I want you for worse or for better…/…Tell her how you must’ve lost your mind/When you left her all alone and never told her why, why/And that’s how it works/That’s how you lost the girl…/…Broke your heart, I’ll put it back together…/…And you could know, oh/That I don’t want you to go
This Love
High tide came and brought you in…/…Skies grew darker/Currents swept you out again…/…In silent screams/In wildest dreams/I never dreamed of this/This love is good/This love is bad…/…In losing grip/On sinking ships…/…This love left a permanent mark/This love is glowing in the dark…/…I watched you leave/Your smile, my ghost/I fell to my knees/When you’re young, you just run/But you come back to what you need
I Know Places
It’s a scene, and we’re out here in plain sight/I can hear them whisper as we pass by/It’s a bad sign, bad sign/Something happens when everybody finds out/See the vultures circling, dark clouds/Love’s a fragile little flame, it could burn out…/…’Cause they got the cages, they got the boxes/And guns/They are the hunters, we are the foxes/And we run/Baby, I know places we won’t be found and/They’ll be chasing their tails trying to track us down…/…Lights flash and we’ll run for the fences/Let them say what they want, we won’t hear it/Loose lips sink ships all the damn time/Not this time…/…they take their shots, but we’re bulletproof
You’re still all over me/Like a wine-stained dress I can’t wear anymore/Hung my head as I lost the war/And the sky turned black like a perfect storm/Rain came pouring down/When I was drowning, that’s when I could finally breathe/And by morning/Gone was any trace of you, I think I am finally clean…/…There was nothing left to do…/…So I punched a hole in the roof/Let the flood carry away all my pictures of you/The water filled my lungs, I screamed so loud/But no one heard a thing…/…Ten months sober, I must admit/Just because you’re clean, don’t mean you don’t miss it/Ten months older, I won’t give in/Now that I’m clean, I’m never gonna risk it
Flashing lights and we/Took a wrong turn and we/Fell down a rabbit hole…/…’Cause nothing’s as it seems/And spinning out of control…/…Haven’t you heard what becomes of curious minds?/Ooh, didn’t it all seem new and exciting?/I felt your arms twisting around me/I should’ve slept with one eye open at night…/…We found Wonderland/You and I got lost in it/And life was never worse but never better…/…Too in love to think straight/All alone, or so it seemed/But there were strangers watching/And whispers turned to talking/And talking turned to screams, oh…/…It’s all fun and games ’til somebody loses their mind…/…I knew I had to go back home/You search the world for something else/To make you feel like what we had/And in the end, in Wonderland, we both went mad
One look, dark room/Meant just for you…/…No proof, one touch/But you felt enough…/…You can hear it in the silence, silence, you/You can feel it on the way home, way home, you/You can see it with the lights out, lights out/You are in love, true love…/…He keeps his word/And for once, you let go/Of your fears and your ghosts/One step, not much/But it said enough…/…One night he wakes/Strange look on his face/Pauses, then says/You’re my best friend/And you knew what it was/He is in love…/…And you understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars/And why I’ve spent my whole life tryin’ to put it into words
New Romantics
We’re all bored/We’re all so tired of everything/We wait for trains that just aren’t coming/We show off our different scarlet letters/Trust me, mine is better/We’re so young/But we’re on the road to ruin/We play dumb but we know exactly what we’re doin’…/…I could build a castle/Out of all the bricks they threw at me/And every day is like a battle/But every night with us is like a dream…/…Heartbreak is the national anthem/We sing it proudly/We are too busy dancing/To get knocked off our feet/Baby, we’re the new romantics/The best people in life are free…/…We’re all here/The lights and noise are blinding/We hang back/It’s all in the timing/It’s poker/He can’t see it in my face/But I’m about to play my Ace (ah)/We need love/But all we want is danger/We team up/Then switch sides like a record changer/The rumors are terrible and cruel/But honey, most of them are true
Taylor wins the pronoun game. I’m not even going to try to untangle the speaker/recipient/changing characters in this song. It was written so convoluted that I haven’t even seen a satisfactory answer to this yet. Instead, I took lyric snippets from other songs featuring the same word, to get a feeling about Taylor’s sentiment and even subject. Don’t get overwhelmed with the length of this post. The word I’m trying to point-out from Question… lyrics is highlighted.
It’s just a question
Half-moon eyes, bad surprise, did you realize?
P.S.
The person with half moon eyes is anxious.
Eyes:
Probably one of the most used words in her catalog. Extras: tolerate it,
Dorthea
cowboy like me
gold rush
Gorgeous
london boy
I think he knows
so it goes
Exile
coney island
Ivy
call it what you want
cruel summer
Happiness
Eyes are used in 4-5 different ways throughout Taylor’s songs: Celebrity, attraction, bearding, uncertainty, sadness.
Fame: The eyes full of stars phrasing is describing someone with ambition to be famous and wealthy. Taylor describes Dorthea (which may just be her younger self) this way. She also mentions it in Cowboy Like Me when she spots someone like her. They both want higher status, money, and the spotlight and will tell the rich people anything they want to hear in order to get there.
Attraction: Gorgeous and Gold Rush speaks to attraction to women. Taylor is upset she feels such a magnetic pull towards a woman, because it’s problematic for her public image. She almost jumps into the ocean blue eyes in Gold Rush. Simultaneously, Taylor has to hide this strong attraction. It will not go with her good girl persona, and will not help sales. Thus, the bearding.
Bearding: London Boy is satirical. There is no logistical way for Taylor to travel to all those places in a short time. She mentions things that would be awful, like being there while his mates watch rugby-English gals agree that nobody wants that. Taylor says she loves a gray sky and cab ride. No. Those are not perks, but downsides of the UK. So the descriptions of this English dude are in that vein. She uses child and boy, which are not romantic. Taylor is saying this person is under her, subservient, lessor. It’s like a mother, not a lover. An employee? Also, Taylor is playing the pronoun game hard in London Boy. She contrasts “he” to “you.” He is the dude from the UK, that she has control of and YOU is her true love interest. Taylor tells us the rumors are true (she’s gay). And I fancy or want YOU is preceded by darling. Taylor never says, I love you. She speaks to the audience and says you know I love a London Boy. The listeners have been told that Taylor loves a London Boy and she doubles-down on that again and again in the song. She TOLD us she loves a London Boy, but she fancies and wants YOU.
In I Think he Knows, Taylor continues the pronoun game contrasting he and you. She tells us she sees YOUR lyrical smile and indigo eyes and wants to drive away with YOU, to mean her same-sex love. HE just knows about it. She again says he’s boyish, and tells us she’s an architect drawing up (bearding) plans. So it Goes talks about the success of the bearding which hides Taylor’s true love. In public, Taylor and her lover are magicians and illusionists, hiding their truth in plain sight. And when they are alone there is sex and bliss. But all the hiding and secrets and lies make the couple breakdown. It’s hurting their love. But Taylor is torn: Her back is against the wall in regards to maintaining her public image–she must beard to be seen as straight and make money. But she can’t let go of this love–she’s a hostage to her feelings. There is strife about this difficult choice.
The lover doesn’t care for it. She stares at Joe like he’s an understudy, knowing that she would fight (Bad Blood) for Taylor. These lovers have to walk on eggshells to keep their true love a secret, and it causes strife. A million lies and many chances, are breaking the branches this relationship so carefully balances on. All the closeting and hiding chips away at the love. The lover gets tired of being invisible. She doesn’t like pretending that she’s not the center of Taylor’s world. But Taylor continues to closet and beard, never making the lover her centerfold, never saying her name from the podium. And that makes the sun (= Karlie) go down, little by little Karlie tires of the ruse, and it gets colder and more lonely for both, per Coney Island.
Uncertainty: The lover is promised to another. It might be contractual. She might want a “normal” life instead of a queer one. It might be a choice of more wealth than Taylor can offer. Between the lure and commitment to the guy and the life he can provide, and the problems and complications constantly caused by bearding and closeting, this lover is a flight risk. In Ivy, Taylor says the future of this love affair–her fate is tied to what the guy will do. If the lover doesn’t chose him, will he burn the house down? This man has a lot of power and money… It’s just one more barrier to the Sapphic love. In Call It What You Want Taylor tells Karlie (I hear her name in the song and can’t hear anything else) they don’t have to name what they are. It speaks to Karlie being nervous about calling herself Sapphic. Taylor urges her to just go with it and don’t worry about labels–she just wants this love. Problem is, Taylor sees a shiny toy, this bad boy with a price, and she bought it. She is telling us she paid this man to be her beard in Cruel Summer. But she already knows it’s hurting her lover and putting cracks in her actual relationship to play pretend. Taylor is separated from her lover, and that kills her. She wishes the lover would show up below her window.
Devil = evil
roll the dice = take a chance
Angels = good and pure
Roll their eyes = They judge the devil for taking that chance. It was wrong.
No rules = the relationship is no strings attached, casual, a friends with benefits situation
Breakable = fragile, delicate, if you will.
Heaven = Taylor feels pure joy at being with this person.
I love you ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard = The lover is conflicted. She could be back at the Speak Now days that Taylor went through where the gayness is a house of cards that if toppled will messily ruin everything. The lover can’t acknowledge it, fears it, hides it away. This line might also be saying the lover doesn’t want to be serious with Taylor. The lover is just having a fun fling, but really wants to live a heteronormative life with her bf/beard. She is not ready to be in a serious, monogamous relationship with Taylor.
He looks up, grinning like the devil = someone/something is undermining the heaven in this relationship. It might be Karlie’s bf/beard, Jo$h. And/or the public scrutiny and judgment about WLW love.
Sadness: Happiness is the sad culmination of all the stressors breaking the love apart. Taylor chose to continue bearding and closeting for her career. The lover chose heteronormativity, money, the man. And Taylor is heartbroken.
The half moon eyes in Question… are the combination of anxieties constantly tugging Kaylor (any sapphic lover) apart. There is the internal homophobia and questioning, the career pressures, political considerations, bearding complications, on and on. How many struggles can one relationship survive? Then, there is just sadness about what will never be. All the anxiety kills the partnership.
Bon Jovi wins easiest, most genuine segway into current events. He does a seamless job of staying true to his own sound, and having an album that discusses all of today’s issues. He hits on: Political ugliness, the division in the country, war, racial justice, covid, and I applaud him for taking it on, and doing it well. Every artist has a responsibility to do that right now.
Limitless: It’s an upbeat and exciting opener. Well, it took a long time, but Bon Jovi’s voice is shot. The shimmer & jitter have impacted the vocal quality throughout.
Do What You Can: Speaks to the anxiety of our nation right now. It’s a reminder to stay vigilant and social distance, but that doesn’t preclude helping a neighbor or stranger. America needs to hear it. It’s nice to have a covid song that stays within the band’s typical sound, where the writing is not forced.
American Reckoning: “Our conscience has been looted, and our soul is under siege.” Bon Jovi discusses our racial tensions and how history repeats.
Beautiful Drug: Extending syllables “lo-ah ah ah ah uv” does a lot to make a song catchy. It goes all the way back to our first infant babbling of phonemes like ba ba, na na, etc. It’s used effectively in this tune, and was the first song on the album that really caught my attention. And though I think the sentiment is naive (for where we are as a country) I can appreciate the optimism.
Story of Love; I totally tuned out of this one. The song tells of relationships between parents and children, which is nice. It’s a little too melodramatic, though. The instrumentals in the last third of the song redeem it. I was about to take it off the list, but it goes out pretty nicely.
Let it Rain: Good beat to start. I can tell it’ll be exciting. The sample is cool, and just a bit overused.
Lower the Flag: A somber tone. This is really meaningful, and genuine. I like the idea of limiting the jingoism a bit. We can be more moderate is what Bon Jovi suggests. The fast part is catchy and I like it. I’m not sure about the call outs, but it doesn’t ruin the song.
Blood in the Water: I don’t know… I can see he’s going for a relevant song , but it’s too much with devils and sharks.
Brothers in Arms: I think this song represents Bon Jovi’s catalogue best. It’s rock and a little gritty. And it’s a message we’re all related and need to stick together. And hello, is this miraca that I’m hearing–it’s pretty much the best.
Unbroken: This song is Ok. I like how the cadence is like a hymn and the subject is military. But I just–maybe it’s too much religious imagery for me? I’m not sure what exactly, i don’t care for that makes it a meh for me.
Do What You Can (duet): It’s a livelier, country version of the first song, and it sounds good as a duet.
Shine: A nice ballad. Excellent harmonies, and good guitar works. I like when artists use volume to convey importance and emotion.
Luv Can: The sentiment of love speaking when words don’t work is a nice one. He uses some phrases that I think he used in other songs before, so I’d like new material. The breakdown is also kind of 1980s. The “love is like a rolling thunder refrain” is nice, and perhaps the best portion of the song.
I’ve seen her at the Knitting Factory in Spokane twice, and both times she was on the verge of outgrowing the venue. Overcrowding lessons my good time, but they did amazing at both shows. Also, the first year she started late and I had to leave early (I still loathe Forster-Friday for forcing that regretful choice on me) and the 2nd year the venue had to hand-write tickets, and drunk Spokomptonites nearly ruined the show with their debauchery.
I also saw Brandi and the twins play with the symphony at Benaroya (spelling? IDK) Hall in Seattle. Unfortunately, not the year I lived in Seattle. I under much duress, I had to take vacation time from work, and drive the 6 hours over the pass one Thanksgiving break. The show wasn’t until the end of the visit (Cool’s family) so we were tired, and I was very worried about missing an exam and work in the morning. It had snowed uncharacteristically hard, and I didn’t want to get caught on the wrong side of the pass. So by the time the show came around I was already tired, then worried.
For my 4th and 5th Brandi shows, it was her opening for DMB at the Gorge. So it was a great time, but not HER shows. She played a bunch of covers, and it was windy as HEEEELLLL. And apparently, all the greatest tricks were left for Saturday, when we had Friday and Sunday tickets. And Cool was kinda of a pill that weekend.
But last night, in Salt Lake City, the band outdid themselves. I was worried because our show was the day after Red Rocks, which Brandi was all jazzed up about (of course). I thought our show–if it went on at all–would be like DMB post-Gorge. Still good. Still a concert. But much less enthusiasm/energy after the peak of the tour.
Plus, Cool got her tickets from a 4th party, because the venue is very hard-core on scalping and makes ticket limits, and ID’s the ticket-holder to make sure the name matches the ticket purchaser name. And we couldn’t hold the tickets until “an hour before the show.” Naturally I figured we were getting scammed. I knew we would never hold the tickets, and even if they were legit, we would not be let in.
I did not allow myself to get my hopes up, because I just knew our concert wouldn’t pan out.
But the day of the show, the tickets were e-mailed. I was only slightly relieved. We couldn’t print them. Cool had to make an emergency run for ink. Then, it wouldn’t print without BOTH color and black ink. And still, our tickets probably weren’t legit–and we weren’t on the list as the original purchaser.
After 1.5 hours, Cool printed two tickets.
So I packed our bags and got dressed, and we went to the venue. Next–the actual concert
I mean, not work exactly, but my first non-veterinary/animal-related and non-school job.
It was strange.
The pace is substantially slower. Like, I could do the whole thing in a very maximum of 3 hours (really getting into details) yet there was 6 of us scheduled and I was there for 8 hours.
It’s a lot of wandering around wondering what else there is to do. Everyone is in that boat, and we’re on top of each other. But mostly everyone is good natured about it. They all know the story. And I guess better this way then short-staffed like I’m used to. I’m not used to it, but it’s WAAAAAAY lower stress.
Everyone was nice to me right off too. They were nicer to me, and included me more on my first day, than some vet hospitals ever had (Emergency, Seattle, Cat’s Meow I’m talking to you). Which is sad for those past jobs–shame on you. The gal showing me the ropes said she wished we could normally work together (I’m a good worker, and a nice person if you give me half a chance). That was something nice. It’s not like I care what people think about me, and normally the people that don’t like me–well I don’t tend to like them either. So it’s not that I fret or dwell on the opinion of sheep or $hit-heads as the case may be. But constant negativity coming towards you eventually drags you down a little. And that had been happening. This automatically feels a lot better!
The gal working with me was like, “there’s no way you did a good job–that was too fast.” when we were squeegeeing the floors dry. But what they didn’t know is I know my way around a squeegee, having cleaned dog runs, cow stanchions, and hogs my entire working life. So I pretty much immediately became the squeegee super-star of the group 😀
When I showed up on my 2nd day, nobody I knew was working. So I pretty much had to figure it out and go it alone–I guess 4 hours of training was all I got. So that was weird, because I still didn’t know a lot of anything. I wasn’t sure where all the supplies were, what times we were allowed to do certain things, or even what jobs needed to be done. But I’m used to that story–vets never have time to appropriately train anybody so I’m used to being thrown in the deep end.
My supervisor’s last day was my 2nd day of work. Which is also a weird way to start a job. And everyone was so nice to him and made him feel important and special. I decided on someone’s last day, it’s not only a nice thing, but an obligatory etiquette to, at the very, very least have a card for them. Which Cat’s Meow didn’t for me. Nor did Aurora or emergency. And Noah’s Ark didn’t, but my employers gave me a nice necklace and everyone (important) seemed legit sad to see me go. And that’s totally on those past jobs, and their bad karma–it has nothing to do with my that they acted so $hitty. It was nice to see these current coworkers get a card and sign, long messages in it, bake a cake, and invite him out for drinks after work. All on their own accord. It wasn’t mandatory or reminded–they just stepped up and did the right thing. They invited me along too, and it would have been a great bonding opportunity, but there was ZERO chance I could have said no to drinking, so unfortunately I had to decline the invitation. I’m not a night person anyway so I would have been yawning into my soda.
Here’s my 6th day (2nd week) of work:
-supervisor said I don’t have to do all the work in the 1st hour “pace yourself.”
-supervisor told me I was doing a really good job, going above and beyond and it’s being noticed and appreciated!
-everyone left me and the other new girl (on her 12th day) alone to do the closing tasks. Which entails clean 3 locker-rooms, by spraying soap on the floors, scrubbing it in, rinsing with water, and squeegeeing it dry. Then finishing last minute things that require empty rooms, and locking up.
-But the hose only reaches 2 of the rooms, so you have to move it in the middle of the task.
-I couldn’t twist the hose on the nozzle in the 3rd room b/c it wouldn’t thread right.
-Coworker got ready for his date in the locker room so he bent down and hooked it up. Then he left for the night.
-we couldn’t remove the hose to finish the last 2 rooms. Wasted 40 min trying to untwist it.
-called co-worker on his date to find out story–left VM.
-That’s OK, I had a plan B and I went to just get another hose.
-2nd hose wouldn’t attach to spout either.
-tried different hook-ups for additional 20 min before my coworker said that hose had been broken.
-That’s OK, I had a plan C, and we used the shower water to rinse (but the hose was still in room 3).
-Finished rm 1 with shower heads and buckets of water.
-Randomly saw big boss who usually leaves at 10 PM, and asked for help.
-Squeegeed floor in room 1 while big-boss worked on stuck hose in room 3.
-he ran in room 1 saying he got the hose off, but the water was on (the nozzle was in my pocket)
-He turned off the water and said the hose pops on and off, it doesn’t twist. . . Ugh. Nobody had mentioned that.
-It confused me, because when I tried to put the hose on, I was definitely twisting–it was a twist one and my coworker used that exact same hose. . .
-We felt stupid, embarrassed, annoyed.
-At midnight we set the alarm, and walked to our cars.
-There were 3 additional cars in the parking lot. Uh oh.
-We had maybe(?) locked the big boss in the building, and alarmed it so touching any door or using a key would set it off.
-BUT we only knew how to arm the alarm–I don’t have or know the disarm code, so we couldn’t turn it back off.
-We couldn’t use our keys to go inside b/c we’d set off the alarm.
-The phone tree is inside the building so we couldn’t call to warn him or ask him how to disarm it.
-The building is too large to knock on doors/windows.
-So we just went home. . . Oh well.
They may never leave us alone again, I’m not sure. But I guess that’s not the worst thing. I don’t always have to accept maximum responsibility at every job I have. I can just be a worker on the team.
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