1. "Just Two Buddies"


    Date: 5/31/2024, Categories: Celebrities & Fan Fiction, Author: bySkinttt 

    ... out.

Another day in the Salt mines.

Wait- no, that doesn't work here since it's a quarry.

Oh- I got a better one!

Hmmm..

The....uh... rock and gravel.... mines.

There we go.

All fixed.

A thought comes back to me,

Why does Barney say anything nice about me- especially after all the times I've crushed his confidence and messed with his head a little too much.

I can't lie, I always thought it was funny how gullible he was.

All those practical jokes I played on him... but we both learned our lesson there.

He still insists on playing gin rummy with me every evening after work- he comes bowling with me almost every time I want to- and he never forgets my birthday... even when I forget my own

AND his.

I've been such a horrible friend

I audibly sigh.

"You should go apologize to him."

One side of my conscience says

"Like that will do you any good- you're just a big fat bully."

Says the other

Why do decisions have to be so difficult.?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Oh well... I'll worry about this later.

No POV:

Fred walks into the main building and sees a coworker, whom he never understood, standing by the water cooler.

He hangs his head low and tries to avoid eye contact

"Awww.. Freddie- are yousad?"

He teases Fred, making him look up

"No." He keeps walking

"But it looks like you're gonnacry..."

Turning ...
    ... red in the face out of annoyance, he starts walking faster towards his locker

"The big baby boy need his binkie?"

The worker keeps talking

Out of impulse, Fred grabs him by the collar and screams in his face to silence him

"Shut up. Shut up. Shut your mindless yapper before it's wired shut, you numbskull!"

The guy pulls away and holds his hands in front of his face

"Please, Fred- I was only kidding!"

"It was- it was- it was only a joke, yeah, just a big joke, see? I'm even laughing"

Fred exhales and tries to calm down.

"Just get out of here before I'm the one laughin'..

..at you."

The coworker runs into a supply closet and locks the door, fearing that Fred will come chasing after him.

"Hopefully he doesn't report me to Mr. Slate.." Fred thinks to himself as he opens his locker and puts his cap on his head.

~later~

Fred stops by Mr. Slate's office to report a leaky faucet in the restroom- thinking it might get him closer to his boss's good side.

About to walk in, Fred is halted by a locked door and a note

The note reads:

On vacation- please direct all questions, requests, and/or reports to the on duty foreman or overseer.

See you next week. Signed, Mr. Slate.

"Vacation, eh? Wait'll I tell Barney."

Now quitting time, Fred punches out of his shift and returns to his car.

"Maybe this week won't be so bad after all-"
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