sub1
A manager is holding a 'team briefing' and general pep-talk where trendy corporate lines are spewed out to employees who all feign interest. They do not care.
Malcolm is unshaven and viewed as a slob. Lucy is a punk in her spare time (in the fashion sense) but dresses impeccably for the office. Sharon is the manager. A middle-aged, bitter borderline-sadist whose fulfilment in life is to make sure that office work is undertaken correctly.
When Sharon leaves the office, she sits in her above-average car and stares into the rear-view mirror. Probably hoping to find the existential 'cork' to plug her massive existential 'gap'.
She chews tic-tacs during the fifteen minute car journey home.
She arrives home, usually, just after her husband.
They hold long conversations. They're long, in the hope that either party will touch upon something profound amongst their usual soup of aching monotony. This does not occur.
The average night for Sharon and her husband is usually hours spent staring at the television. The news. Sharon's husband usually leaves for bed first. He does not love Sharon.
Sharon turns off the television and walks to bed. Both parties lay in the bed. Sometimes, they will engage in pitiful sex. Mostly, they do not.
In the morning, Sharon often wakes alone. Her husband must leave for work.
Sharon brushes her teeth whilst staring into the mirror.
Her eyes are usually glistened with a thin layer of liquid.
Sharon makes a mental note that she must be tired. The glistening is caused by Sharon's pathetic human state. Sharon has addressed the problem of existence incorrectly.
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