Time to Make the Donuts

[sockhopsolly]

THE ON-DUTY MEME



We're all used to playing our characters in special circumstances--sharing a bath, AUed into a robot, in the rain, lost in the ball pit (well that's one way to get your extra hour)...but how often do we get to actually play our characters doing their day jobs?

This meme is for just that.

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Write a starter about your character going about their day at work, wherever that may be.

If your character is a doctor, write them checking in on a patient, or having a meal in the hospital cafeteria. If they're a lawyer, write them at court. If they're a professional ghost-hunter? Yeah, that'd be a pretty neat starter too!

Be sure to include some sort of hook that allows other characters to join in the action, even if your character works alone. Maybe they brought their pile of research out to a cafe? Maybe they need help with something?

2. Respond to other characters' starters. Please tag out if you put a starter up. I know I can't enforce this, but no meme goes anywhere if people don't engage.

3. Thread. Have a good day at work, or perhaps an awful day at work.

Comments

Jesse Pinkman | Breaking Bad | OTA

[yeahmagnets]

((Side note: prose is fine if you don't like brackets. I'll match your style.))

[Jesse leaves his hazmat suit and respirator behind as he exits the underground meth lab hidden behind a giant commercial dryer. Nobody seems to notice him (or they just pretend not to) as he walks through the warehouse and heads toward the bay doors where the cars are parked. He's been itching for a cigarette for the past four hours and he finally has enough time to leave the industrial laundromat for a smoke.

He pulls out a pack of cigarettes and slides one from the pack, holding it between his lips as he puts his hand into the pocket of his black jacket and for the first time in hours his mildly bored expression changes.

His blue eyes grow wider and he's checking all of his pockets while muttering to himself until he let's out a defeated sigh, eyes closed and face towards the sky. He curses his shitty luck when he notices someone else in the dusty parking lot.]

Yo. You got a light? I'm dyin' here.

[He makes a gesture with his hand, miming the action of igniting a lighter.]