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Victoria Vivente's avatar

This was absolutely hilarious, I started laughing out loud, which as you can imagine at 1:33am in the morning, is quite the fright for both cat and neighbours 🤣

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Michael Young's avatar

Vic, I'm so stoked it managed to get a reaction like that. Thank you! And of course, I'm deeply sorry to your cat and neighbours (in that order).

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Lucas's avatar

My kiddo loves your writing. It's part of bedtime reading. Well guess what, bedtime took ba while because there was so much laughter. Thanks for sharing.

I worked at an airplane catering company in my late teens. And this story took me back behind the curtains of mass food prep.

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Michael Young's avatar

Lucas, you're an absolute gem. Thank you so much for sharing that! It makes my day to hear that your kid gets a laugh out of it. And thank you for the donation as well!

Also, I can't imagine what goes on behind the scenes of an airplane catering company. Carnage, I'm assuming.

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Joyce's avatar

Oh yes, I've been there, having many 'shit adjacent' jobs while paying my way thru uni🤦‍♀️ One was at a local WA cheese factory where my job was to make dips. I had to don rubber gloves and mix, by hand on a stainless surgical gurney, packets of dried french onion soup evenly into great lumps of freezing cold cream cheese. If nothing else, it was a great incentive to pass my exams!! (Also glad to no longer be in my 20's Brent😁)

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Michael Young's avatar

The glamorous life of student jobs. Thanks, Joyce!

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Lisa Fu's avatar

Damn those toilets fishes

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Michael Young's avatar

The worst!

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Lisa Fu's avatar

btw, what’s your favorite fish?

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Lisa Fu's avatar

“The”!? Hopefully there are no additional “worst”

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Brent Hartinger's avatar

Been there, soooo glad I'm no longer in my 20s! 😂😂😂

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Michael Young's avatar

I don't miss it! 🫣

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Michael Jensen's avatar

Hmm, perhaps saying "Toilet fish" in French might've classed the whole thing up a bit!

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Michael Young's avatar

The French could have definitely made a toilet fish classy!

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WB's avatar

Thanks for the laugh. You sure can tell a story! I believe I’ve never seen “toilet” and “fish” in the same sentence. 😁

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Michael Young's avatar

Haha thanks, WB! Much appreciated. I'm doing my best to carve out a very specific niche for myself! 🚽🐟

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Pete Kemery's avatar

I can relate to this almost too well. The worst place I worked was a fancy club at a ski resort that marked up the same menu as the mediocre restaurant next door. Literally the same food. The resort, ironically, is called Purgatory.

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Michael Young's avatar

Wow, what a name. The absolute shithousery of these places. Sounds like a lot of fun!

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