Chaz: the tale of the toothbrush

Chaz strolled out to the garden center, he saw Louise and Van. Louise gave him a hug.

“Hey Chaz, how are ya?” she asked.

Before Chaz could answer Assistant Manager Matt appeared from inside the store, he eye-balled Chaz.

“Chaz, come with me,” he motioned for Chaz to follow. Louise and Derrick both went “oooo” as he left. Chaz just flipped them off. They both laughed.

“Well we won’t be seeing him the rest of the day,” Louise said to Derrick.

Chaz followed Matt to the back room.

“I want you to sweep up the entire back room and then the small back room, by the bike shop.”

“Ok,” Chaz said. As Matt left Chaz cursed, grabbing a large green dust mop. He spent 30 minutes sweeping the large back room. Every time he swept up, someone came by and messed it back up.

“C’mon,” Chaz whined as he swept up the same area again. An hour later he was done. He took his break then headed out to the GC. Derrick was there and waved. Five minutes later another assistant manager showed up.

“Chaz, got something for you to do,” Chaz sighed, gave Derrick a look and left. “I want you to go help them out cleaning the edges of the coolers.”

“Ok,” Chaz said making his way to the frozen section. There he ran into assistant Matt, who handed him a toothbrush. “Are you serious,” Chaz asked.

“Yep, we need you to clean all the small crevasses with that tooth brush. I have some Q-tips if you have a corner that is hard to get to.”

Chaz scowled and mouthed obscenities as he plopped down onto the cold floor and began cleaning. Twenty minutes later Lex came walking by and saw him. He stopped dead in his tracks and stared.

“What!” Chaz snarled.

“Nothin’ man,” Lex said trying not to laugh. He walked off a grin on his face and headed out to the GC.

“Dude you will not believe what I just saw,” Lex said to Derrick and Louise.

“What,” they said together.

“Chaz, on the floor, cleaning the coolers with a toothbrush.”

Derrick and Louise looked at each other and then back at Lex. All three of them began to laugh hysterically.

“Oh that’s good,” Louise said, “I’m so going to start calling him Cinderella.”

“I’m just going to call him Cindy,” Lex said. They all continued to laugh as they worked.

Throughout the day Louise told other people about Chaz cleaning with a toothbrush and they all laughed.

The next day Louise saw Chaz.

“Hey Cinderella,” she said. Chaz just glared at her.

“Don’t go there,” he snarled.

Louise laughed, “what’s the matter, wicked step-mother problems?” She joked.

Chaz glared at her.

“The seven dwarves leave you to clean alone again, didn’t they,” she said laughing.

“Seriously, stop,” Chaz said.

Louise laughed more. Later that day Lex showed up for work.

“Hey Lex,” Chaz said while watering the plants on the tables near the registers.

“Sup Cindy,” he said smiling. Chaz just glared at him. “I got you something,” he pulled a small bag from his pocket. “It’s no glass slipper, but I figured you’d find a use for it.”

Chaz opened the bag and pulled out a glass toothbrush. Lex and Louise fell into each other laughing, while Chaz just stood there holding the toothbrush up, glaring at them.

Lex: The day he uttered “there’s nothing to do.”

So the other day Lex did a stupid thing, a very stupid thing, he said there was nothing to do....here's what happened:

“C’mon Lex,” Chaz whined seeing him on his phone again.

“What, there’s nothing to do,” Lex said rolling his eyes at Chaz.

Chaz just shook his head as he grabbed the dust mop and began to sweep up the floor. A few minutes later Co-Manager Jake came through the interior doors and made his way towards Chaz and Lex. Jake walked with the presence of a drill instructor.

“Hi guys, whatcha doin’?” he asked, a grin on his Derrick.

“Just sweeping up,” Chaz said looking over at Lex, who had discreetly tucked his iPhone into his pocket.

“What about you,” Jake asked looking at Lex.

“Watching the register, because there is nothing to do.”

Chaz’s eyes grew wide as his mouth dropped open. He couldn’t believe what he just heard. Co-Manager Jake just grinned.

“Nothing to do?” he asked, “Well I am sure I can find something for you to do.” Jake looked around and then pointed at the base of the registers. “Right there, I want you to get some lime away from produce, and scrub that rust off.” Jake had crossed his arms and was watching Lex. Chaz tried not to laugh as he watched Lex’s face drop.

“Seriously,” Lex said the baby within him beginning to sniffle. Just then Louise came walking out and saw them.

“Hey guys, hello Jake,” she said watching them.

“Make sure it gets done because I can pull the video and see if you actually did it.” Jake smiled.

“Oh yea,” Lex teased, “don’t worry I’ll get it done.” Jake smiled and walked off and back into the store.

“Why the fuck would you say some stupid shit like that?” Chaz said looking at him perplexed.

“I don’t know man, I don’t know.”

Louise looked at them confused, “said what?”

“Lex here said right in front of Jake ‘there’s nothing to do’”

“Why’d you say something like that to of all people?” She asked.

Lex just shook his head, “I’m going to get the lime stuff.”

Louise started to laugh and Chaz couldn’t hold it back any longer. He busted up, doubling over with laughter. The sight of Lex’s face made it worse and he struggled to breath.

“You both suck,” he said as he walked off. Chaz and Louise continued to laugh. Catching her breath, Louise leaned against the black metal bars that separated the carts from the registers.

“I think he’s lost his mind.”

“No doubt,” Louise said. Fifteen minutes later Lex returned carrying several packets of lime away. He tossed them onto one of the registers.

“What am I supposed to do with these?”

Louise snickered, “you can put it in one of the yellow mop buckets and fill it with water.”

Lex sighed and walked over to where they stored the mops and buckets. Pulling out a mop he dragged the yellow bucket outside, filling it with water and mixing in the powdered lime away. Pulling inside he dropped the mop head into the water. He scowled at Louise and Chaz as they snickered, hitting each other trying not to laugh out loud.

“You guys could help,” he said pulling the mop out and beginning to clean.

“Nope, we weren’t the one who was dumb enough to say what you said,” Chaz said.

“I’m supervising,” Louise said crossing her arms and leaning against the back of a register.

Lex cursed them both, and they just laughed. Ten minutes later Lex was on his knees, scrubbing the corner of a register. His ass, legs and feet were all you could see.

“Oh this is a moment,” Louise said as she pulled out her phone and snapped a picture, “oh yea, that’s going on my facebook.” She sent the picture to her album and snorted laughing.

“Seriously,” Lex said to her, rolling his eyes, “fuck you guys.”

“No you fucked yourself,” Chaz roared.

Later that night after Lex had gone home; Louise had noticed a comment on the picture of Lex. It was made by Lex, it read, “I hate my life.” Louise laughed, and commented back with, “lol, Bitch Work.”