I overheard a worker at McDonald's explaining to a friend that she had no problem getting ready for work or knowing when she had done enough fussing I wash my hair make myself presentable she said short sleeves are OK or sometimes I wear long not out of modesty but to cover the obligatory fry burns that are the mark of lax workplace health and safety and a badge of honour for trusting teens eager to shake the fat from the sugar crisped chips and salt away to make the magic of salt and sweet and fat that makes children pliant and widows fat and there is the baseball cap we wear backwards pony tail a perfect clasp and any sort of black will do for slacks as long as they are not stretch pants or give too much prominence to lululemon cross promotion is OK but not without an agreement and a deal on the residuals and about shaving there really is no need I'm blonde you see she said it's not that we don't ...

Give us this Day is the online creative journal of Kurtis Kitagawa, PhD (Edinburgh), MPhil (Oxford), MA (Chicago), BA First Class Honours (Calgary), who, withal, considers himself a student of history. Check daily for freshly composed essays and offbeat creative writing inspired by a life spent in universities, government, and business. Job offers gratefully accepted. Alternative facts welcome, and will not be burned. Nor will their ashes be used as eye shadow!