Day #24 - The Plot Twists.

Stroy #1 - I didn't know who my colleague really was! I started working at Home Depot around 2005 and was somewhat of an introvert. I graduated in 2004 and really struggled breaking out of the high school mentality and not having a set group of friends to hang out with. So I start at Home Depot and a guy named Nick I work with invites me out drinking, I'm only 19 at the time, but he's a few years older. We ended up becoming very good friends but haven't necessarily breached the emotional shit beyond chicks. We used to go out pretty often back then. Fast forward a few months and my step-mom's mother dies. Pretty bleak stuff and I really just have my family to talk to, which of course isn't the same at all. I'm kinda struggling, my buddy Nick is drifting away as well and the day of the funeral comes. It's towards the end and I walk up to say my final goodbyes, look over, Nick is there staring at me dumbfounded. We high five, hug, and find out he's my step mom's nephew and we were both drifting away because we didn't have anyone to bring real shit to (outside of family). Been best friends since. Stroy #2 - How I started hating my prestigious job? I graduated law, and got engaged to the girl I had been with through university. We both applied for the same graduate program and ended up working in the same office in Canberra. Three months before our wedding I found out she was cheating on me with our mutual boss, and I broke it off with her. It got really, really ugly and the two of us ended up in a very bitter court case over property. Canberra is a pretty small city and the legal world is pretty bloody small there, too, and everywhere I went I bumped into my ex. It was beginning to seriously get me down, and I applied for an Australian government overseas development job in Tuvalu, a pacific island. It's quite a prestigious job to a two year contract on a rotating basis. get, with only two positions offered for 140K I was successful in the application and moved on-island to start my posting. To discover that my ex was the other successful applicant. I spent the next two years sharing a tiny office on a tiny island with the person that I quite honestly loathe more than any other in the world.