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plush horse stories
ice cream parlor,
candy shop, bakery, 1986-1990
work stories

sparkle

so pete came into the shop one night, he worked
there, but he had the night off, and he comes in
saying he’s really drunk and can he sleep on the
couch in the manager’s office in the back for a
little bit and sleep it off before he goes back to his
parent’s house? and marty, the manager, says
sure, and so pete goes to the back and before
you know it he’s out like a light. but john was
working that night, and pete and john were good
friends, so john wanted to get him, so he got a
bottle of sparkle glass cleaner, the only glass cleaner
that’s purple, and he started spraying it on pete’s
crotch. pete didn’t wake up, and after a few minutes
of john pressing his luck pete’s blue jeans were
soaked with sparkle. we were buckling over,
laughing so hard. pete finally woke up, mad but
too drunk to do anything about it. he had an
extra pair of pants in the car.


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