I was unemployed for a while. I quickly realised that all everybody wanted to talk about was jobs. If I was meeting someone for the first time, I would be asked what my job was before I was asked what my name was. I got so tired of it that I avoided speaking to people entirely. However, I still got asked. When I did I just told them I didn't work. This usually stunned people into silence. It was a great way to filter people out! I didn't expect HER to respond the way she did though.
"Yeah me neither. Working sucks" she said. It was like music to my ears.
We quickly became friends. We talked for ages about everything in life that didn't involve working. We hung out and ate cheap fast food on dates. We were in our own world.
Then we noticed the world around us. People who wouldn't stop talking about working sounded like zombies. They were... jombies. They had a similar glazed look to zombies. Their endless conversations about working sounded like creepy zombie groans. When we were unwilling ear witnesses to these conversations we both wore headphones and plugged into a smart tablet to watch a nostalgic cartoon show from our childhoods.
Many of these cartoons featured guys and girls who had romantic tension, but they were almost never brought together. We role played scenarios where they were very much in love, and it added lots of fun to our own romantic relationship.
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