Short Story – Characters
March 16th, 2007 (Story)So, I’m thinking about writing a short story. It will be based on a job I had in high school that was strange. Well, the job was not so strange, it was more the people and the business itself that was strange. OK, so I had a strange job…stop judging me. I’m going to start brainstorming some of the characters on here. Since nobody reads this blog anyway, it really doesn’t matter:
Carol Carol makes cables. She is about 60 years old but looked to me to be about 10 years older. She has put up with so much crap at the job from all these high school/college guys that she has turned bitter and hard. Carol does not like loud music. She may be old, but she can joke around – and not always clean jokes either. She always appears to be on her last nerve and does not take much mouthing off from people.
Jake Jake is a senior in high school. He is full of life and a charmer to everyone except his parents. He recently got his tongue pierced, but that was the last straw for his parents. They have just kicked him out of their house. So, he is staying with friends and has just bought an old Toyota pickup. Jake is quickly discovering his sexuality and how much he enjoys the attention he gets from sex…and the opposite sex. Jake is one of Tony’s favorites and will do anything to please him.
Sean Sean did steroids in high school. He was a major jock in his day and made his teachers and even the coach afraid by how powerful he and his friends were physically. That was 20 years and 60 pounds ago. He drank too much beer in his college days and now has flab where there was once muscle. He still thinks he is intimidating, but others really see him as a big teddy bear. Sean wants God to want him, but he thinks that he has done too much wrong in his life for that to happen.
Jeff Jeff is the stereo-typical boss. Everyone just feels a little bit more uncomfortable and on edge when he is around. He tries to instill some amount of fear in his employees in the hope that they will work harder, but he only causes them to feel less motivated as he pushes them away. Jeff’s business tactics are very short term and he only considers what he can get for himself.
Tony Tony is the other boss that wants everyone to like him. He really is intimidating to some employees, yet has a low self-esteem. Tony lives vicariously through Jake and often recounts how wonderful his high school days were. His obsession with Jake is almost enough to make his other employees believe that Tony is gay. However, he objectifies women to the point that no one can really be sure of his sexual orientation. Tony has some Catholic background which confuses his world view. He is a geek at heart, but only wants to let other geeks see that.
Winnie Winnie is one crazy old woman. She is definitely in a different social class than any one else at the job. Winnie is a very private woman and will try to hide any non-good emotion as much as possible. She has an obsession with beanie babies – she buys and sells them all day long at work believing that this is her ticket to a better life (more money).
Me No one really knows what to do with me. I am not extremely skilled in building computers or troubleshooting them. I have ended up somehow as the web programmer even though I have very little programming experience. My nickname is the Pope because I am a Christian.
Interesting….was your nickname really the Pope? I like the same first and last name thing…
Thanks for all your comments, Sarah. Yes, my nickname actually was the Pope. Yeah, the first name thing is confusing. I think when I wrote it, I actually meant to just make the first names be the heading and then the name actually starts the description.