\u201cI don\u2019t know, man. I feel a little iffy about this job,\u201d Savoy said. \u201cBut I can\u2019t tell if it\u2019s a gut feeling or if it\u2019s just because working in places decorated for Christmas feels like a bad omen.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBad omens? We got fuckin\u2019 Rudolph up here guiding the sleigh tonight. There isn\u2019t a better omen than that,\u201d Nero smartassed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWow, that\u2019s an original fuckin\u2019 joke,\u201d their driver, the aforementioned Rudolph grumped. \u201cWhy don\u2019t you tell one I ain\u2019t heard a million times before?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDamn, Scrooge, who pissed in your porridge?\u201d Nero asked. \u201cI was just trying to lighten the mood.\u201d
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\n\u201cLook, man, if I wanted to hear the same tired-ass joke over and over, I\u2019d go back to working retail,\u201d Rudolph said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not even the reindeer, is it?\u201d Braum asked to both commiserate and change the subject. In his experience, the codenames were almost never actually about the thing they seemed.<\/p>\n
\u201cNope. Rudolph Valentino,\u201d Rudolph said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWas your controller that woman with all the black and white pictures of movie stars in her office?\u201d Selznick asked excitedly.<\/p>\n
\u201cYep.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was my controller too!\u201d Selznick said. \u201cHer office is wall-to-wall photos of old movie stars. It\u2019s like the Brown Derby in there.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, she wanted to go with Sheik but it was too short, she said,\u201d Rudolph explained. \u201cAnd Valentino was too long. So now Christmas is way fun to work every year \u2019cause everyone thinks he\u2019s the first guy to think up a smartass comment about the driver being named Rudolph.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, fuck, man, sorry,\u201d Nero said in a way that belied that he had no sympathy at all for this salty son of a bitch. Dude needed to get some Christmas spirit.<\/p>\n
This story was part of my 2019 TRL event.<\/p>\n
A Syndicate fella that’s named Scrooge (based on McDuck, but crews don’t often figure that), and how he ironically hates taling jobs in December because of the constant jokes. Maybe have our friend Braum there to sympathize with names.<\/p>\n
-Paupers Run<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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