#also had to fight with a child coworker abt what a dollar coin was

[spinescent]

In elementary school we had a field trip where we went to this fake lil city inside a bigger building. Maybe it was this thing - if it wasn't it looked super similar

Anyways, every little kid got a job assigned to them. I remember there were tiny bankers, cops, and restaurant workers. Probably more but who knows. I was a restaurant worker. Everyone else got to run around and do cute little roleplays and exchange paper money/tickets and shit - the restaurant kiddos had to do actual labor. Like we had to prepare snacks - one of which was food prep gloves filled with popcorn and m&ms? ? - under strict supervision of a couple adults making sure we weren't sneaking any food for ourselves. The lunch periods were divided into three. Each time lunch hit we were taking actual money and do actual math and selling product. We did not have any time to actually run around and do the field trip. I had to work through my little lunch period because of how slammed our tiny little restaurant got. I have no actual ending to this other than I'm occasionally unhappy how much this mirrors the real world, and food prepared in gloves still repulses me.

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