{"id":613,"date":"2020-05-18T10:04:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T10:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pubcrawlbrussels.com\/aure1\/?p=613"},"modified":"2020-12-13T12:34:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T10:34:23","slug":"jean-michel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bornmillennials.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/18\/jean-michel\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Life of Jean-Michel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jean-Michel Starts His Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It is 6:45 AM<\/strong> and the alarm bell rings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean-Michel painfully emerges from sleep. Baffled, he looks at where his ex-wife was still sleeping 3 months ago. What a nightmare he’s just had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He dreamt that he had been fired because his 20-year-old son Jordan had given up on his engineering studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn’t normal, he thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a quick shower and a cup of coffee, Jean-Michel is about to depart for work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has neither the appetite nor the time to eat something consistent in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His boss is an early bird and hates it to see Jean-Michel arriving late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He must arrive before 8:30 AM at the office and has at least one hour on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There will probably be some traffic jams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is 8 AM<\/strong>. Jean-Michel is in his business car, stuck in a traffic jam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His company has recently made available a financial bonus for employees that would leave their car home and take public transportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking the fast train would spare Jean-Michel at least 30 minutes and would pollute less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Jean-Michel enjoyed listening to the radio in his car in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had been a long-time fan of this hilarious political show where a comedian makes fun of politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listening to the radio show was probably the best part of Jean-Michel’s day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He didn’t mind wasting an hour per day driving in his car even if there were better alternatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, there are always some weird people in the train station which makes Jean-Michel feel uncomfortable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s 8:35 AM<\/strong>. Jean-Michel is parking the car, hoping the boss won’t notice he is 5 minutes late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has a meeting with the COO of the company at 9:30 AM and he had been working the entire evening yesterday to be fully prepared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His boss had told him he was up for a promotion if he did some good work. Jean-Michel saw that promotion as revenge on life and on his ex-neighbor that had moved to Spain with his (now) ex-wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He would get that promotion, he knew it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s 10:30 AM.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean-Michel got yelled at for being late and the meeting didn’t go very well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In all the troubles his son had caused him, Jean-Michel had forgotten to look at key indicators on a competitor’s sales during the last quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These numbers were very important to the COO and Jean-Michel had now to fix his mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s 12:30 PM<\/strong>. Jean-Michel is sitting with Thierry and Philippe, his favorite colleagues, at the cafeteria of the office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thierry is eating a sandwich while Philippe is eating pasta carbonara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean-Michel looks at Thierry’s ham with envy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He chose a salad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After his wife had left him, Jean-Michel had decided to become vegetarian to “cleanse his body and soul”, as he had explained to his colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They had talked on the radio about these recent new studies saying that meat gave cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean-Michel’s uncle had died of cancer a couple of years back, so Jean-Michel was afraid the disease was running in his genes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had read in a woman lifestyle magazine that a vegetarian diet significantly decreased chances to get cancer, improved energy, and made you lose weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had hence decided to try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That ham on Thierry’s sandwich looked damn good though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s 2:30 PM<\/strong>. Jean-Michel is drinking coffee to not fall asleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J\u00e9r\u00e9my, the funny colleague that makes everybody laugh, is telling one of his famous jokes and all the colleagues are laughing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even Charlotte.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charlotte has recently arrived in the company and works in Jean-Michel’s department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is young, kind, and beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean-Michel thinks she would be a perfect companion to replace his wife, and he might ask her out very soon, maybe at the office party next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean-Michel knows that dating colleagues is not authorized in the company, but he is probably not going to get that promotion anyway and had been thinking about changing job for a long time now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s 5 PM<\/strong>. Jean-Michel is about to go home after a long day at work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As he is waiting for the elevator, Anne-Marie, the head of the marketing department, asks Jean-Michel if he can’t quickly come with her to revise some numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean-Michel looks at his watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He wants to go home and prepare for the game tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His friends are coming to his place and he needs to get the living room ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne-Marie insists, so Jean-Michel caves in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s 7:30 PM<\/strong>. Jean-Michel has finally arrived home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The traffic jam was bigger than usual, a truck and motorbike had run into each other. Nicolas, St\u00e9phanie, Victoire, Martin, and Thomas will arrive shortly to watch the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean-Michel puts the beers in the fridge and while cleaning the living room, stumbles onto a pack of cigarettes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean-Michel hesitates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s been 11 months since he last time smoked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s true he had a rough day and deserves a bit of comfort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vegetarian diet has been tough lately even though he’s been feeling much better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meat is probably terrible for the human body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s 8:00 PM<\/strong>. Jean-Michel’s friends have arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though he won’t admit it, he is relieved deep down to hear that Thomas is also going through a divorce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was afraid he’d be the only one in this rough situation and to be made fun of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicolas lost his job and Victoire cannot stand hers anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But now is not the time to think about all that, the game has started and Jean-Michel feels a bit drunk already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victoire is really pretty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s 11:30 PM<\/strong> and Jean-Michel is going to sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He will clean the living room tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was happy to watch the game with his friends, it was a good night that compensated for the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He shouldn’t have smoked though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next month, he will ask Charlotte out and if everything works out, he will quit his job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Life is not so bad after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean-Michel closes his eyes and falls asleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He doesn’t know that tomorrow, he’ll die in a car accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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