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go to my friend’s house. so i drive my own car and i parked next to my friend (L). our other friend (X) parked behind L. so L had to leave and needed X to move her car. X comes back to repark and leaves her car because she couldn’t get the key out of the ignition.
I can have an amazing time on a trip and come home feeling like it was completely worth it. But vacations aren’t relaxing at all! I went to Mexico once, and afterwards my friend asked me, “Do you feel recharged?” Umm… no not at all.
Instead, they will be assigned to top secret projects deep in some remote location trying to perform some impossible and futile task, like figuring out how to turn lead into gold in commercial quantities through alchemy, or what the secret ingredient in Coca-Cola is.