“Hello, my name is High School Coach. You may recognize me, my buzzcut, my shorts, my whistle, and so on from any number of tv shows from the past forty or fifty years. I’ve come to talk to you about life. Have you noticed how much it has changed since I’ve been around?
“It used to be that something interesting would happen, it would be resolved in under an hour, and then everything would go back to normal. Then, same time next week the cycle would repeat. It’s how it would be for about twenty-five weeks of the year; we’d get summers off, and we’d have Christmas off. Well, we’d celebrate it a few weeks early, I guess.
“Also, back then, people would laugh at my jokes.
“Now though? I don’t even know what’s going on. I’ll be interacting with these kids having the same problems for six, ten or fifteen hours in a row. Then I won’t see them for like two years. And when they come back? They’ve got the same problems! Sometimes, even though it’s two years later, they come back on the next day, and I gotta pretend that little Timmy isn’t a foot taller than he was earlier in the week.
“I don’t know man. It feels like I’m trapped in a movie, except that never ends.
“Is this purgatory?
“I will say, though, the lighting in my office is less severe; It used to be like living in the produce aisle of the Kroger’s.”