There are moments here and there when you're covered in nuts. Nuts on your face, in your mouth, and in your palms. However, those nuts can't stay there forever, and eventually we move on nut-less! This is a metaphor regarding what I've been going through over the last couple of weeks. I am happy to say that I am now nut-less.

I never thought it would feel so good to be growing back into my old self! I started naturally cultivating a comedic spice to my existence, just like I used to. In other words, antics are back! It's just like what I used to tell my friends in high-school, "we are men of comedy". It would always get really quiet whenever I said that. My statements are powerful.

As of late, my co-worker Dae-Sean and I have been getting restless while scanning. These scans take a long time and we get our sequences planned relatively fast at this point in the game. We started what almost feels like a call and response game using a crusty old man voice. Out of nowhere, one of us will bust out a random statement in this voice and it usually just goes from there. For example Dae-Sean will say something in the voice like "Huh? What? I'm stupid" and this week I responded with, "We used to eat the circus peanuts". After that, Dae-Sean said "They used to let us touch the candy barrel once a year, circus peanuts included". I don't remember how long we went on about circus peanuts that night. But one thing I know is that when something is great, it needs to be taken to the next level.

In our department, there is a candy drawer. It's normally filled with stuff that people actually like i.e. KitKats, Reeses, Butterfingers etc. Dupree normally buys all this candy, and I've come to find he probably enjoys all the attention the nurses give him regarding the stocked candy drawer waiting for them when they bring a patient down. A couple months back, I stocked the candy drawer full of ginger chews (Gin-Gins) and it became an on-going gag between me and the coworkers. When I stocked the drawer with gingers I didn't really have a reason, this time around I actually had a reason. The first reason being the relevance of the jokes with Dae-Sean, and the second, to mess up Dupree's game with the nurses. I wanted those nurses to open that drawer and see circus peanuts packed in zip-lock bags, grandma style. After clocking in, I walked into the department, assertively opened the candy drawer, and flipped a walmart bag upside down. When the contents of the bag were still unknown, one of the assistants said "Oh you brought candy!" then as she saw zip-lock bags full of circus peanuts fall into the drawer she went "Oh....". Hey, when you have big dreams, you might dissapoint a person or two. I kicked the drawer shut and smiled. Dae-Sean and I were laughing about this as I was painfully eating a stiff sugary cardboard circus nut.

Later that day, I had just gotten done with my last scan ready to clock out, and then Dupree walked in. He did his sigh of relief randomly as usual (he just does this there's no relief or underlying context) and then he placed two sacks of real candy on the desk and said "can you do the honors boss?". I started getting nervous, I looked at him and I said "this drawer right?" pointing to the drawer with all the gummy candies, even though I knew damn well he was referring to the drawer I dumped the circus nut load in. He said "no the big drawer boss". I opened the drawer and I watched his eyes get real wide as a confused look took shape across his whole face. "Oh, oh, looks like someone already bought something?" to buffer whatever he was about to say next, I went "Circus peanuts?!" just so I would come off as confused as him. He grabbed a bag and looked at me with the most serious and concerned expression I had ever seen in my life. "This a germ hazard!" he said in a very stern tone. I just looked at him with a blank expression. "This a germ hazard!" he said again. "You see what I'm sayin? Because the hands in the bag... You see what I'm sayin?". At this point I saw it was 11pm and I wanted to get outta there. Dupree only got more serious, "Who bought these?" I just shrugged my shoulder and mumbled some nothings. "Who bought th- was it Dae-Sean?" I looked at him with an ignorant expression and said "I really don't know, I didn't." That just slipped out, I was not originally planning on this situation getting pinned on someone else, but I also didn't plan on Dupree getting so intense about the whole thing. "Man... I'm just gonna have ta put these in the breakroom because these a germ hazard you see what I'm sayin?". As he went to escort the nuts into the breakroom I slipped out of there and clocked out. I was laughing so hard about the situation as a whole on the way home! I really hope he didn't harass one of my co-workers about this after his shift, hopefully he forgot about the whole thing. I texted Dae-Sean about the whole situation and he said that I should buy some more.