Urgent Cynicism

As I left, a few scattered employees stood around… a couple of kids on the second floor gabbed while folding towels, with flip irritation in each’s tone of voice about how rude the firefighters were. On the first floor a gathering of rent-a-cop security guards stand in a huddle, all joking around and nervously laughing about the whole thing and how silly it was that just a dumb sauna-malfunction set the alarm off.

An employee