Bad dream last night that's just... bleh...

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I was working late at a job I've never had - a pizza place. After a long profitable day, it was just me, one other co-worker i didn't recognize, and the boss who was a strange combination of my dad and one of my old bosses (who ran a retail mailing/shipping business when not in dreams >>). I was running a few minutes late, but that's alright since there's lots of stuff to do.

A few minutes after closing, my brother William steps in to remind me of some plans we had, and a bunch of friends are waiting in the car. Oh, sweet, I got a ride waiting for me this time. Good stuff. I tell him it's just gonna be a few moments, he says alright, and ask the rhetorical question of '...how did you get in here?' I forgot to lock the front door... oh well, just one closing step out of order, no biggie.

And then I go to take the trash out. Along the way, my brother Walter is there for some reason with some friends, meeting me by pure coincidence. I say 'hi', tell them I'm busy, but we chat for just a few minutes before I go back to work. Delayed by only a little more... but my boss is starting to look a little upset, even though he's not saying anything. Walter even keeps on chatting with afterwards when I go back in the store, and he walks in the front door. I'd forgotten to lock it still and I have to chase him out to let me finish stuff.

Then I realize that I forgotten one bag of trash -somehow-. I grab that, practically run out back to toss it into the dumpster... on the way back, I notice that there are some freaky thick spider web strands besides the dumpster. Crap, ok, good thing I didn't touch it before. I turn around to go back to the store and there's this HUGE bridge of spiderwebs along the tops of two trees that I have to pass between to go back to the store, and the only reason I see these is because they're moving... there's an unseen spider of some huge size actively constructing it.

I go out of my way to get out of the way of the web bridge, but then I see the web break a little bit. Hey, it's stopped being worked on, so instead I'll just quickly run under it. When I go to run, a huge chunk of the web bridge snaps and the strands lazily floats down towards me. Crap, crap, crap, crap... a few of the strands actually hit me, and I have to seriously pull away to get free, tugging and moving the entire thing in my struggles. Even moved some tree branches from how sticky the stuff was. I actually had -one- more strand on me when I saw-but-not-really-saw something big and fast moving along that single taunt string of web, so I just ditch my jacket to get free and slam my way into the store.

When I get inside, I see my unknown co-worker and my boss just sitting there. I hastefuly ask what's left for the closing procedure, and thaaaat's when the boss gives me an 'Are you serious?' look. He begins to give me a serious talk about responsibilities, how I should be prioritizing time on the job and less with friends when there's still work to do, and yadda yadda, really tearing into me.

During the talk, my brother William peeks his head into the front door again to check if everything is alright. I -still- had forgotten to lock that damn front door, AND I see behind him that the sun is rising, shining light on the next day's customers.

I start to totally freak out, breaking a pair of expensive sunglasses that I apparently owned and wear at night (...?), having spent the entire night goofing off instead of getting the store closed up and being chased by giant spiders... which upon realizing how freaky that sounds, I woke up.

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...yyyyeah.