Pancake in the parking lot (Luanne flattens Maya)

Luanne stared at me with her big, ocean tinted eyes. It was a little bit unnerving to know
that the girl that the entire workplace knew as the most popular, funny, and charismatic
individual there was also the one that was hell bent on making my life miserable. She
had risen to the ranks of assistant manager in the warehouse office rather quickly and was beloved by the entire
roster of workers. On birthdays, Luanne would always bring in cupcakes for whoever was
celebrating that day, except for me. I got no special announcement in front of the office,
no cupcakes, and was made to work late.

During the company picnic we had a softball game, of course Luanne made sure I was the last
to be picked and when it came to be my time to be picked, she "conveniently" lost the ball
and made me be the ball in it's place. That's another story for another time, however.

Luanne hasn't liked me since day one. We started the exact same day and I was supposed to work
with Luanne on a project. We came together and actually worked as decent teammates. We had to
do a report on the companies earnings and we nailed it! I had the entire project on my thumb drive
and was to bring it to work for a presentation. Like always, I was running late and in a rush to
drink my coffee and drive, I spilled my coffee on the thumb drive ruining it and all the contents.
Of course me and Luanne got scathing reviews from our bosses and were made to look completely
incompetent in front of our entire workplace. Luanne was able to bat her eyes and talk her way
out of it but I got the brunt of the punishment. Fast forward to today where Luanne is second
in charge and I'm still in the same position that I started.

But it was Sunday, my only off day this week since Luanne made me work every Saturday so I had no
time to dwell on work issues. That is until I saw Luanne coming out of the grocery store. I looked
for a place to possibly hide but no luck, she was headed right for me.


"Hey look it's the grunt" she chortled at her amusement of the nickname that she's called me for
months now.

She continued her beratement of me, "I didn't know they let you of the house during the day. Try
not to scare the towns people with your face."

I rolled my eyes, I was in no mood for pettiness today. I tried to ignore her and walk around her
but she just stepped to the left to continue blocking my path.

"Did I say you could leave, Grunt? I'm your boss, whether we're in the office or not, you do what
I say, when I say."

She pointed her finger in my face as she spoke and eventually pushed my forehead with her hands.

"Don't touch me!" I belted out to what I thought was aggressive but did nothing but made her laugh
even harder.

"Oh look who grew a pair overnight! I touch my property, and that's exactly what you are to me,
my property. I own you at work, and I own you here as well. As a matter of fact. Carry my groceries
to my car."

She pushed her 4 bags into my stomach making me stumble.

"Here you go. You can be my little pack mule."

A crowd of people had now gathered around the parking lot and were watching the fireworks, most were
laughing at Luanne's ruthlessness and cheering for her to continue my abuse.

"I'm not about to carry your groceries" I mumbled weakly. Luanne always intimidated me and this was no
different.


"Yes you are. You're gonna carry them and you're gonna like it! I'd hate to have to use force."

She grinned her mischievous grin and I knew exactly what that meant. Getting into a fist fight
was not in my chill Sunday plans. I rolled my eyes and reluctantly grabbed the groceries and
began heading to her huge, red pickup truck.

As we walked toward her truck Luanne continued to berate me to which I paid no mind, I just wanted to
get this whole ordeal over with. As I approached her truck I kept ignoring her insults, I lowered the
gate and began to hurriedly put the groceries in the bed of the truck.
Bag after bag I tossed into the truck causing Luanne to raise her voice, "Be careful with my groceries
pack mule!"

Enough was enough. I tossed the final bag onto the hard concrete and pushed Luanne as hard as I could.
She was clearly way more sturdier than i was because she barely moved only taking one step back. A cocky
smirk appeared onto her face and fear took over my body. I'm 5'9 but Luanne stood about 3 inches taller
than me and as she took a step toward me I instinctively took a step back.

"Luanne...I didn't mean to-"

Luanne cut me off and grabbed my left arm, twisting it into an armbar. Pain immediately pierced my elbow and
shoulder causing me to cry out in pain, Luanne had me in a helpless position and she knew it.

"Let me go!" I shouted. "My arm! Please" I pleaded with her to no avail.

Luanne was just having fun with me at this point, she playfully put the arm she wasn't torturing me with up
to her chin, "Hmmmm..I don't think I want to" she said with a teasing tone as she wrenched my arm again.

"Luanne Please!!! You're going to break my arm" I couldn't believe that my sworn enemy had gotten the upper
hand on me and was now embarrassing me in front of the small grocery store crowd.

Luanne just giggled and torqued my arm again, "You can beg better than that!"

My arm popped and I just knew my arm was broken, "Oh my God!!" Please no!!" The pain was unbearable at this
point.

"Please let me go! I'm sorry!"

Luanne, apparently bored with me at this point, kneed me twice in the ribs causing me to double over in pain
and as I was holding my surely bruised ribs she elbowed me in the back of neck causing me to drop to the ground
writhing in pain. I was holding my throbbing arm as pain was shooting through my ribs and the pain in the back
of my neck was definitely going to have me going to the chiropractor within the next week.

I laid on the ground, beaten, in pain, and humiliated as Luanne looked down at me smiling. She chuckled,
"Next time you'll stay in your place. I can't wait to tell everyone at work about this!"

Luanne burst out laughing and walked toward her truck which was behind me. To add insult to injury she stepped
on my stomach to get to her truck pushing all the air out of my body. I coughed and sputtered at the last
blow to my body (and ego) as I laid on the ground and tried to process what just happened to me.


Breathing hard and lying on my back I heard her boisterous engine crank to life and saw the reverse lights
come on. Luanne screamed out the window to the watching crowd, "Hey guys watch this. I know a little secret
about Maya here."

I could see Luanne's perfectly white teeth smiling in the mirror as the engine accelerated the truck towards me!

"Secret?! What was she talking about?"

"Anybody got a spatula" Luanne chortled as the truck approached me. I was in too much pain to move with any
vigor. I tried to back away from the truck as it's shadow engulfed me, "No! No! NO!" I screamed, but it was
too late. The truck overtook my body pressing me into the concrete. My body went flat as the truck rolled over
me causing a deafening crunch.

Unable to move my body I tried with all my might and was able to lift my head but the rest of my body was
completely immobile.

"wh-what happened???!" I asked as the crowd gathered around what, to them anyway, was a human pancake.

Luanne looked down at the results of her work, me reduced to a life sized paper doll!

"Here someone take my phone and get a pic! I gotta show our coworkers this" Luanne was having the time of
her life and apparently the crowd was as well because they immediately obliged.

Luanne crouched over my wrecked form and posed over me like I was a prop in photoshoot as an onlooker
carefully positioned the phone.

** Above picture taken**

Luanne couldn't resist snapping one more joke at my expense, "Enjoy your shopping, Maya. I hear they have a great
deal on flatbread here." The small crowd erupted in laughter as they finally slowly dispersed after of course taking
more pictures of my humbling experience. One by one they stepped over me leaving me flattened in the
filthy parking lot for hours.