#consider….. parallel where buck has just gotten off a similarly crazy shift and he falls into bed at tommy’s#and we hear a helicopter flying by through the window… buck smiles and closes his eyes (via @beefcakekinard)

so here for tommy’s Duh Doy moment the week after he introduces evan to several co-workers over post-shift drinks and they get all cagey and weird, which is unusual because they’ve met tommy’s boyfriends before, he’s been out for a while, and finally it’s martinez who is like, Look! buck seems like a nice guy, but after everything you’ve told us about your boyfriend named evan, and we saw you kissing buck outside, we just hope you know what you’re doing, man.

tommy would be charmed enough that his co-workers are offended on behalf of his boyfriend named evan, who they think tommy is cheating on with some charming homewrecker named buck, to look past the fact that they think tommy’s that much of an asshole.

he used to have sherpa-lined collars……… back when we were a real country…….

i want tommy and buck being hoe era eddie’s wingmen so badly. tommy has probably had a weird, closeted hoe era he followed up with an occasionally remarkable, frequently exhausting grindr hoe era, and learned a lot about respecting himself when slutting his way through several los angeles boroughs, and buck, well. he’d probably be like, “i’ve been out of the game for a while” casual stretch “but yeah I can probably give you a few pointers” then proceeds to lay out the weirdest, most complicated hook up rules that eddie’s never heard of that he categorizes by dating app, location and day of the week. they go out to bars together, the three of them, where buck explains with zero self awareness that all the girls will feel sorry for him as a third wheel, especially when he starts getting with handsy with tommy on his third drink, and tommy will look at eddie judgmentally like, oh you’re wearing that? which eddie thinks is pretty rich coming from a guy who is wearing the third color of the same shirt he’s been wearing every time eddie’s seen him this week (because evan likes it), and they’ll snipe at each other over wings and pitchers at some sports bar fight night and send eddie up to get them another round of beers at the bar whenever there’s someone remotely cute, buck feeding him the worst pick-up lines he can think of and tommy feeding him some seemingly smoother lines he definitely stole from something he caught on a hallmark network marathon, then the both of them giving eddie double thumbs up and cheesing hard when he actually goes for it

i can’t imagine the people coming up with these theories have ever worked somewhere awful, if they’ve worked at all. look, i’ve worked for some truly miserable people, and made friends in those miserable places anyway, because we were all fucking going through it. if tomorrow my friend who now manages the old office i used to work at regaled me with stories about every day being an ice cream party where the office sings kumbaya together when i remember it as the place where a partner spat at me and called me a retard to my face and a senior staff member got a slap on the wrist for making sexual and racist comments about my friend’s wife and every day i cried under my desk, yeah, i’d probably be sad about it in a complicated way too. but if my friend who is the office manager now told me that since it was better, would i be interested in coming back? i would say no way in hell. one time i accidentally door dashed some dumplings to that office instead of my current building and i ran over and had concierge go up to the floor where they had left the dumplings by the office door because i couldn’t imagine even for a second standing in that awful hallway ever again or looking through those doors. you can be sad about missing something but never want it back.

you can move on with your life and make a new and better life and then when the remaining good bits of your old life come knocking, you can appreciate them and the cute new guy who maybe you are so happy you never worked with directly under the same roof because the HR violations would have been constant and recurring and probably felt like a punishment for wanting something too much that you didn’t think you were allowed to have, and you’re a better person now that can treat him right in a way you never could back then, all because you left.