Workaholic

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• on duty
• workaholic
• watch your back
• loosen up

• clock out
• work day
• a crime scene
• chilly

• up tight
• chill out

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When most people are done with work, they clock out, go home, and don’t think about work until the next morning. But some jobs sort of follow you home. Police officers, for instance, have such an intense job that it can be hard to stop thinking like a police officer when the work day is over.

When you think of addiction, you usually think of drugs, but people can also be addicted to work. When she was working undercover, Ella was working anytime she hung out with Mason. Will she be able to stop acting like a cop now that she and Mason are going to be friends? Watch as Ella treats Mason’s bedroom like a a crime scene.

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Dialog

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Mason

Ella

Mason:  Yeah, I just need to grab a jacket because it’s getting kind of chilly out, even though it’s summertime already, but what are you gonna do?

Ella:  Yeah, totally. It’s…

Mason:  I don’t know, what do you think? Does this one look good?

Ella:  Yeah, that looks great.

Mason:  What are you, uh…What’s going on? You checking out my stuff?

Ella:  Just stretching.

Mason:  Stretching? Yeah, stretching in my drawers?

Ella:  Yeah.

Mason:  Looking for illicit material?

Ella:  Maybe, a little.

Mason:  You’re not gonna find anything. You gotta chill out.

Ella:  I feel like I’m on duty all the time, so I just…

Mason:  Have a seat. Have a seat. Have a seat. You are a workaholic. I think it’s pretty clear.

Ella:  No.

Mason:  No, no, no. I think it’s pretty clear.

Ella:  I think that’s an overexaggeration is what that is.

Mason:  You gotta learn that it’s OK to be off duty sometimes. You gotta punch the card. You know, go off the clock.

Ella:  It’s just so hard. My mindset is always in work. Especially being undercover, you’re just always in this other state of mind.

Mason:  I mean, I can understand that. I can understand. But we’re cool, right? I don’t want to feel like I gotta watch my back all the time because I got some cop and I can’t loosen up, ‘cause then I’m gonna be all tight all the time and you’re gonna be up tight.

Ella:  That’s true. I don’t want you to be weird.

Mason:  It’s a bad situation.

Ella:  It’s uncomfortable.

Mason:  OK. Can we, like go off the clock? No more workaholic when we’re hanging out?

Ella:  I’ll try.

Mason:  Alright.

Ella:  I promise. I promise.

Mason:  Seriously, I need that jacket though. Alright, let’s go.

Ella:  Let’s go.

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