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🧹 The Day We All Got Assigned Personal Clean-Up Crewseing Human

📌 An Absurdist Tale of Public Embarrassments, Emotional Janitors, and the Cost of B

By Ahmet Kıvanç DemirkıranPublished 10 months ago • 2 min read
“Some carried brooms, some carried silence—but all carried what we were too scared to feel.”

📌 Introduction: What If Every Mess You Made… Was Cleaned by Someone Else?

We spill. We break. We cry in public, trip over nothing, send the wrong text to the wrong person.

Now imagine:

For every mistake, emotional outburst, or awkward moment—you’re assigned a personal clean-up crew.

Not just for coffee spills.

But for emotions. Reputations. Decisions. Regret.

This is the story of the day the world outsourced shame, chaos, and consequences.

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1️⃣ Meet the Emotional Janitors

At exactly 9:00 a.m., loudspeakers across every city crackled:

📢 “Attention citizens! You’ve been matched with your Personal Clean-Up Crew. They will now follow you everywhere.”

Suddenly, people found themselves shadowed by uniformed specialists in matching jumpsuits, each with titles like:

• “Regret Eradicator”

• “Awkwardness Buffer”

• “Social Media Misstep Manager”

• “Overthinking Technician”

Their job?

To immediately erase, explain, or distract from whatever mess their human made.

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2️⃣ Life with a Human Maintenance Team

A man tripped in public.

His crew shouted, “Choreographed!” and began breakdancing around him.

A woman cried in an elevator.

Her crew blasted “Eye of the Tiger” and handed out tissues with motivational quotes.

Someone accidentally called their boss “mom.”

The Reputation Team created a viral trend: #CallYourBossMomDay.

Even internal messes were handled:

• Anxiety Crew set up lawn chairs in the brain and whispered, “We got this.”

• Guilt Control sent automated apology bouquets.

• Procrastination Teams literally carried their humans to deadlines.

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3️⃣ The Weird Economics of Cleaning Humans

Naturally, capitalism got involved.

People started comparing crews:

“Oh, you got the Deluxe Guilt Absorber? Lucky.”

“Mine only covers minor awkward silences…”

“You have an overthinking specialist? I just have the intern.”

Luxury cleanup services emerged:

• “ShameAway Pro” for elite scandal removal.

• “CryWipe” for instant tear-proofing during bad dates.

• “MindSweep” subscriptions to remove post-argument spirals.

And of course, influencers flaunted their crews in aesthetic uniforms.

One app, WipeMe, let you rent extra crews for emotional emergencies.

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4️⃣ The Existential Crisis Hits

Soon, people forgot how to feel alone.

They stopped asking themselves:

• “Why do I keep doing that?”

• “What does this say about me?”

• “Should I… grow from this?”

The crews absorbed it all.

They became crutches. Shields. Excuses.

Until one day… a child asked:

“If someone else cleans my mess…

then what do I learn?”

And just like that, people began to fire their crews.

One by one, the Emotional Janitors disappeared—smiling quietly, pushing their wheeled regret bins into the sunset.

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📌 Final Thoughts: Maybe the Mess Matters

✔ Being human means messing up.

✔ Feeling shame, regret, or awkwardness teaches us to evolve.

✔ Maybe growth comes not from being cleaned up—but from sitting in the spill.

💡 Final Thought:

🧹 If someone else always carries your weight, you’ll never realize how strong you can be.

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About the Creator

Ahmet KĹvanç DemirkĹran

As a technology and innovation enthusiast, I aim to bring fresh perspectives to my readers, drawing from my experience.

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