#menial

Plinth

Sitting on the bus

Halfway home, headphones in

Try to ignore the brown haired woman talking on the phone as if declaring her whims to the world

Believe me, broken dreams never felt so real

Than the grey haired man draped across the seat beside me

He's frozen his mind trying to live out his fantasy

Abstain from hoping

Time does not pass without motive, and only hurts you to prove a point

Halfway home, empty your brain

Exhaustion comes from weakness of the soul

You are his long-suffering community service officer so it’s your job to find him useful chores to do. The tasks are menial and dull and Loki is often tempted to speed them up with magic. He also likes to do things his way.  The others in the group resent him at first because of what he did to their city, but soon they find they can rely on him to keep things interesting.

After a day of painting the lines on the roads, the island of Manhattan wakes one morning to the traffic chaos because Loki finished the job in the night by magic and was rather creative. After that the team are put a simpler painting job - Brooklyn Bridge -, until it’s suddenly found finished, in an eye-catching shade of green.

Loki is just too efficient at litter collection. He puts a homing spell on trash so that it migrates naturally to the dump.  But people keep getting hit by flying candy wrappers, and professional litter collectors are up in arms that he’s stealing their work.

📚✨ Word of the Day: MENIAL ✨📚 

Menial (adjective) Pronunciation: MEE-nee-uhl Meaning: Work that is repetitive, low-skill, or considered unimportant—often requiring little training. 

🔎 Examples: 

Henry started with menial tasks before earning a promotion.

Nan was frustrated by being assigned only menial duties.

💡 Menial doesn’t mean worthless; it describes the nature of the task, not the value of the person doing it. Every job has dignity, even if the task itself is considered basic or routine. 

🧠 Synonyms:

Routine

Mundane

Low-level

Unskilled 

👇 Use menial in a sentence below.

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