New friends, Old friends, Lets just BE friends

I had an idea about this post a few weeks ago. I was helping my partner, and realized that we have become "friends" for another better term. it wasn't always this way thought. when she first became my partner, i HATED it. almost quit my job (oh how naive i was!) but i stuck through it because i have an amazing set of bosses. Pretty much they told me just to DEAL with it. Do my job, and i don't have to like her. so i did. i think for the first few weeks we didn't speak to each other at ALL! then it was one or two syllable words, or grunts. It all kinda changed one day when out press was down, and our boss, Billy, was sick of us not getting along. he MADE us work together, while him and the other guy went to go do work. He said that we would have to get used to working together because we NEEDED to be a TEAM. So he sticks us on this job, where we had to use the dry-ice machine.. its a machine similar to a sandblaster that spits out dry ice. its used to chip off ink. We actually bonded over it... you see, dry ice is AMAZINGLY fun to play with. Oh the possibilities! you can freeze things INSTANTLY. you can blow up bottles. you can stick a rubber glove in there and shatter it..... well, we were messing around. don't know what i was thinking, but there we were with the nozzle, pointed into the hopper which is FULL of dry ice. and I pull the trigger... BAD idea. we were showered with dry ice pellets... and if you don't know, dry ice BURNS! (since its just frozen Co2) well, that was the turning point. After that, we had that story about how we were two dummies looking for cheap entertainment.. now, this didn't make us the "OMG we are so BFF!" but i learned that hating this person isn't going to solve anything. in fact, it just lets all the other people out there win.. so we started talking more.. a "hey how you doing" here and a "could you help me" there. pretty soon, we became pretty good friends. enough so if she called in, she would let me know, and vice versa.. And its strange, but it goes to show, that you just gotta let things go, and be nice to people. Because if you would have asked me a year ago if we would be friends i would have said "oh HELL NO!" but now, thanks to the bosses who, well, didn't want to work with the girls, i have found a new friend.. so i if i hear something stupid on the news, or if i think of a funny question, i can go into work and tell her... and she always has something weird on her mind as well... its cool. and i like it. :)