Cool tf idea:
Last night you were turned into a plant person. Your skin is green and smooth, your hair has weaved itself into leaf-like formations, fine, whatever. Doesn’t mean you can just skip work the next day.
So you’re at work, and things are fine and normal, until an angry-looking customer approaches you. “I’m sure I ordered tomatoes on my sandwich, but there aren’t any!” they say, holding their tomato-less sandwich open for you to see. Maybe you did mess it up, or maybe they forgot to include it in their order, it doesn’t really matter. As you’re apologizing to them, though, a bizarre sensation befalls a spot on your arm. You watch, speechless, as two appendages suddenly sprout from that spot. On one of them, a bright red tomato grows and ripens over the course of a few seconds. On the other, a razor-sharp leaf appears, and slices the tomato once it’s ripened, the pieces falling perfectly into place in the customer’s sandwich. Weirder still is the fact that they seem to accept this in stride, taking their seat and eating their meal. They leave a glowing review… apparently it was the most delicious sandwich they’ve ever had. Huh??
Throughout the day, these kinds of things keep happening. A coworker complaining about a sunburn? Your neck grows aloe vera leaves, and they casually break them off to treat their skin. There’s a bug in the store? A flytrap emerges from under your hair, catching it a few minutes later. None of the changes hurt, but they feel weird, and they’re completely involuntary. And the fact that nobody says anything about them kinda creeps you out…
When you’re walking home from work that day, though, something truly absurd happens. You see your neighbor fretting over their cat, who seems to have gotten itself stuck in a tree… and wouldn’t you know it, you just so happen to be standing right under it! You’re quite literally rooted to the spot as your feet tear through your shoes, splitting apart and digging into the ground. Dizziness overwhelms you as your stiffening torso lengthens, making you taller and taller. Your skin is turning hard, like bark, and you can’t bend anything below your neck… your arms outstretched, unmoving… additional protrusions punch through your shirt and your pants… you can’t even speak. You feel some kind of weight… it’s your neighbor, using your new branches like a ladder, climbing up to reach their poor kitty. Once they’re both safely on the ground, you begin to shrink down into your humanoid shape, your ruined clothing being the only evidence that anything odd took place. Once your roots turn back into feet and release from the earth, you stumble home… What else could you do?
Helping people is great and all, but surely you’ll change back from being a plant eventually, right?
