|
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
|
|
Assault!
|
At work we have a small refrigerator in our shop that the guys in our group use to keep lunch stuff and things like flux and adhesives that need to be stored cold. Being too cheap to go buy myself lunch every day, and too disorganized to pack one the night before at home, every week or two I run to the supermarket down the street and buy some random sandwich stuff and some bread to fill the shop fridge so that I have something to eat. I ate out the last of my stash last week, so I ran to the store at lunchtime today to restock. As I pull into a parking space, my cell-O-phone rings. I answer it. It is a vendor returning a call I had in to him earlier in the day. As I am talking, a car pulls into the space next to me on my passenger's side. I don't pay much attention, and sit in my car and transact my business with the guy on the phone. I finish up on the phone, put the phone back in it's handy holster, open the door and lock up my car. Just as I begin to step away, I hear someone yelling AAHHHHHHH-OOOOOOOOOOWWWW! It is a woman's voice nearby someplace, but was not a "someone is trying to kill me" sort of yell, more like someone who just bashed their toe or something. So I quickly look around, and see it is coming from the car that had pulled in next to mine. In the car is a woman sitting in the driver's seat and directly behind her in the back seat is a kid's car seat. Standing in up in back is (presumably) her kid, who is maybe 4 or 5, who I assume had released him or her self from the car seat. The kid is standing up, directly behind her and has both hands clamped in her hair. There are little tufts of hair sticking out between his fingers. And he is pulling back so hard that her neck looks stretched and her head is jammed back tight against the headrest. Her arms are flailing about a bit and she starts yelling at the kid to let go. I briefly wondered if I should smash a window and throttle the kid, but instead just stood there and laughed. It was funny. It all only lasted maybe 10 seconds, but boy did that woman look cranky. She shook the kid off and I continued on my way, undetected I think.
When I saw her in the store about 10 minutes later the kid looked pretty subdued. The woman's hair looked a bit rumpled and she still looked a bit crabby. I resisted the urge to compliment her on her hair style.
I laughed again.
|
|
thus voiced The A, Mistah @ 6:21 PM
|
|
+
|
|
|
Monday, October 12, 2009
|
|
Baby just LOVES.....
|
...AQUATIC RODENTS!!!!
But then, who could blame her? They are just so cuddly and cute.
|
|
thus voiced The A, Mistah @ 12:29 PM
|
|
+
|
|
|
Friday, October 09, 2009
|
|
New edition of "Stupid people in Public"
|
So I'm at work a few days ago. I say "Hi" to a guy that works in another department as we pass each other in the hall. He is a young guy, easy to deal with and generally in a good mood. His youth is a bit too obvious at times, but not really in a bad way. Anyhow, he returns my greeting but sounds to be talking a bit funny, vaguely like someone holding the end of their tongue while trying to talk. I don't give it much thought beyond figuring he has gum in his mouth or something, and keep walking. Ten minutes later, back at my office, my boss comes into my room laughing. He asks me:
"Did you talk to Joe* today?"
"Just said Hi, why?"
"Did he sound funny?"
"Yeah, I guess so. What's going on?"
My boss proceeds to tell me how Joe apparently was having trouble with his truck. The battery was getting weak, so he figured he needed a new one. At break time he ran to the parts store and bought a battery, came back to work and installed it in the parking lot. So far, so good. Joe then put the old one into the bed of his truck so that he could return it to the parts store to get the core charge refunded. Arriving back at the parts place, Joe notes that the battery has fallen over and there is a puddle of liquid in his truck bed. Apparently unsure what said liquid is, he dips his finger in it and tastes it(!). He reports that it tasted very strong and bad, and that it instantly began to burn very badly.
No kidding.
So now he is talking funny due to the sulfuric acid burn on the end of his tongue.
* Not his real name. Names changed to protect the stupid, but I'm not sure why I should bother.
|
|
thus voiced The A, Mistah @ 8:08 PM
|
|
+
|
|
|
August 2004
September 2004
October 2004
November 2004
December 2004
January 2005
February 2005
March 2005
April 2005
May 2005
June 2005
July 2005
August 2005
September 2005
October 2005
November 2005
December 2005
January 2006
February 2006
March 2006
April 2006
May 2006
June 2006
July 2006
August 2006
September 2006
October 2006
November 2006
December 2006
January 2007
February 2007
March 2007
April 2007
May 2007
June 2007
July 2007
August 2007
September 2007
October 2007
November 2007
December 2007
January 2008
February 2008
March 2008
April 2008
May 2008
June 2008
July 2008
August 2008
September 2008
October 2008
November 2008
December 2008
January 2009
February 2009
March 2009
April 2009
May 2009
June 2009
July 2009
August 2009
October 2009
November 2009
December 2009
January 2010
February 2010
March 2010
May 2010
July 2010
August 2010
September 2010
October 2010
November 2010
December 2010
January 2011
October 2011
November 2011
December 2011
January 2012
June 2012
July 2012
|
