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Oh yeah, you know that song, uh huh...but that spider isn't what this is all about today. Nope it ain't.
I was sitting out on the front porch reading what I thought was going to be my subject for the 700-1500 word paper due today in Criminology, when I heard the big older model car lumbering up the hill. I looked up to see a light spicey mustard colored car going past slowly. The driver had that "I've been soooooo radiated" hair going on, long wisps here and there on an otherwise bald head. I don't know if it were a man or woman, but the individual looked straight ahead as the car went by slowly, one hand on the wheel and the other...
The other hand held a cigarette aloft...kinda Marlena Dietrich style, the smoke curling upward in a thin gray ribbon. The feeling I had was something akin to eerie. The kind of feeling one suspects a character may have in a scary movie, it was rather like watching Death drive by. I thought about it for minutes before going back to the reading at hand.
Even though I've been at home, po po pitiful me, SICK as DAMMIT for a week...I have gotten news from (da ta da da) the restaurant. Holy shit, batman, them folks is straight up crazy!
Okay
Okay
I'm composed now. Sheesh, what is the deal with some folks anyway? Is it possible that some children are just born...evil?
Inbreeding maybe?
Out of date baby food?
ddt in the mac and cheese?
That little gal that helped herself to O.W.'s tips a while back, prompting O.W. to give the girl what-for, to which the girl responded by 1. going home right then and there, and 2. Calling her Mamaw, who is Alice's ex-sister-in-law, making the girl Alice's grand niece or something.
O.W. held her position, telling the Mamaw who, true to East Tennessee tradition (where women over 40 dye their greying hair Very blonde, Very Red, or Very Black), dyed her very frizzy hair very black. Not a pleasant sight at all. Anyway, O.W. told her that, left alone, the girl would realize that taking tips she hasn't earned can be a painful experience. The girl developed a grudge. She made caustic remarks about O.W. when she wasn't around, and then claimed to have set O.W. up, with the starting drawer for O.W.'s shift, with an extra $20. Well, the girl may have intended to do just that, but the three or four cell phone calls she received, and made, while counting the drawer out, caused her to forget to carry it through. Hence the starting drawer was right on the money, and the girl's count was $20 short. Her pocket sucked it up is what happened. But...
The girl told Alice that she had put it in the drawer, and O.W. didn't give it back as an over. Alice took the $20 out of O.W.'s pay, and O.W. addressed that situation in such a way as to prompt Alice to repay the money to O.W. forthwith and with apologies. The girl was somewhat distressed by this as she was then obligated to pay Alice the $20, and at a disadvantage because she didn't realize that Alice had forward the little note, alledging O.W.'s dishonesty and debt, to O.W.
O.W. stopped speaking to, and acknowledging the girl's existence.
Ah well, the girl simply couldn't bear it, so when O.W. was out for a week, the girl told Alice that O.W. had a new roommate and was planning to quit the restaurant.
She also told Alice that she would like to pick up O.W.'s shifts.
Alice assigned her two of O.W.'s days next week, but called O.W. to get her position on all of it. O.W. didn't fuss too much about having only two days next week, since being sick and all, but she declined, even if it were to teach the girl a lesson in honesty, to give her any more than that. Alice said she would return O.W. to full shift the following week.
In the meantime, one of O.W.'s regular customers called her at home asking why in the world she had referenced him to someone in the restaurant with obsenities. Needless to say she was moderately shocked, and somewhat angry. She called the cook and insisted that she demonstrate the same respect for O.W. that had been demonstrated to her by O.W. The cook denied having said such a thing. O.W. also mentioned, very casually, that she wouldn't be working a full week this week because she didn't want to over do it after being so sick, and hoped Alice was able to find someone to cover third shift so she could be off. The cook sounded surprised. O.W. could hear the wheels turning in the cook's silence, and smiled. She had successfully stolen the thunder out of the girl's plan and actions. In fact, when O.W. returns to work tomorrow night, she plans to look at the schedule expectantly, even hopefully, and upon seeing the girl's name on two of her days will exclaim (not too enthusiastically) her gratitude to the girl for working those nights, which she wanted off to continue her recovery (one mustn't over do when recovering from an illness), and dedicating a little extra time to classwork. =)
A body could write a dang soap opera about that joint, eh?
Me? I'm almost all better. Yay! *happy face*
I have that cough syrup by my bed. There aren't any commercials about it, but if you ever have a nagging cough that hurts your head when you cough...get this stuff, it works really REALLY good. Delsym
and it didn't make me sleepy.
I did two 700-1500 word papers today. One for Criminal Justice on Jerry Brudos and Bill Benefiel, and the other comparing the court structures and systems of Tennessee and Oklahoma, based on a classmate's paper. I am Tennessee, of course. *ahem* With emphasis on the Juvenile justice system. Velly intellesting stuff, Natasha. My grade so far (we are beginning week 5...eeeeek, today!) is an A in both classes.
Seeeeee...it was that dreaded awful horrible tragically difficult math....shhhhhh that made things so damned complicated and stressful.
Sadie and Sadie, the two female spiders with webs at my front door, have allowed their webs to become cluttered, which is rather unsightly. I mean, right there at the front door...yanno? So I told them they have to clean house tonight. Gotta lay down the law around here!
*whew* glad that's over with.
And this day...although it has been utterly delightful. Doncha just love being part of these days! Me too! =)
G'night sweetheart...*smooches*
I was sitting out on the front porch reading what I thought was going to be my subject for the 700-1500 word paper due today in Criminology, when I heard the big older model car lumbering up the hill. I looked up to see a light spicey mustard colored car going past slowly. The driver had that "I've been soooooo radiated" hair going on, long wisps here and there on an otherwise bald head. I don't know if it were a man or woman, but the individual looked straight ahead as the car went by slowly, one hand on the wheel and the other...
The other hand held a cigarette aloft...kinda Marlena Dietrich style, the smoke curling upward in a thin gray ribbon. The feeling I had was something akin to eerie. The kind of feeling one suspects a character may have in a scary movie, it was rather like watching Death drive by. I thought about it for minutes before going back to the reading at hand.
Even though I've been at home, po po pitiful me, SICK as DAMMIT for a week...I have gotten news from (da ta da da) the restaurant. Holy shit, batman, them folks is straight up crazy!
Okay
Okay
I'm composed now. Sheesh, what is the deal with some folks anyway? Is it possible that some children are just born...evil?
Inbreeding maybe?
Out of date baby food?
ddt in the mac and cheese?
That little gal that helped herself to O.W.'s tips a while back, prompting O.W. to give the girl what-for, to which the girl responded by 1. going home right then and there, and 2. Calling her Mamaw, who is Alice's ex-sister-in-law, making the girl Alice's grand niece or something.
O.W. held her position, telling the Mamaw who, true to East Tennessee tradition (where women over 40 dye their greying hair Very blonde, Very Red, or Very Black), dyed her very frizzy hair very black. Not a pleasant sight at all. Anyway, O.W. told her that, left alone, the girl would realize that taking tips she hasn't earned can be a painful experience. The girl developed a grudge. She made caustic remarks about O.W. when she wasn't around, and then claimed to have set O.W. up, with the starting drawer for O.W.'s shift, with an extra $20. Well, the girl may have intended to do just that, but the three or four cell phone calls she received, and made, while counting the drawer out, caused her to forget to carry it through. Hence the starting drawer was right on the money, and the girl's count was $20 short. Her pocket sucked it up is what happened. But...
The girl told Alice that she had put it in the drawer, and O.W. didn't give it back as an over. Alice took the $20 out of O.W.'s pay, and O.W. addressed that situation in such a way as to prompt Alice to repay the money to O.W. forthwith and with apologies. The girl was somewhat distressed by this as she was then obligated to pay Alice the $20, and at a disadvantage because she didn't realize that Alice had forward the little note, alledging O.W.'s dishonesty and debt, to O.W.
O.W. stopped speaking to, and acknowledging the girl's existence.
Ah well, the girl simply couldn't bear it, so when O.W. was out for a week, the girl told Alice that O.W. had a new roommate and was planning to quit the restaurant.
She also told Alice that she would like to pick up O.W.'s shifts.
Alice assigned her two of O.W.'s days next week, but called O.W. to get her position on all of it. O.W. didn't fuss too much about having only two days next week, since being sick and all, but she declined, even if it were to teach the girl a lesson in honesty, to give her any more than that. Alice said she would return O.W. to full shift the following week.
In the meantime, one of O.W.'s regular customers called her at home asking why in the world she had referenced him to someone in the restaurant with obsenities. Needless to say she was moderately shocked, and somewhat angry. She called the cook and insisted that she demonstrate the same respect for O.W. that had been demonstrated to her by O.W. The cook denied having said such a thing. O.W. also mentioned, very casually, that she wouldn't be working a full week this week because she didn't want to over do it after being so sick, and hoped Alice was able to find someone to cover third shift so she could be off. The cook sounded surprised. O.W. could hear the wheels turning in the cook's silence, and smiled. She had successfully stolen the thunder out of the girl's plan and actions. In fact, when O.W. returns to work tomorrow night, she plans to look at the schedule expectantly, even hopefully, and upon seeing the girl's name on two of her days will exclaim (not too enthusiastically) her gratitude to the girl for working those nights, which she wanted off to continue her recovery (one mustn't over do when recovering from an illness), and dedicating a little extra time to classwork. =)
A body could write a dang soap opera about that joint, eh?
Me? I'm almost all better. Yay! *happy face*
I have that cough syrup by my bed. There aren't any commercials about it, but if you ever have a nagging cough that hurts your head when you cough...get this stuff, it works really REALLY good. Delsym
and it didn't make me sleepy.
I did two 700-1500 word papers today. One for Criminal Justice on Jerry Brudos and Bill Benefiel, and the other comparing the court structures and systems of Tennessee and Oklahoma, based on a classmate's paper. I am Tennessee, of course. *ahem* With emphasis on the Juvenile justice system. Velly intellesting stuff, Natasha. My grade so far (we are beginning week 5...eeeeek, today!) is an A in both classes.
Seeeeee...it was that dreaded awful horrible tragically difficult math....shhhhhh that made things so damned complicated and stressful.
Sadie and Sadie, the two female spiders with webs at my front door, have allowed their webs to become cluttered, which is rather unsightly. I mean, right there at the front door...yanno? So I told them they have to clean house tonight. Gotta lay down the law around here!
*whew* glad that's over with.
And this day...although it has been utterly delightful. Doncha just love being part of these days! Me too! =)
G'night sweetheart...*smooches*
sleepy