Fun in Flatland

Skeptikos

What would you call that sound that someone makes on the phone when they don't believe what you just told them? It's a cross between a short laugh, like huh, and an aspirated sound at the same time. "I'm sorry I won't be able to come in to work today I don't feel well"."Huh. Well thanks for calling." Like they can't wait to hang up because they don't want to hear anything else you might have to say. I heard that sound today.

Excerpt from April 8, 2006

the weather was beautiful with blue sky and passing clouds it was breezy and slightly cool if you stood in the shade but wonderfully warm in the sun when i got home this afternoon i made an instant coffee i poured the hot water into the mug very slowly for some reason and then was drawn to the beautiful dark brown swirls of the coffee and foam as the cup slowly filled to see me looking into the mug like that one would think that i'd never seen anything like it before i have a childlike fascination with the simplest of things i belong outside doing simple work i will pick things up in the street to see them up close i might keep them or not i often have the company of animals instead of the company of people i will listen to a song many times over if it has a base or drumbeat that i like like a moth to the light i pick up colorful moths at the stables and put them in a safe place if they are living sometimes i will take them home if they have died it seems a shame not to admire their beauty

Buy $9.86 worth of groceries and pay with $100.00 bill. Thanks!

Buy 125 items (multiples of several products) and pay $253.00

It was a crazy busy day and people are freaking out because we may have a few snowflakes falling by Monday night. Whatever.

Goodnight.

Today wasn't the most productive day I've ever had. I sat around the house reading various blogs and changed the look of my own blog. I think I will pull out some of my designs and continue to decorate this web page.

I had an idea to write about the weird things going on at work. I deal with the public and it gives me the opportunity to observe human nature. For example: yesterday I sold many bottles of maple syrup and blueberry syrup, and waffles. What causes us to all think about buying the same thing? Does one person see another getting syrup and thinks -oh yeah good idea. From that point does it become a domino effect of some kind? Then there was the customer who INSISTED on bagging her own groceries even though it meant I stood around doing nothing and she held up the line because she couldn't pay with her debit card, answer all the prompts and bag her groceries at the same time.

And can someone tell me WHY people find it necessary to call me by my first name like we are good friends?? "Hello Mallow, how are you? Oh yes would you please ring up a case of that Sonoma Red Malbec, Mallow? Thank you Mallow, goodbye Mallow". Initially it was the men who were saying my name - usually the over 50 crowd, with a few exceptions- Now I see that more women are doing this too. STOP it!! I know I wear a name tag with my name emblazoned on it.. urgh!

Anyway this sure beats the hell out of sitting in a cubicle all day. I was nearly ensnared in a basement cubicle of a well known magazine not too long ago. People raise their eyebrows when I tell them I turned down that gig- but to me that would have been a death sentence.