The best part about living in the middle of nowhere has got to be the ignorance that is daily demonstrated by the people who live here.
Take today for instance. I was helping a relatively nice South-Asian couple start a new line of service. They were talking to each other and on the phone in a non-English (gasp) language, which was easier for them to communicate in. Some guy comes in at around 8:30pm and waits for a while why I am on the phone with Sprint helping out the customers. He has an angry/mean look about him but I ask the rep to hold and go to help him. He looks at me, then the couple, then at me again and finally tells me he needs a car power adapter for his hand held police scanner, I go to show him them, and he starts mumbling and eventually says, "those people sound like they have shit in their mouths." Seriously, this is the type of person who makes America great, ignorant people who cannot respect others who have done them no wrong. Long story short the guy left after little help from me and I went on to continue helping the couple who ended up tipping me 7 dollars on top of my commission; so take that ignorance.
2. Also, on a lighter note a young gentleman of about eighteen was enlightening me as to how the "ink pack" in his tracfone exploded when he opened it.
Long story short, I am starting to become more certain that the biblical end times are near and northern Ill. is one of places where the pure will flock (much like Palin's Alaska). So come one and all, but only if you are WASPS.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Thursday, November 13, 2008
A recent occurence
This blog will hopefully be updated daily with my exploits but as I am off this weekend let me regale you with some things that have happened during the previous weeks.
1. A women comes in to the store at 7PM and says she needs to order a surveillance system. After a brief conversation she informs me that her husband has potentially killed her cat and that she wants to videotape him when/if he kills her dog. She currently has a spy in the house who has to some degree verified her suspicions about the cat. This is all information provided to me unprovoked. I try and be reassuring and explain to her our cameras and she continues to involve me in a byzantine narrative of cat autopsies, the man she is living with now, and her willingness to spend no more than $100 dollars.
2. A man in a motorcycle helmet (red) walks in. He has large man boobs and is extremely disheveled and frightening. He barks out an order for a VHS head cleaner, which I show him. He then pronounces, "I didn't ride all the way over here to pay $20 dollars for that". He then mumbles to himself while walking out.
3. A man described his foreskin tattoo to me
4. Old man buys a one way VHS rewinder (enough said)
5. I was told, "This isn't England god dammit, this is America"
6. I have also been told, "Soon we will be like the French and not able to do anything for ourselves."
7. Lots of people smell like cat pee, at first it was odd but now it just seems like a trend.
Stay posted for more details as they happen, now that I have the infrastructure off of the ground I will be more inclined to chronicle the greatness that my life has become.
1. A women comes in to the store at 7PM and says she needs to order a surveillance system. After a brief conversation she informs me that her husband has potentially killed her cat and that she wants to videotape him when/if he kills her dog. She currently has a spy in the house who has to some degree verified her suspicions about the cat. This is all information provided to me unprovoked. I try and be reassuring and explain to her our cameras and she continues to involve me in a byzantine narrative of cat autopsies, the man she is living with now, and her willingness to spend no more than $100 dollars.
2. A man in a motorcycle helmet (red) walks in. He has large man boobs and is extremely disheveled and frightening. He barks out an order for a VHS head cleaner, which I show him. He then pronounces, "I didn't ride all the way over here to pay $20 dollars for that". He then mumbles to himself while walking out.
3. A man described his foreskin tattoo to me
4. Old man buys a one way VHS rewinder (enough said)
5. I was told, "This isn't England god dammit, this is America"
6. I have also been told, "Soon we will be like the French and not able to do anything for ourselves."
7. Lots of people smell like cat pee, at first it was odd but now it just seems like a trend.
Stay posted for more details as they happen, now that I have the infrastructure off of the ground I will be more inclined to chronicle the greatness that my life has become.
Introduction
Welcome, and as a brief frontispiece to this Blog I would just like to lay out its general purpose. I currently work a shitty retail job. This blog is is a chronicle of this job and the people I meet on a daily basis. So, please enjoy.
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