I paid tuition today,and while I was writing the check, my cell phone went off. While I answered the call and tried to finish writing the check, the clerk glared at me and said, "Please step to one side, and we can finish this when you're done with your call."
Startled, I looked over my shoulder and confirmed that there was nobody behind me, nobody anywhere in the corridor. Shrugging, I finished the call, handed over the check, apologized for inconveniencing the clerk (answered with a turned shoulder) and left, slowly growing more irritated with the clerk.
Oh, well, doubtless she's been offended by cell phoners who really did inconvenience her and other people in line. She was just taking it out on the latest cell phone user. Don't take it personally.
Um, right? Or not....
Driving towards my next stop of the day, I pulled up behind a liquid nitrogen tank truck. High on its rear end I saw the sign:
"Venting is normal".
Well, all right, then.
From Kathe comes a way to get some enjoyment out of those wretched cats-in-a-sack online arguments.
From Jake comes a link to a delightful site where they offer model kits that I would have sold my soul for when I was nine. Actually, they still look pretty good to me. Maybe after I'm done with nursing school....
From Hogan's Alley comes a link to a creepily cute new comic strip, Lio.
And from a hopeful e-mailing robot comes an appeal to sign a petition asking Congress to get cracking on the rebuilding of New Orleans, and crony contracts be damned.
//The Magic 8-Ball says, "When life hands you lemons...."\\
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