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This section of the blog is hereby dedicated
to my fridge that died early this morning.
Now we won’t get another fridge until
Friday. At least this new one has the water and
ice dispensor on the outside…
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I think I can say without a doubt that today was the longest day ever at work. It seemed to just go on and on and on. To you, it felt like 2 hours had gone by. To your watch, that was 15 minutes. I blame it on the unusual slowness of today. I guess today wasn’t a big “Oh..Gotta run to the grocery store!” day.
However, there were a few priceless moments at work today. Someone over at the express lane was talking with a customer when the customer said something about leg warmers (Don’t ask me how; I don’t know). After the customer left, the checker came over to the service desk where the service person and I were standing and asked us if we remembered leg warmers (No, I didn’t.) She walked off, then asked the manager (Tim) if he had heard about leg warmers. He responded, “Are they a band?” Now, if you know Tim, that’s halarious. If you don’t, well, sorry. He looks like he came right out of the 1970s with his almost-mullet blond hair and glasses and his occasional talk about some old 70s/80s rock band he liked (all while doing the Nick impersonation at the same time). Anyway, the checker who asked him that started cracking up laughing and didn’t stop laughing for a good 5 minutes. Now that was priceless.

Today I also saw the likes which have never been seen before: the Tim Reeseman of yester-store. I stood in shock and utter dismay as he walked in with his gelled hair, as he needs to look ‘professional’ because he works at a bank. Tim, you know you want to come back, so fill out the damn application and work in produce!

I stood in even deeper shock and dismay as he mentioned that he reads the blog. Yes, this blog. He mentioned that this blog was too ‘geeky’. Well, to clarify things, I decided to take an unbiased approach and find out what he really meant by ‘geeky.’ Here’s what I found:

According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, the word ‘geek’ is defined as:

1.1. A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.
1.2. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.
2. A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.

OK. I’m going to take this once at a time, because there’s alot of implications here. First definition: “A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.” Well, to be technical, you were referring to the blog as the geek. Therefore because the definition refers to a person, we can exempt this definition as a possible explanation.
The second definition talks about a person as well. Granted I will agree with the scientific or technical pursuits section of the definition, I attest the “felt to be socially inept” clause. Granted in Tim’s eyes I only have one friend, the actual scenario is I have quite a few more than one. So if it is seen in general practice that having several friends is ’sociall inept’, then I will whole-heartedly agree with that statement. Otherwise, I will conclude that it is a statement of falsehood, and will ask the American Heritage Dictionary writers why they must turn this into a book of lies.
Finally, definition number 2: ‘A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.’ Personally, I don’t think I fit under any of those categories. I am not, and never have been a carnival performer, I do not have a show that consists of bizarre acts, and I sure as hell don’t bite heads off live chickens. Tim, I don’t know what you’re talking about when you call this blog ‘geeky’, but I recommend that you choose a better, more suitable word.

Well, my frozen pizza is done, and I am quite tired. So I will eat, then go to bed. Until next time, find a better word than ‘geeky’.

~Jaker