Ever wonder what it would be like if you travelled across one entire country to another...on a bus? Wonder no more! Let me, Mel, open up your senses to the sweet smell of bus bathrooms and stinkey cheese feet as I regale you with tales of my travels on a bus from Florida, U.S.A, to Alberta, Canada.
Continue reading...Thursday, May 14, 2009
Every day on my trip to work I pass by a carwash right next to the gas station I usually hit. Out in front, it has one of those "insert the letters" marquee type of signs, allowing the message to be changed
Continue reading...Sunday, August 31, 2008
If you own a pickup truck and live in Florida, I’ve got bad news for you. Florida drivers are apparently known around the country for coming in two flavors: blue-haired grannies driving 45 miles on the interstate with the left turn signal on for 20 miles and senseless idiots riding on bumpers at 90 MPH… in [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 30, 2008
So, a couple weeks ago I was speaking to an otherwise intelligent but very, very Christian co-worker about the fact she is letting her teen daughter go to the launch night for some new vampire book. I expressed a bit of surprise that she was letting her daughter go to such secular festivities. Her reply: [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, May 18, 2008
I have spent a great amount of my life doing some sort of customer service. I’ve done it in person for retail, tech support and food service. I’ve rendered similar services over the phone for both computer tech support and for a financial institution. I’ve done so both as a front line agent and as [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, March 12, 2008
First-up form the bat-shit crazy files: I Can’t Eat That! I bring you the story of one of my co-workers, we’ll call her Debbie. Debbie is surprisingly normal on the surface. She’s at the very least marginally intelligent, not at all some of the pond slime I worked with at past jobs. She’s polite; even soft [...]
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Saturday, May 23, 2009
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