The everyday is interesting

[kasie]

You're all heart, mick - she was stranded in the Coop, for goodness sake, it wouldn't have been so bad if it had been somewhere interesting like M&S or John Lewis....possibly more expensive but much more interesting...

[prendrelemick]

After all those threads about relationships and gender - right there ^ is the knub. Being stranded in M&S would be my worst hell.

[Paulclem]

Our town has been on the telly for the third time in as many weeks. We keep getting flooded! Mrs P was nearly swept away getting to the Co-op, and then got stranded there. She rang me for advice, I told her not to be such a wimp - it's only a bit of rain.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-18768291

I missed this, though I saw it on the news. Did you go and meet Charlie?

[Emil Miller]

I went to the hairdresser yesterday and the first words he said was:" How are you enjoying the summer?" I told him I will when it arrives but so far it has been the worst summer I can remember. He then related how he recently went to visit a friend who had returned to his native Cyprus after spending 55 years in England.
This man told him that, having returned to the glorious weather of Cyprus, he regretted that he hadn't returned within the the first week after coming to England. Got to agree with him there.

[Paulclem]

So here I am down at my allotment looking at the small patch I've cleared and now posting here on myphone. It's not even surprising that you can do this anymore. It is as everyday as a teenager with world class tech in their hands. I'm amazed when I think of how much ee have advanced in so short a time. In fact innovation is everyday now. Yet my wife was taljing to a lady in our street who was moaning that the results of her scan at the hispital had been sent to "webpage" and not to her. My wife didn't like to try to explain what a webpage was as this lady clearky thought it was a place her results had been snail mailed to. I suppose it's an everyday thing.

[JuniperWoolf]

Someone in the bar just gave our mentally handicapped DJ, Alan, hallucinogenic mushrooms. Without his knowledge, and he's not been on them before, so he's not going to know what the **** is going on. Alan stays in the hotel section and is in a room on the second floor right now. The bar manager told me to call her if he freaks out. I guess I will, even if it's at 4:30am, but if she doesn't answer I'm calling 911.

[JuniperWoolf]

*update* He took an ativan and passed out, didn't make a peep all night. That's good, if there's one thing I hate more than expending energy at work it's expending energy at work because of a potentially dangerous situation.

I should post more about the violent redneck **** that happens in this town, and especially in this building which contains the only bar in town. Last week I opened the restaurant branch's front door at about 5am, the door to the restaurant being kind of right beside the bar's (the walls meets at a right angle, there's one door on each wall), and there was broken glass and a pile of blood, I'm going to say about eight cups, on the ground. I say "pile" because it was kind of chunky, I'm guessing because it was plus thirty that night. It made me feel a bit dizzy and nauseous actually, I've never seen that much blood in real life (just on tv). I don't know who it came out of, the bouncers said they had no idea what might have happened. Our Filipino groundskeeper came in at 5am and hosed the sidewalk down.

Tonight some American threw a shoe at a waitress in the bar section (she wasn't working, she was just there to drink), so she punched him in the jaw. He went down too, she's pretty big.

Also tonight there were apparently two guys and two girls making out in a kind of group blob of human flesh in the bar, so our main server Trista cut them off.

Girl A: You seriously want to try to cut us off?
Trista: Try to?
Girl A: You see that guy over there? My boyfriend?
Trista: Uh... yes.
Girl A: You see how big he is? And you think you're going to cut us off?

Trista decides to ignore them. She wouldn't serve them or aknowledge their existance and they eventually wander over to the pool tables. Bar manager Charlie walks past with a tray of drinks. Girl B smacks entire trey out of Charlie's hand. It lands on the pool table and the glasses shatter, drinks and broken glass all over the pool table, the other patrons, and the floor. Then the four of them laugh like drunken hyenas and run out and off into the night.

I had my own incident tonight, but just a little one. Rm. 216 called at midnight and said he had to work tomorrow (the trade guys generally get up at 5am) but the people in the room next to him were yelling and singing. As soon as I rounded the corner I could hear them, and I was already mad in general because of the stupid florescent lights and having to be here for five more days. Their door was partially open too, so they were likely keeping all of the trade guys up. I knock on the door of 218, jovial voice "come iiiin!" Ten people are in there, it smells like weed and booze hardcore, and the stereo was blaring. They axe it when I come in and everyone is silent. Me = :mad5: "You guys have to shut up," in my deepest most threatening tone of voice. Small Asian guy = "Oh, yes, really sorry, everybody shh! Sorry miss, sorry." All of 218's guests leave, I return to my office.


The End ...?

[Paulclem]

Some good material there for a novel.

[JuniperWoolf]

A depressing one.

[Darcy88]

A depressing one.

You tell the stories quite well. I bet you could come up with some interesting and fun fiction. The North now is like the wild west was, at least that's how it seems to me from afar here in BC.

[Paulclem]

A depressing one.

They're the best ones - unless you're Thomas Hardy. There's also the space for comedy in there - you going into the room with the loud guests - any scene could have unfolded - a renamed disliked co-worker in a compromising situation with an everyday item and wearing bandolier chic...

(I'm not sure where I got bandolier chic from. It could always be a recurrent motif for something though).

[cacian]

Can telling a story means a discovery of an idea any idea?

[Helga]

A depressing one.

I'd read it, I like the waitress that hit the guy, I bet he didn't see that coming.

[cafolini]

Can telling a story means a discovery of an idea any idea?

Yes but also a possible disappearance of many others.

[cacian]

Yes but also a possible disappearance of many others.

Haha really?
Disappearance seems very intricate.
Are you able to elaborate?:)

[cafolini]

Haha really?
Disappearance seems very intricate.
Are you able to elaborate?:)

I'll live it at that, fully elaborated.

[cacian]

I'll live it at that, fully elaborated.

Haha I see well for all intent and purposes disappearances can be interpreted in so many ways.
In this case then I shall have it my way :biggrin5:

[cafolini]

Haha I see well for all intent and purposes disappearances can be interpreted in so many ways.
In this case then I shall have it my way :biggrin5:

So can new ideas be interpreted in so many ways.

[cacian]

So can new ideas be interpreted in so many ways.

Not so sure about that because whilst an idea is an idea one can divulge what it might mean and so is it is suggestive debatable and approachabale because one can visualise it.
Disappearances however can mean all sorts because they are no longer viewable or visible.
What is not visible is not tangible nor debatible for the sole reason that one cannot be precise on how where or when to approach it if anything.
Disappearances are impossible to bring to focus because of the unknown.

[Paulclem]

What is not tangible is not debatible for the sole reason that one can be precise on how where or when to approach it if anything.

This is not true. Happiness is intangible, but we can discuss it.

[cafolini]

Not so sure about that because whilst an idea is an idea one can divulge what it might mean and so is it is suggestive debatable and approachabale because one can visualise it.
Disappearances however can mean all sorts because they are no longer.
What is not tangible is not debatible for the sole reason that one can be precise on how where or when to approach it if anything.

''find yourself ahead of all force the feet leading you through ''

''Be a nun. Prepare you in attendance to some and prepare many in attendance to none ''

[cacian]

''find yourself ahead of all force the feet leading you through ''

''Be a nun. Prepare you in attendance to some and prepare many in attendance to none ''

:smilielol5:
I see the conversation has taken a turn for a nun or a monk or neither haha.

[DocHeart]

I went to the hairdresser yesterday and the first words he said was:" How are you enjoying the summer?" I told him I will when it arrives but so far it has been the worst summer I can remember. He then related how he recently went to visit a friend who had returned to his native Cyprus after spending 55 years in England.
This man told him that, having returned to the glorious weather of Cyprus, he regretted that he hadn't returned within the the first week after coming to England. Got to agree with him there.


Tell him to ask him again in three or four months, after lenders have imposed on Cyprus the measures they have imposed on Greece and Spain...

[Emil Miller]

Tell him to ask him again in three or four months, after lenders have imposed on Cyprus the measures they have imposed on Greece and Spain...

Well there are plenty of people here who have lost their jobs and millions more who live in fear of losing theirs but if you are going to suffer, it's better to do it in sunshine than what passes for it here.

[JuniperWoolf]

*edit* Eh, nevermind, at risk of hijacking the thread by making too many posts in a row I'll blog this one.

[cacian]

This is not true. Happiness is intangible, but we can discuss it.

Hi Paulclem you are right happiness is discussable because it is a feeling.
Disappearances are harder to discuss because they are no longer.

[Paulclem]

It's been an everyday kind of holiday - supporting the youngest who is 17 as she goes on an outdoor pursuits holiday and works in a team to develop a community poject; helping the lad who is off to Japan for 9 months next week, sort out his stuff; and shopping and visiting and taking out the two elderly relatives who can't stray beyond their houses except in wheelchairs.

It's not something that you realise or expect, or anyone tells you about when you're younger. Perhaps that's for the best, but I think a heads up on it is in order:

At a certain age you could well find yourself supporting your children and elderly relatives at the same time. How long it goes on for is indeterminate, and there will be change at some point, but don't let it creep up on you unnoticed. If the situation arises you will be supportive of course, but make sure you're prepared. (It just crept up on us.):biggrin5:

[Emil Miller]

On leaving a station, a man is handed a free copy of the London Evening Standard and rolls it into a scroll intending to read it when he arrives home.
On arrival he makes a cup of tea and unscrolls the paper to be greeted with the headline WORK FOR NO PAY OR LOSE BENEFITS. Turning over the pages he arrives at an article headed THE SOCIALITE NETWORK, which refers to the creation of an exclusive social network for wealthy aristos.
Reaching for a guitar, the man starts strumming it, puts on a phony hill billy voice and starts singing: 'The times they are a-changin'.

[cacian]

On leaving a station, a man is handed a free copy of the London Evening Standard and rolls it into a scroll intending to read it when he arrives home.
On arrival he makes a cup of tea and unscrolls the paper to be greeted with the headline WORK FOR NO PAY OR LOOSE BENEFITS. Turning over the pages he arrives at an article headed THE SOCIALITE NETWORK, which refers to the creation of an exclusive social network for wealthy aristos.
Reaching for a guitar, the man starts strumming it, puts on a phony hill billy voice and starts singing: 'The times they are a-changin'.

Why does the word SOCIALITE reminds of 1984 novel?

[Emil Miller]

Why does the word SOCIALITE reminds of 1984 novel?

I can only think that it's because you have been partaking of the wine shown in your avatar.

[papayahed]

The phone call I never thought I'd get arrived today.

We have three ponds and a drainage ditch at work. It's Louisiana, we have mosquitos as big as my head. Five years ago when I arrived, I was inundated with complaints about mosquitos. I had the city come in and spray once a week but spraying chemicals in a chemical plant never did sit well so I searched for other methods. A coworker recommended we get bats. One probelm: Where the heck do you get bats?

We bought two bat boxes and erected them in the best possible positions on the property, then waited for the bats to find us. And we waited. Five years we waited, until today!

I was coming back from lunch when the call came. "Papaya I have something for you in the front seat of my truck, can I bring them over?"
My pest control guy was hired to get rid of bats from a school and he thought of me!!! Isn't that romantic?? (kidding, he's married) Anyways, within the hour I had a box of bats sitting on my desk.

Seriously.

This is the unromantic part. I asked my guy if he was going to take them back to the boxes. He said he seriously couldn't because he was in a hurry but all I had to do as place the box of bats under the bat box and open the box. A few would fly out but most would stay and eventually climb up into the bat box if I left it alone until tomorrow.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

...This is the unromantic part. I asked my guy if he was going to take them back to the boxes. He said he seriously couldn't because he was in a hurry but all I had to do as place the box of bats under the bat box and open the box. A few would fly out but most would stay and eventually climb up into the bat box if I left it alone until tomorrow.

I can appreciate avoiding chemicals, but you may find you'll need a lot more bats to keep up with the haords of mosquitoes.
You might need to supplement with a few of these... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEg0_sbofBw

[cafolini]

Read articles from beginning to end. They also tell you about farms. It is impotant that you know what kind of bats you need, for example.
Don't look at the link and think they are trying to sell you a bat house. There is much more to it.
http://www.about-bats.com/bat-houses-for-sale.html

[cacian]

I can only think that it's because you have been partaking of the wine shown in your avatar.

LOL nice one although I have to say Emil I enjoyed your clever post. Aristos is a word I do not know yet. And I like the strumming. Shame it was not a copy of The Times still clever ;)

[Adolescent09]

I lost 55 lbs in a little over a month. Gauntness nourishes despondency!

[cacian]

I lost 55 lbs in a little over a month. Gauntness nourishes despondency!

is that in body weight do you mean?

[Adolescent09]

Yes, cacian. I might have anorexia or cancer. But honestly, death right now would be the least of my problems.

[cacian]

Yes, cacian. I might have anorexia or cancer. But honestly, death right now would be the least of my problems.

Hoping not of course. what triggered such loss of weight? did you diet?
if you do not mind me asking. If so it is ok apologies in advance.