The bank has been pretty quiet today, but there's been a steady stream of old men coming into the lobby. They all look the same, too. Same hunched posture, same shuffling gait, same slack-jawed expression. Most of them have been wearing the same type of golf cap that men over 60 seem to wear around here. It's eerie.
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"I look at the stars. It's a clear night and the Milky Way seems so near. That's where I'll be going soon. "We are all star stuff." I suddenly remember Delenn's line from Joe's script. Not a bad prospect. I am not afraid. In the meantime, let me close my eyes and sense the beauty around me. And take that breath under the dark sky full of stars. Breathe in. Breathe out. That's all."
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On today's outing we'll each get to shuffle around a bank alone.
Don't wanna. Wanna cookie.
If you shuffle around nice you get two cookies!
Izzat more?I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
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Another thing that makes the old men all seem the same is that the town is 98+% white, and most folks have Finnish or Norwegian ancestry. So everyone's coloring is the same, too. And that day, they all seemed the same height and everything."I look at the stars. It's a clear night and the Milky Way seems so near. That's where I'll be going soon. "We are all star stuff." I suddenly remember Delenn's line from Joe's script. Not a bad prospect. I am not afraid. In the meantime, let me close my eyes and sense the beauty around me. And take that breath under the dark sky full of stars. Breathe in. Breathe out. That's all."
-Mira Furlan
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Sounds like the Grey Invasion that used to happen at the garden centre where I worked in Pets. On pension day, a huge group of elderly people used to all arrive in a coach and storm round the place like an invading army. This was not the day to be another customer trying to shop, cuz you could find yourself waiting in a queue behind ten or more old people, each of whom paid in small change and talked the cashier's ear off. Then at lunch time, they filled the cafe and there was nowhere for other people to sit. They finally all left after lunch, and everyone heaved a sigh of relief. They weren't nasty or rude, just a bit overwhelming when there's a horde of old people shopping at the same time.
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Quoth Irving Patrick Freleigh View PostThought of this right away for some reason. Probably because there are many things wrong with me.:
Without the underpants, I suspect.
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I know this was about older gentlemen, but I saw it most with soccer moms. Not elderly women, you say? In a fabric store no less? No. I mean, yes we got loads of older women, but I never saw them as being cookie cutter similar.
Now, soccer moms, they were identical. Kind of mean, prone to asking for discounts and for a manager. Dismissive. Let their kids run wild, and would periodically yell at them while they completely ignored their parent. Waited until the end to suddenly realize that they had a coupon, if they couldn't get the discount they wanted, they'd leave their cut fabric (and sometimes their whole basket) without a second thought. I'm serious, some days this was at least half of my customers.Replace anger management with stupidity management.
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Ugh. At my workplace, the horde of old zombies always come in at the north entrance at 1:00 pm every Tuesday, grabbing whatever small carts they saw, even if someone else was using them. I'm honestly surprised I never saw an old person try to walk off with someone else's baby. Maybe it happened before my time.
No fights, though. Just plenty of whining.
For the better part of my first 5 months, I tried to let my coworkers know that we should keep the small carts fully stocked on the north entrance by 12:45. I was ignored, because the north side was the least busy side and therefore, we shouldn't worry so much. And I was a relative newbie who should enjoy being made to work on the easy side.
So I began to work on the south side. my coworkers enjoyed the easiness of the North side. At least until Tuesday.
Low and behold, in a matter of a few weeks, my coworkers had this 'new' idea. Have the small carts stocked by 12:45 on Tuesday for the old horde. Luckily, when I confronted them about it, they admitted I had a point about it.Cast in the name of Death, Ye not living.
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