Feeding frenzy
Nov. 21st, 2005 04:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gordonzolaWork this time of year makes talking to non-grocery workers a little alienating. Most people are busy with looking forward to or dreading their upcoming holiday, but starting to ease off and get ready for a little work break. How was my weekend? It was great if one can call it a weekend when one works both days.
I’m not complaining. I like it busy. Plus I had my full-on yearly buyer stress on Friday of looking at the cooler, stacked floor to ceiling with cheeses of varying perishability and thinking, like I do every year, "I fucked up. We can’t sell all of this." Luckily by now I know I think that every year so I try not to pay attention to myself when I get that way.
And I love that the gawths have started encouraging dress up days around the stressful times of year and that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anarqueso loans me her derby hat so I can look distinguished and grey. One co-worker took one look at me and asked , "Where is the lactose –free ultra violence milk?" * Another asked after my missing cod piece.
I had to thank a co-worker for dressing like my teenage punk rock girl fantasies come to life but I won’t go into details. Another co-worker said, "I’m gonna wear a tie more often. People keep giving me their phone numbers."
As for the cheese department well, did you guys see "Grizzly Man"? Here’s the last thing the vegan saw**
*What did they call milk in that movie?
**oh, just kidding. And I knowdairryiere posted this already but I love it too much not to do it myself.
I’m not complaining. I like it busy. Plus I had my full-on yearly buyer stress on Friday of looking at the cooler, stacked floor to ceiling with cheeses of varying perishability and thinking, like I do every year, "I fucked up. We can’t sell all of this." Luckily by now I know I think that every year so I try not to pay attention to myself when I get that way.
And I love that the gawths have started encouraging dress up days around the stressful times of year and that
anarqueso loans me her derby hat so I can look distinguished and grey. One co-worker took one look at me and asked , "Where is the lactose –free ultra violence milk?" * Another asked after my missing cod piece.I had to thank a co-worker for dressing like my teenage punk rock girl fantasies come to life but I won’t go into details. Another co-worker said, "I’m gonna wear a tie more often. People keep giving me their phone numbers."
As for the cheese department well, did you guys see "Grizzly Man"? Here’s the last thing the vegan saw**
*What did they call milk in that movie?
**oh, just kidding. And I know
dairryiere posted this already but I love it too much not to do it myself.
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Date: 2005-11-21 06:22 pm (UTC)But tequila!
and it got better when the funk band got up there later.. It was like.. the rest of the Family Stone and En Vogue's vocal coach. They were really good.
It was fun. We had a good 3-400 people throughout the day. The burgers were perfect and we got enough in donations to fund a big ol' neighborhood watch. It was too easy not to do it again as soon as the weather warms up.
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Date: 2005-11-21 07:20 pm (UTC)You weren't the person who came to my door, were you?
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Date: 2005-12-07 06:53 am (UTC)And it wasn't me at the door, but yes, when our apartment got burgled we stepped up with the watch program with our across the street ex-NOLA-cop neighbor. You've probably seen him in the neighborhood. Large dreadlocked gentleman in robes or some such usually.
Nice guy.
And also yes to meeting one of these days. I'm gonna' have to work that out.