Hello All!
I took a day or so off to chillax. Between ground zero known as my bathroom and the holiday hustle and bustle at work, stressed out is not even the word. Currently our bathroom has a tub and a toilet. One of my cats has fallen in love with the exposed wood and has been licking it for the last hour. Yep, it's Moo Cow!
I have mentioned all my cats except Ms. Phaeta. Phaeta is my first cat. We adopted her right before I left for Iraq back in '04. She's our ditz. I'm Sure she's got blond roots. We affectionately call her "Princess Feces". She has a bit of a fecal fetish. Gross, I know. Pfff. Who said female cats are cleaner? She tends to roll in her crap and wears her little brown nuggets with pride as if the were jewels and she was Queen Elizabeth. But at least she's cute. And she has the cutest little meows. She also never runs around without her socks on. Sorry, that was such a cat lady thing to say. You get a pic of her.
Boy, if it 's not one thing it's another. Work Sucks , yet provides a form of strangely addicting entertainment. If you are sickeningly sweet to the average Masshole, that hate you even more than you could imagine. That my friends is what I like to call "Retail-gasim". Today was completely full of them.
The usual crazy questions and antics, but one jokester, really pissed me the hell of. Imagine if you will, a home office display with 40 different cubby wholes of various sizes. Some dumb ass got this hair up his/her ass to take a the entire stock of a black leather picture frame we sell and not only remove every last one from the boxes, but also take the protective wrap of the frames. After that was accomplished, this "Mass-a-lope," took every frame and hid them strategically throughout the entire fixture. At least the person was "nice" enough to put the boxes back together and stack them neatly. Omigosh!!!! When I found the frames, it took all the zen breathing and restraint I possessed and some from a customer to keep me from lashing out at every customer in the store. I know they probably didn't do that, but it's the smug attitude from most of our customers that portraits the attitude, "Eh, it's okay, some minimum wage loser will put this back." For that "DICK'S" information, I earn more than minimum wage!
Ugh.......
The other favorite thing I like about our customers, many of them take the time to pull lists of books from other stores, and bring them in. Hold on. Not just online stores, oh no. There are lists compiled with web page print outs of all pertinent info from places such as Yahoo, MSN, Amazon, Half.com, Ebay, etc. But ya gotta add the people that collect from other bookstores. Customers have come in with title pages they've ripped from books in other stores, pictures on their phones and digi cameras of the books from other stores, some have even had the other stores call over. Wow. I know. The best is when we don't have what they are looking for and they throw it in you face that the saw it in another store. I always wanna say, " Look Bitch, why the fuck didn't you get it while you were there? You're not even a member here so it's not like your saving money!!!!!" Stupid fuckers!
So I am trying to avoid reading the Iraq report that is out. We have copies everywhere. I keep picking them up, but slamming them down and quickly waddling away. I'm not quite sure why we paid people to come out with this findings. Are people really that baffled about why we're still there? Well ya, I guess there is some confusion on why we went, but why we're still there is simple. Somethings just don't have simple solutions. Something aren't quick an easy like your high school class slut. Somethings require time. Time to heal, realign, learn, experience, fuck up, and get it right. The Iraqi people have had a tragic history. Cutting and running just makes us another abusive family member. Well, I guess we would be the abusive foster parent. Not demeaning the people of Iraq and calling them children. They have been around since the beginning of time. The Garden of Eden and Babylon are two biblical places located in Mesopotamia or Iraq. So they've been around. The people are just new to making their own collective decisions. So yes, it will take awhile. So stop expecting a quick solution. Time has the power to heal, corrective, strengthen, weaken, and punish. It will come. Karma and fate will see all of us through.
So I thought I would indulge my audience with a bit of Tao Teh Ching. I'm not a Taoist. But if your like me you gathered that it's kinda like Buddhism. Correct. The two are kinda the same. The major difference other than origin of location and age (Taoism is believed to be slightly older way of life than Buddhism), is the belief in "emptiness." Buddhist's Emptiness concerns external views and perceptions of reality and objects. Tao emptiness concerns restraint, patience, frugality, and simplicity. With that in mind, I'm gonna hit you with some Lao Tzu.
11.
Thirty spokes converge upon a single hub;
It is on the hole in the center that the use of the cart hinges.
We make a vessel from a lump of clay;
It is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.
We make doors and windows for a room;
But it is these empty spaces that make the room livable.
Thus, while the tangible has advantages,
It is the intangible that makes it useful.
Damn. That's some deep shizzle!
Take that with you a ponder my friends. Next post, I'll have another for ya. If your interested, check this site out: http://www.thetao.info/index.htm
And don't for get to check out my dawg over at: http://thirdprong.blogspot.com/
Say something intelligent there!!!
Much respect,
Yokai
1 comment:
Yeah, I know what you mean about people saying things like "Well, the OTHER store has it." I worked at Home Depot for two months earlier this year. People always came in asking for weird stuff and I'd simply say "You can probably special order it." To which they'd reply, "Fine, I'll just go to the OTHER store." Wow, really hurt my feelings there pal. Good, get the f*ck out of my sight.
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