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slow moving traffic keep right

Damn it's December already. I don't remember approving that. I don't have any pics yet for this month! Crap!

So last week a new fellow showed up in the gym. He was in there working really hard, etc. He finished a little while before I did, whatever. At any rate, when I went into the locker room to change, he was just finishing up and getting ready to leave. Turns out he's a security guard for the company. OK. No problem with that. I had to laugh though, because he was walking around the locker room with his block baseball "security" hat and his aviator sunglasses on. Even though he was in the locker room. And it was after dark anyway. It was pretty clear to me that the only reason he decided to be a security guard was because of the hat and glasses. Whatever floats your boat I guess.

We've got another fellow roaming around these days - a new janitor. Seen him a couple times now in various places. He looks like the child that you'd get if Cheech and Chong did it and had a kid and then let that kid get really fat. Like. Really fat. It's pretty funny actually. The funniest part is that he's soooo ssslllloooooowwww. Amazingly so. Most janitors take about 5 minutes to go down our hallway and empty the trash cans. This guy took almost 30 minutes last week. I kid you not. I couldn't believe it. And it's not because he's there talking with people - he's just moving soooo ssslllloooooowwww. I also saw him cleaning something in the gym the other day - at first I thought that he was actually fixing one of the pieces of equipment - he was messing with this one certain part of a machine for like 20 minutes. Nope - one of the other guys there came and pointed out that he was actually sitting there with a rag and just slowly rubbing back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.... Amazing.

You ever have one of those experiences where there's something that you see everyday and never take note of it? Had that experience recently - there's a bulletin board in the gym with a bunch of stuff tacked to it. Well, there's something that's been there that I just never paid that much attention to - it's this little drawing of, well, it's of this pig. And not just any pig, it's a smiling pig. With a stem of clover hanging from its mouth. Standing in front of one of those English country houses. And on top of the house there's a stork standing in a nest. Um. And to make matters worse, this little tableau has actually been executed on a napkin. A paper napkin dammit! And then, and then, you have to realize that someone took the time to bring this napkin into the gym, smooth it out and post it on the bulletin board. I, uh, ah, well, what do I say?

And to add injury to insult, not only is this napkin throwing me off my game, I'm in between sock generations. I have like 4 different sock families going on all of a sudden, of different sizes and lengths. Which means that not only do I have to pay attention when folding them after laundry - I also have to use some mental exertion to decide what I'm going to wear. I guess that's the price one pays for being a fashion plate - sock troubles.

Yeah - saw one of these in action a while back.

Wow. This sounds scary.

A funny name. Another funny name.

Good stuff, Maynard!

Um.

Posted by minor at December 1, 2003 07:23 PM