Mall Rats
I am officially going to San Fransisco for three days in December. I have a plane ticket and am registered for the conference. I really super hope that Calvin will follow through on refunding me for these outrageously expensive things. He should...I'm not too worried.
What I am worried about is when and how am I going to make an 8x4 ft poster?
Gotta get on that one.
I walked outside the the store today to talk to the boys in the kiosk. It's a Dakota Watch Company kiosk. Kevin works at the Dakota kiosk and at Romancing the Stone. For the first month I worked at Romancing people would refer to the kiosk that Kevin works at as at Dakota. Only I thought they were saying the coda. Like a coda in sheet music. I thought that they were using the word coda instead of kiosk b/c I never knew that those things were called kiosks. And being from Michigan, you are allowed to pronounce "the" as "de" so "de coda". Then after a month I realized the place was called Dakota like that states.
I didn't tell you guys yet but Josh's camping chair broke while he was sitting in it on Halloween. That means we have exactly one working chair in our apartment. One. We now sit on the ground to eat. One of the guys who works at Dakota , Eddie, we found out has 12 chairs. Eddie is 20 yrs old and lives with roommates. Why does he have 12 chairs? Luckily the mall rats (which is what I call group of friends that constantly hang out at Dakota and Romancing) all look out for each other, and give each other things if a person needs it. So Eddie was like, dude! Take my chairs! So soon as we call him and get it togethor we are picking up a couple chairs from him. Isn't it amazing how that works? I should make him cookies.
I walked out to the Dakota (okay so in my mind I still called the coda) to see what was going on. There was Tyler (who was working with me at the time), Tony, Robbie, Kevin, and Eddie. They were all amazed by something Eddie did, and he was all "Well Tony didn't see it the first time!" and Tyler called me over and was like "Lindy look at this!" and I looked and Eddie had a fricken staple stuck in the large muscle of his forearm. All the way in. I had to walk away, I really did almost throw up. When did I turn into such a weakling? Eddie is more well kept than the other boys, but he has a thing for pain that I don't understand. He was in our store looking at the tongue ring gauges. For those who are wondering (because I didn't know this before I started working here) when a person makes the holes in their ears larger...like large enough to stick a pencil through the holes, this is called gauging, and I learned today that you can gauge any hole. You tongue ring hole, your nipple ring holes, and your vagina ring holes. There's some knowledge relevant to my interests. Also, these holes, if not stretched too big will shrink back to normal size. So Eddie wants to gauge out his tongue, again. He said the fun of doing it was in the pain. Tyler thinks so too. I don't know if I agree with this, but I feel that it has something to do with the adrenalin rush you recieve. And I think it can be addictive. I also don't know how I feel about have a 1/4 inch diameter hole in your tongue as well. Tyler said he knew a girl who had probably a 1 inch gauged out hole in her hoo hoo. All I could think was...if her peircing is that big imagine how big her vagina is!!?!?! (Is vagina the right word? I'm not sure, but I'm refering to the hole the penis goes in and I'm implying that it's GIANT.)
I told my manager, a while back, that I am a huge Lions fan and she goes "Why? You DO know they are 0 and 19?" We are all going to have to forgive her...she's from the south.
I think I have arthritis in my pointer finger and it hurts. (proof that I am getting old).
I also told my manager that Canadian coins are so common in Michigan that they are used as equivelant US coins. She then told me that she thinks Michigan is more part of Canada than the US. Which was of course offensive, and being from the south...she should have known that, so I told her that "Actually, Michigan is the US's first line of defense against Canada." Which she thought was stupid...such a small part of Canada is touching the US there...if they were to invade they'd clearly invade through Minnesota or something.
She also thinks she's very sarcastic.
There are girls in the Mall Rats group too. There is one girl, Fatima, who seems like she might be cool, except she works at Abercrombie and Fitch and likes how their cologne smells. Actually all those boys like how the cologne smells. They claim to be the worlds BIGGEST HIPPIES and yet they also enjoy shopping at Abercrombie and Fitch if they have the money. I told them the story of when I accidently interviewed to be a model there...and they were all "yeah, that's what you do." and the comedy of the situation was completely lost on them. Oh, and really? Abercrombie and Fitch Hippie is an oxy moron. There is a 17 yr. old girl I met the other day. I had to be careful b/c I can tell she was looking up to me and wanted to appear "cool" in front of me. So I tried very hard not to say anything that may have been insulting. Like "Why are you here with a 21 yr old? Where are your parents? Why are you wearing sweatpants? You are silly sounding, and please don't sit on the floor of my store." I need to hang out with more teenage girls..and slowly mold them into little versions of me.
There are also some lesbians that come in and know the boys and maybe some other random girls here and there.
The stupidest one is named Aaron. He has a buzzcut, buck teeth and is the stupidest person I ever met. He stood by the counter scanning his eyes over and over and over again with our scanner, while he told us a story about how he did that for 10 min. at his job while a customer watched and waited for him to notice her. Then Fatima told Aaron that scanning your eyes like that will cause you to go blind. He didn't believe her and kept on doing it. I said nothing.
Now you know.
What I am worried about is when and how am I going to make an 8x4 ft poster?
Gotta get on that one.
I walked outside the the store today to talk to the boys in the kiosk. It's a Dakota Watch Company kiosk. Kevin works at the Dakota kiosk and at Romancing the Stone. For the first month I worked at Romancing people would refer to the kiosk that Kevin works at as at Dakota. Only I thought they were saying the coda. Like a coda in sheet music. I thought that they were using the word coda instead of kiosk b/c I never knew that those things were called kiosks. And being from Michigan, you are allowed to pronounce "the" as "de" so "de coda". Then after a month I realized the place was called Dakota like that states.
I didn't tell you guys yet but Josh's camping chair broke while he was sitting in it on Halloween. That means we have exactly one working chair in our apartment. One. We now sit on the ground to eat. One of the guys who works at Dakota , Eddie, we found out has 12 chairs. Eddie is 20 yrs old and lives with roommates. Why does he have 12 chairs? Luckily the mall rats (which is what I call group of friends that constantly hang out at Dakota and Romancing) all look out for each other, and give each other things if a person needs it. So Eddie was like, dude! Take my chairs! So soon as we call him and get it togethor we are picking up a couple chairs from him. Isn't it amazing how that works? I should make him cookies.
I walked out to the Dakota (okay so in my mind I still called the coda) to see what was going on. There was Tyler (who was working with me at the time), Tony, Robbie, Kevin, and Eddie. They were all amazed by something Eddie did, and he was all "Well Tony didn't see it the first time!" and Tyler called me over and was like "Lindy look at this!" and I looked and Eddie had a fricken staple stuck in the large muscle of his forearm. All the way in. I had to walk away, I really did almost throw up. When did I turn into such a weakling? Eddie is more well kept than the other boys, but he has a thing for pain that I don't understand. He was in our store looking at the tongue ring gauges. For those who are wondering (because I didn't know this before I started working here) when a person makes the holes in their ears larger...like large enough to stick a pencil through the holes, this is called gauging, and I learned today that you can gauge any hole. You tongue ring hole, your nipple ring holes, and your vagina ring holes. There's some knowledge relevant to my interests. Also, these holes, if not stretched too big will shrink back to normal size. So Eddie wants to gauge out his tongue, again. He said the fun of doing it was in the pain. Tyler thinks so too. I don't know if I agree with this, but I feel that it has something to do with the adrenalin rush you recieve. And I think it can be addictive. I also don't know how I feel about have a 1/4 inch diameter hole in your tongue as well. Tyler said he knew a girl who had probably a 1 inch gauged out hole in her hoo hoo. All I could think was...if her peircing is that big imagine how big her vagina is!!?!?! (Is vagina the right word? I'm not sure, but I'm refering to the hole the penis goes in and I'm implying that it's GIANT.)
I told my manager, a while back, that I am a huge Lions fan and she goes "Why? You DO know they are 0 and 19?" We are all going to have to forgive her...she's from the south.
I think I have arthritis in my pointer finger and it hurts. (proof that I am getting old).
I also told my manager that Canadian coins are so common in Michigan that they are used as equivelant US coins. She then told me that she thinks Michigan is more part of Canada than the US. Which was of course offensive, and being from the south...she should have known that, so I told her that "Actually, Michigan is the US's first line of defense against Canada." Which she thought was stupid...such a small part of Canada is touching the US there...if they were to invade they'd clearly invade through Minnesota or something.
She also thinks she's very sarcastic.
There are girls in the Mall Rats group too. There is one girl, Fatima, who seems like she might be cool, except she works at Abercrombie and Fitch and likes how their cologne smells. Actually all those boys like how the cologne smells. They claim to be the worlds BIGGEST HIPPIES and yet they also enjoy shopping at Abercrombie and Fitch if they have the money. I told them the story of when I accidently interviewed to be a model there...and they were all "yeah, that's what you do." and the comedy of the situation was completely lost on them. Oh, and really? Abercrombie and Fitch Hippie is an oxy moron. There is a 17 yr. old girl I met the other day. I had to be careful b/c I can tell she was looking up to me and wanted to appear "cool" in front of me. So I tried very hard not to say anything that may have been insulting. Like "Why are you here with a 21 yr old? Where are your parents? Why are you wearing sweatpants? You are silly sounding, and please don't sit on the floor of my store." I need to hang out with more teenage girls..and slowly mold them into little versions of me.
There are also some lesbians that come in and know the boys and maybe some other random girls here and there.
The stupidest one is named Aaron. He has a buzzcut, buck teeth and is the stupidest person I ever met. He stood by the counter scanning his eyes over and over and over again with our scanner, while he told us a story about how he did that for 10 min. at his job while a customer watched and waited for him to notice her. Then Fatima told Aaron that scanning your eyes like that will cause you to go blind. He didn't believe her and kept on doing it. I said nothing.
Now you know.