On a whim, I happened to be looking at the editorial section of the Trib today at work. I was on break, I was bored, it was there. It was serindipitous. For some reason, there were only about four pages of the paper actually present, so my options were limited. I glanced at the reader letters. Most were mundane, some were trite, some were outraged ( Read more... )

I worked till close last night, which effectively led to me hating the consumer population as a whole. We closed at 7, while basically every other store (including Walmart) closed at 6, which meant a huge influx of customers at about 6:15. The PA started delivering the "FYI, we're closing" messages at 6, increasing in frequency to every five ( Read more... )