Dudes, sometimes they make me crazy, but I love my family hardcore. Take, for example, the exchange I just had with Brother_Geek. He's growing his hair out for Locks for Love, and I'm not gonna lie, I have some major hair envy. He's got these giant curls, and his hair's remarkably frizz-free, and he can just wash it and it looks pretty much perfect ( Read more... )

I swear that people get more entitled, rude, and stupid on long weekends. Here is what inevitably happens every single holiday at The Mermaid: The phone rings four hundred billion times with people asking if we're open. Sometimes they're nice about it. Sometimes they hang up right after you've told them, yes, we're open until 10 tonight. Sometimes ( Read more... )

Most Terrifying: Yesterday, at work, two teenaged girls sat down at the counter with their drinks and began perusing a newspaper that had been left behind by a previous customer. There was an article on Kurt Cobain and they looked at it and made confused faces. "Who's Kurt Cobain?" the first girl asked ( Read more... )

Guys, I just had to buy twenty yards of black felt on Halloween. For the love of crap, it was so ridiculous. No one had any! I finally found some and bought twenty meters. Honestly, you guys, I am just so pretty sometimes. It turns out that the meter thing was all right, because the stage is longer than my co-assistant had originally thought, but ( Read more... )

Sometimes Zoe and I have a really creepy mindmeld. Like, beyond normal best friend, finish-each-other's-sentences kind of creepy. Today is a good example of that. I had the day off work, and we had no groceries, so I went out to the grocery store and bought a whole lot of vegetables, two avocadoes for guacamole, bananas, and apples for apple crisp ( Read more... )

A few months ago, I played this really hilarious game with cloudlessclimes. Basically the rules of the game were this:

1. I say "Frank!"
2. cloudlessclimes claps her hands and makes a ridiculous face.

It was a fun game.

So yesterday, karma decided to play this little game with me. I was working drive-through, taking people's money and handing coffee out the window, and the ( Read more... )

Hey, guys! It has been a while since I posted an Actual Conversation, and since this one is so mind-boggling, I figured it was about time I started again ( Read more... )