Weird stuff...
Ok, first of all I want to add a link to my new interview at http://www.deutschmusikland.com/interviews/interview_outsidersjoy.php because it's really great!! I think it's really funny & pretty much everyone who has read it liked it & thought the guy was really smart, which I also agree with, it's not just funny, it's very smart... so please check that out..
Now for the weird stuff.. I took the boys to WalMart, which is actually a place I hate above all others but it can be cheap at times... so we go look for shoes & this woman is there with maybe a 3 yr old child & she stops & suddenly the child is asking me if there are childrens shoes there... One thing needs to be explained, I am wearing a black Pesticide shirt, black jeans & have a big wallet chain hanging on my hip... I do NOT look like an employee!! & this woman is waiting for me to reply to her child!! So I'm looking about & had passed kid shoes so, after looking at her a couple times, wondering why she is waiting for me to reply to this question that I clearly shouldn't know the answer to, I tell him there are kid shoes "there & there", pointing in various directions & THEN the mother smiles & said he must have thought I worked there, WTF... & my son said that was the most helpful he'd ever seen me... jerk!! I go to the grocery all the time & people are like, "Where's the cat food??" or smoked salmon or soup... one dude was even being a dick & I STILL showed him where the thing he was looking for was & I don't even fucking work there!!
So, back to Walmart: Then my brother-in-law showed up, totally random, & I didn't even recognize him at first & then we ran into this girl I used to work with, who works there now & she said she never stopped at my work unless I was there & I was never there when she went by.. Pretty sweet that people will only stop & get food if *I* am there... that's a real esteem boost, lol... But, ok, adding to the Wally-World weirdness... We're looking at pens & shit & suddenly some really old dude comes up to me & asks where we keep electric pencil sharpeners & I'm like, "I don't know, I don't work here." But I'm thinking, "Why the fuck does everyone (although "everyone" is a 3 yr old & a really old guy, haha) think I work here?!?!?!" & then some college type girl asked where to find a composition notebook & I just gave up, showed her all they had that we had seen.. Wally-World is like a world all unto itself... it's like entering the Twilight Zone..
I bought a couple cool things though but... I'll save that for another time I think...
Now for the weird stuff.. I took the boys to WalMart, which is actually a place I hate above all others but it can be cheap at times... so we go look for shoes & this woman is there with maybe a 3 yr old child & she stops & suddenly the child is asking me if there are childrens shoes there... One thing needs to be explained, I am wearing a black Pesticide shirt, black jeans & have a big wallet chain hanging on my hip... I do NOT look like an employee!! & this woman is waiting for me to reply to her child!! So I'm looking about & had passed kid shoes so, after looking at her a couple times, wondering why she is waiting for me to reply to this question that I clearly shouldn't know the answer to, I tell him there are kid shoes "there & there", pointing in various directions & THEN the mother smiles & said he must have thought I worked there, WTF... & my son said that was the most helpful he'd ever seen me... jerk!! I go to the grocery all the time & people are like, "Where's the cat food??" or smoked salmon or soup... one dude was even being a dick & I STILL showed him where the thing he was looking for was & I don't even fucking work there!!
So, back to Walmart: Then my brother-in-law showed up, totally random, & I didn't even recognize him at first & then we ran into this girl I used to work with, who works there now & she said she never stopped at my work unless I was there & I was never there when she went by.. Pretty sweet that people will only stop & get food if *I* am there... that's a real esteem boost, lol... But, ok, adding to the Wally-World weirdness... We're looking at pens & shit & suddenly some really old dude comes up to me & asks where we keep electric pencil sharpeners & I'm like, "I don't know, I don't work here." But I'm thinking, "Why the fuck does everyone (although "everyone" is a 3 yr old & a really old guy, haha) think I work here?!?!?!" & then some college type girl asked where to find a composition notebook & I just gave up, showed her all they had that we had seen.. Wally-World is like a world all unto itself... it's like entering the Twilight Zone..
I bought a couple cool things though but... I'll save that for another time I think...