OH MY GOSH!! It's teh LJ!
Okay, so I know it's been like a billion years, but it's h'okay, mostly just 'cause. At anyrate, I naturally have many stories to tell, naturally taking place at the Wal-Mart fastlane. So let's see here. Wow, I just have to say, mostly 'cause it's on my mind that well, how do I say this...
Basically, I'm writing this with my girlfriend sitting next to me right now, and it pretty much rox, and it rocks hard.. OH YEAH!!!!
right so now that that's out of the way.
So i'm wal-mart, and here's the deal. Working away well you know, "working" (I call it the "Art of working without working" - adapted from Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon martial art fighting style of "Art of fighting without fighting") but I digress. So I'm at the fast lane when a fellow associate named Chontae walks up to me and is all like, Scott you have to go into the mens bathroom because some kid just walked in there with a backpack on and some things stuffed up under his shirt, and he's gonna steal it. blah blah, she said other things I can't remember well, but teh jist of it was that this could was gonna steal a whole bunch of stuff and so she wanted me to go into the bathroom and confront him. Now I'm like ,"hehe, yeah, gg, j/k, no seriously" well actually though I was like, What on earth do you want me to do about it? Now, yes I am a non-confrontational person, but I wasn't just being a schmuck. Our actual store policy makes it so that I'm no allowed to even accuse someone of stealing, can't touch them or pretty much do anything even if they walk up pick up a television (reasonably sized of course) right in front of me, say "I'm stealing this" and then somehow still manage to tip their hat at me (a difficult task whilst carrying a TV) and walk out the door. So anyway, I really like, have no power, sad but true, and prbly better for the world. But anyway. So, then she's like, well, ok We'll just wait till he gets out of the bathroom and then, (VERY DISTRACTED RIGHT NOW, HOLY COW ROCK!! .. but not in an inappropriate way, sweet merciful..) right so uh. ok so wait till he gets out of the bathroom and confront him like saying, we have to check your bag. And I'm like, sweet you do that! Oh! Also, in case you were wondering yes we do have sercurity people, but the whole store in general is about as efficient as a goat trying to tap dance upside down with it's legs tied up. Not that good. So anyway, this gal Chontae she stands outside the bathroom and in front of the front entrance doors waiting for him. Sure enough a little bit later this kid walks out. Now, he must have been maybe 15 or 16 and he was an average sized kid, which means he was about as tall as me and more muscular. Okay, but here's the other thing, and I don't want to sound like a tool, but he was also black. Incidentally, so is Chontae. So basically, I was kinda very relieved that it was going to be her confronting him, so like no one could cop out and get all racism on me. So maybe I'm a little paranoid about that, i dunno, i just didn't want to get accused of stuff. At anyrate, ok so he's walking towards the doors with this backpack on, a pink nike one by the way. So then Chontae gets in front of him and is like "We have to check your bag sir" and he's goes all like punk or whatever you want to call poor english ghetto style. I dunno, but he's just all, "Naww, naww" pretty much just ignoring her and trying to just walk right out of the store. Now, I mean, I don't know what he was thinking but it must have been pretty obvious to him that the jig was up. I mean seriously he was specifically stopped so it isn't like he had any home of pulling of his little heist clean. Yet for some arcane reason, rather than just leaving the stuff and walking away, which he could have and gotten away scott-free (lol), he persisted in trying to steal teh stuff. Dumb.
Okay, anyway, so he keeps trying to get around Chontae, but she's not having none of it. She keeps on persisting that "We can't let you leave the store without checking the bag" and physically getting in front of him, between him and the door.
So then suddenly he like bolts!!!
Like, he can't get around her so makes a dash for the doorway that is across the entry, like there's two doors, and entrance one and an exit one, but they both work either way, so at anyrate he starts flat out running, making his bid for freedom I guess and like he actually gets out of the doorway (at which point he screwed himself, 'cause he officially stole the stuff as soon as we was out of the door).
But Chontae, well, she's a fairly new cashier. So she wasn't exactly aware of the store policy and such.
So she bolts after this kid yelling "HOLD UP!! HOLD UP!!" and like, so they collide as she grabs him by the shirt and he's trying to wrestle away from her while she's trying to wrestle him back, like, no joke the kid's sandal goes flying into the air. Meanwhile, one of our interns, who like is in college and stuff and went through Marine Boot Camp but got kicked out 'cause he flat feet or some crap, who's like, well big, so he sees some guy wrestling around with a female co-worker (and Chontae's not big, she's like my height and stuff and only 21 years old) and he's just like, "OH Nuh UH!! not on my watch!!" so he starts taking big freaking power steps with this "I'm gonna friggin rock you" look on his face till he's on this guy and he just like put's one arm around him and drags him away. It was amazing. So anyway, yeah, the kid just wilts at this point and he get's escoted to our little security room with our intern guy for a little "chat". So the cops are called and away he goes in cuffs. Aparently he had ripped open a whole bunch of walkie talkies and stuff out of the boxes in the bathroom and stuffed them in his bag. So yea, he's pretty much screwed.
But anyway, that was like, insane. Like it all happened right in front of me. He went running and Chontae just pwned him. Lol, pwned. ....
trying so hard to focus on anytihing but girl, sweet, holy, uhm, she's just so powerful
uh.. right okay. Well, I can't actually remember any other Wal-Mart stories of note at the moment. Either they never existed or they've been knocked from my head temporarily by a certain marvelous and gorgeous set, pair, couple of .. x chromosomes. What were you thinking? Anyway, yeah, so maybe if it comes back to me then I'll write about it.
Righto.
So, I've also started watching a little anime again. Very exciting. And bad for me, but that's okay. (no, i suppose it really isn't even if I say that huh?). Yeah, but like, so the one I'm on right now is new and it is still in progress 'cause like there's only 10 episodes out right now. It's called "Ergo Proxy" and it's pretty good actually. I recomend it. The beginning intro thingy is actually pretty cool and the end credits, well not too shabby. ;) (OMG RADIOHEAD) So yeah. Also, I still have to show Holly "Elfen Lied", but I'm debating on whether or not she'd actually like it. Also would have to explain/get her to ignore the, uhm .. cultural differences in appropriate drawing of cartoon depictions ... kekeke nekkid keke.
anyway so yeah. ("Does that say naked?" -- Holly) ... ("Goose monkey" -- Holly), well, I just got hit for that second one. Oh well, trials and tribulations I s'pose.
Okay, so there's my little plug for Ergo Proxy. Anyone have any recommendations for other stuff?
Also, so like, I was reading Lynette's (i dunno if using your real name is kosher, 'cause I noticed you say "Narnia" and so forth rather than the persons real name, unless that is their name...) list of must read and/or simply rather tasty literature, and I must agree. Though I haven't read all of them I will say this. Jeregh or however it's spelled I would def reccomend as one) it's about dragons or something i think
and two)it is also highly reccomended by Tycho from Penny Arcade. Yep. So anyway. I have read "Sunshine" and I enjoyed that a lot. Yes I am a HUGE vampire fanboy but just as she described it takes a different road. I think so. Let's see, "The Black Sun Trilogy" or chronicles or whatever it was by C.S. Friedman, yeah, REALLY GOOD. Like, those book alone pretty much single handedly got me to play masquerade I think. The dude pwns ALL. Okay, so actually most things by C.S. Friedman that I've read I liked, so I'd recommend other uhm stuff, too. Then of course there's the "Kushiel's Dart" series. Yesss....
Those of you that know me, well know me, and would naturally understand or comprehend how I might .. appreciate those works. teehee. But truth be told that is really just the backdrop for the real meat of the books which is all about scheming and politcal intrigue with a dose of action adventure and war stuff thrown in. I liked it a fair deal. But DEFINATELY NOT for those who are squeemish or who ahem, are uncomfortable with behaviors that just aren't their cup of tea. Like, I would never actually want to emulate the crazy ehh proclivites the main character, but I certainly wasn't bothered by reading about them either. So yess..
Also, like it seems that I'm surrounded by people who are getting married. Like, I have a friend from highschool who's engaged, my roomate at bethel is engaged, and another friend from highschool got married about a month ago. Like, what's the deal yo?! I mean, on the one hand it's really weird 'cause they're all SO young, i mean, they're all my age and stuff, and I'm just like, married already - good grief!!
But on the other hand, I'm madly jealous that they're all having sex and I'm not. Grr. Scruples and morals. Sigh. But there's simply no other way for me that would make me equally happy. The long road for me.
OH, also, so my grandma is living with us now. Like, since my grandpa died over spring break and stuff, she has been living with my Aunt (my dad's sister) and now she's going to be staying with us for a bit. So that's been a little different. I can't act all willy nilly so much or go out just whenever, 'cause we all need to help take care of her and keep her company and also just watch her to make sure she's okay. 'Cause like in addition to losing her husband of a million years (I can't even comprehend what that was like) she is also blind, and we're pretty sure that now she has Alzheimers. So yes, we have to watch her and stuff. Which is fine 'cause she's pretty great and stuff, but you know, different.
Oh yeah! So also, Holly bought a new car that doens't turn off randomly, so that was pretty exciting. It's like this luxury model Ford Focus thing in black. And I like it. It even has seats taht will make my booty warm at the touch of a button. Of course my booty is a-l-w-a-y-s SMOK'N HOT! OH YEAH!!! well, not really, but i had to say it. I guess she got like 1.9% interest rate with no credit, so that's pretty good I think. Oh pretty girls, ;) No actually she got that without feminine wiles ("Roll it!.. Natural 20!!") but it prbly didn't hurt.
Speaking of, I have of course continued to think up of new Dungeons and Dragons characters that will never see the light of day. Is it odd that I make characters that I'm never going to play with? Perhaps. But my newest one is the super pimp character. Actually freak'n hilarious is more like it. It's a Rouge/Paladin Pixie. Heck yes a pixie!! Have you seen their dex mod?! It's plus 8!!! and the Cha is like plus 6!! yeah it has a plus 4 level adjustment, but it's totally worth it!
I wonder if Bethel has people that play Dungeons and Dragons? ... rofl lol rofl. but maybe...
Let's see...
Well, that's like all I got for right now I think. ... maybe more later. :)
K
bye kiddies!
Basically, I'm writing this with my girlfriend sitting next to me right now, and it pretty much rox, and it rocks hard.. OH YEAH!!!!
right so now that that's out of the way.
So i'm wal-mart, and here's the deal. Working away well you know, "working" (I call it the "Art of working without working" - adapted from Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon martial art fighting style of "Art of fighting without fighting") but I digress. So I'm at the fast lane when a fellow associate named Chontae walks up to me and is all like, Scott you have to go into the mens bathroom because some kid just walked in there with a backpack on and some things stuffed up under his shirt, and he's gonna steal it. blah blah, she said other things I can't remember well, but teh jist of it was that this could was gonna steal a whole bunch of stuff and so she wanted me to go into the bathroom and confront him. Now I'm like ,"hehe, yeah, gg, j/k, no seriously" well actually though I was like, What on earth do you want me to do about it? Now, yes I am a non-confrontational person, but I wasn't just being a schmuck. Our actual store policy makes it so that I'm no allowed to even accuse someone of stealing, can't touch them or pretty much do anything even if they walk up pick up a television (reasonably sized of course) right in front of me, say "I'm stealing this" and then somehow still manage to tip their hat at me (a difficult task whilst carrying a TV) and walk out the door. So anyway, I really like, have no power, sad but true, and prbly better for the world. But anyway. So, then she's like, well, ok We'll just wait till he gets out of the bathroom and then, (VERY DISTRACTED RIGHT NOW, HOLY COW ROCK!! .. but not in an inappropriate way, sweet merciful..) right so uh. ok so wait till he gets out of the bathroom and confront him like saying, we have to check your bag. And I'm like, sweet you do that! Oh! Also, in case you were wondering yes we do have sercurity people, but the whole store in general is about as efficient as a goat trying to tap dance upside down with it's legs tied up. Not that good. So anyway, this gal Chontae she stands outside the bathroom and in front of the front entrance doors waiting for him. Sure enough a little bit later this kid walks out. Now, he must have been maybe 15 or 16 and he was an average sized kid, which means he was about as tall as me and more muscular. Okay, but here's the other thing, and I don't want to sound like a tool, but he was also black. Incidentally, so is Chontae. So basically, I was kinda very relieved that it was going to be her confronting him, so like no one could cop out and get all racism on me. So maybe I'm a little paranoid about that, i dunno, i just didn't want to get accused of stuff. At anyrate, ok so he's walking towards the doors with this backpack on, a pink nike one by the way. So then Chontae gets in front of him and is like "We have to check your bag sir" and he's goes all like punk or whatever you want to call poor english ghetto style. I dunno, but he's just all, "Naww, naww" pretty much just ignoring her and trying to just walk right out of the store. Now, I mean, I don't know what he was thinking but it must have been pretty obvious to him that the jig was up. I mean seriously he was specifically stopped so it isn't like he had any home of pulling of his little heist clean. Yet for some arcane reason, rather than just leaving the stuff and walking away, which he could have and gotten away scott-free (lol), he persisted in trying to steal teh stuff. Dumb.
Okay, anyway, so he keeps trying to get around Chontae, but she's not having none of it. She keeps on persisting that "We can't let you leave the store without checking the bag" and physically getting in front of him, between him and the door.
So then suddenly he like bolts!!!
Like, he can't get around her so makes a dash for the doorway that is across the entry, like there's two doors, and entrance one and an exit one, but they both work either way, so at anyrate he starts flat out running, making his bid for freedom I guess and like he actually gets out of the doorway (at which point he screwed himself, 'cause he officially stole the stuff as soon as we was out of the door).
But Chontae, well, she's a fairly new cashier. So she wasn't exactly aware of the store policy and such.
So she bolts after this kid yelling "HOLD UP!! HOLD UP!!" and like, so they collide as she grabs him by the shirt and he's trying to wrestle away from her while she's trying to wrestle him back, like, no joke the kid's sandal goes flying into the air. Meanwhile, one of our interns, who like is in college and stuff and went through Marine Boot Camp but got kicked out 'cause he flat feet or some crap, who's like, well big, so he sees some guy wrestling around with a female co-worker (and Chontae's not big, she's like my height and stuff and only 21 years old) and he's just like, "OH Nuh UH!! not on my watch!!" so he starts taking big freaking power steps with this "I'm gonna friggin rock you" look on his face till he's on this guy and he just like put's one arm around him and drags him away. It was amazing. So anyway, yeah, the kid just wilts at this point and he get's escoted to our little security room with our intern guy for a little "chat". So the cops are called and away he goes in cuffs. Aparently he had ripped open a whole bunch of walkie talkies and stuff out of the boxes in the bathroom and stuffed them in his bag. So yea, he's pretty much screwed.
But anyway, that was like, insane. Like it all happened right in front of me. He went running and Chontae just pwned him. Lol, pwned. ....
trying so hard to focus on anytihing but girl, sweet, holy, uhm, she's just so powerful
uh.. right okay. Well, I can't actually remember any other Wal-Mart stories of note at the moment. Either they never existed or they've been knocked from my head temporarily by a certain marvelous and gorgeous set, pair, couple of .. x chromosomes. What were you thinking? Anyway, yeah, so maybe if it comes back to me then I'll write about it.
Righto.
So, I've also started watching a little anime again. Very exciting. And bad for me, but that's okay. (no, i suppose it really isn't even if I say that huh?). Yeah, but like, so the one I'm on right now is new and it is still in progress 'cause like there's only 10 episodes out right now. It's called "Ergo Proxy" and it's pretty good actually. I recomend it. The beginning intro thingy is actually pretty cool and the end credits, well not too shabby. ;) (OMG RADIOHEAD) So yeah. Also, I still have to show Holly "Elfen Lied", but I'm debating on whether or not she'd actually like it. Also would have to explain/get her to ignore the, uhm .. cultural differences in appropriate drawing of cartoon depictions ... kekeke nekkid keke.
anyway so yeah. ("Does that say naked?" -- Holly) ... ("Goose monkey" -- Holly), well, I just got hit for that second one. Oh well, trials and tribulations I s'pose.
Okay, so there's my little plug for Ergo Proxy. Anyone have any recommendations for other stuff?
Also, so like, I was reading Lynette's (i dunno if using your real name is kosher, 'cause I noticed you say "Narnia" and so forth rather than the persons real name, unless that is their name...) list of must read and/or simply rather tasty literature, and I must agree. Though I haven't read all of them I will say this. Jeregh or however it's spelled I would def reccomend as one) it's about dragons or something i think
and two)it is also highly reccomended by Tycho from Penny Arcade. Yep. So anyway. I have read "Sunshine" and I enjoyed that a lot. Yes I am a HUGE vampire fanboy but just as she described it takes a different road. I think so. Let's see, "The Black Sun Trilogy" or chronicles or whatever it was by C.S. Friedman, yeah, REALLY GOOD. Like, those book alone pretty much single handedly got me to play masquerade I think. The dude pwns ALL. Okay, so actually most things by C.S. Friedman that I've read I liked, so I'd recommend other uhm stuff, too. Then of course there's the "Kushiel's Dart" series. Yesss....
Those of you that know me, well know me, and would naturally understand or comprehend how I might .. appreciate those works. teehee. But truth be told that is really just the backdrop for the real meat of the books which is all about scheming and politcal intrigue with a dose of action adventure and war stuff thrown in. I liked it a fair deal. But DEFINATELY NOT for those who are squeemish or who ahem, are uncomfortable with behaviors that just aren't their cup of tea. Like, I would never actually want to emulate the crazy ehh proclivites the main character, but I certainly wasn't bothered by reading about them either. So yess..
Also, like it seems that I'm surrounded by people who are getting married. Like, I have a friend from highschool who's engaged, my roomate at bethel is engaged, and another friend from highschool got married about a month ago. Like, what's the deal yo?! I mean, on the one hand it's really weird 'cause they're all SO young, i mean, they're all my age and stuff, and I'm just like, married already - good grief!!
But on the other hand, I'm madly jealous that they're all having sex and I'm not. Grr. Scruples and morals. Sigh. But there's simply no other way for me that would make me equally happy. The long road for me.
OH, also, so my grandma is living with us now. Like, since my grandpa died over spring break and stuff, she has been living with my Aunt (my dad's sister) and now she's going to be staying with us for a bit. So that's been a little different. I can't act all willy nilly so much or go out just whenever, 'cause we all need to help take care of her and keep her company and also just watch her to make sure she's okay. 'Cause like in addition to losing her husband of a million years (I can't even comprehend what that was like) she is also blind, and we're pretty sure that now she has Alzheimers. So yes, we have to watch her and stuff. Which is fine 'cause she's pretty great and stuff, but you know, different.
Oh yeah! So also, Holly bought a new car that doens't turn off randomly, so that was pretty exciting. It's like this luxury model Ford Focus thing in black. And I like it. It even has seats taht will make my booty warm at the touch of a button. Of course my booty is a-l-w-a-y-s SMOK'N HOT! OH YEAH!!! well, not really, but i had to say it. I guess she got like 1.9% interest rate with no credit, so that's pretty good I think. Oh pretty girls, ;) No actually she got that without feminine wiles ("Roll it!.. Natural 20!!") but it prbly didn't hurt.
Speaking of, I have of course continued to think up of new Dungeons and Dragons characters that will never see the light of day. Is it odd that I make characters that I'm never going to play with? Perhaps. But my newest one is the super pimp character. Actually freak'n hilarious is more like it. It's a Rouge/Paladin Pixie. Heck yes a pixie!! Have you seen their dex mod?! It's plus 8!!! and the Cha is like plus 6!! yeah it has a plus 4 level adjustment, but it's totally worth it!
I wonder if Bethel has people that play Dungeons and Dragons? ... rofl lol rofl. but maybe...
Let's see...
Well, that's like all I got for right now I think. ... maybe more later. :)
K
bye kiddies!