Rambling on...

[donnad]

Well, we got our truck, 6AM tuesday. It actually arrived at 10:30PM Monday night. The drivers slept in the truck overnight since no one was in the store at that hour. But at 6 AM Tuesday morning with a temperature of 4 df, we unloaded 187 boxes. Brrr... I started out with a sweater and hat and gloves, but trying to cut the strapping with

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doesn't know my name, or my dad?

[cthulhia]

she's not really from utica.
just some damned transient. ;)

except, she obviously knows how to dress for the weather.
so I applaud her ability to avoid reading the local paper or watching local news when she was in Utica. (Otherwise, my dad got mentioned pretty regularly on both, for being the tough judge.)

it's not likely I'd know her. People tend to know my name because of my Dad, not because I've met them. (I don't always recognize the names of my high school class of 300. I'm useless like that.)

Now, if she worked at a fabric store in Utica... (or more to the point, that one on Seneca Turnpike near the Valleybrook) I could start dropping some SCA names that she might know.

Re: doesn't know my name, or my dad?

[donnad]

She didn't recognize your last name, but perhaps if I mention your father was a judge, she might. She is also younger than you or I, she might be 30. I wouldn't be suprized if she didn't read the papers or watch TV, she doesn't seem like the type of person to be interested in current events beyond what is immediately affecting her personally. (I know, that is not very charitable, but that is the way she comes across.)

She was in a JoAnn's store, but I don't know which one. She only moved to this state around the first week in October. She routinely goes back to Utica to visit and she is getting married there next June.

[doctordidj]

> So folks a simple request for the holidays...

Very well said! We could all use a little more kindness and slack at this time of year. Thank you for the reminder, my dear.

[deguspice]

I started out with a sweater and hat and gloves, but trying to cut the strapping with scissors with the gloves on didn't work so I quickly shed the gloves.

Do you know the trick of finding the joint in plastic strapping, twisting it over, and then pulling on the tab to separate the two ends?  The trick makes it much easier to removing the strapping from boxes, but it probably doesn't work well with gloves.

[donnad]

It's also a time thing, we have to open the boxes and empty them as soon as they come in the door, we don't just pile them up and open at our leisure. Each box is opened,emptied and sorted onto carts or into bins while it is still moving on the rollers, if it gets to the end of the track, you have taken too long to empty it. Cutting the strapping with scissors while it is being scanned in is so much faster than rolling the box around looking for the little tabs to pull, and each box has two to four straps depending on how much stuff is in it or how heavy it is.