Category Archives: musings

The gutter of my mind.

Chicken

There is a KFC by my house that reopened recently after renovation. I happen to discover that their chicken is freaking delicious. The only problem is actually obtaining the chicken. You can’t just walk into a KFC and buy some chicken.  You have to earn that chicken. The cashier girl is nice but still new [...]

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Puppy Holocaust

The other day a wire came down from corporate: No more dogs in the store starting next year. Apparently my coworkers are a bunch of dog-lovers because this is being dubbed the Puppy Holocaust. I am completely indifferent on whether or not dogs are allowed in the store.  The only thing I am concerned about [...]

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Compartmentalize

As a cashier I have several hundred people who know me on a one-way first name basis. That makes me famous like a celebrity except for me, at least, there is nothing advantageous about the situation. I like every aspect of my life separated from one another. The exposure from being a cashier makes it [...]

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Catfish

At our store we have a HR person. The company reminds us constantly how lucky we are to have a HR department. The store employees tend to disagree. The HR lady is a rather unpleasant woman that we all try to avoid. She was born without a sense of humor. She gets haughty if the [...]

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Cheeky Key

Our key duplicating machine has been at it again. It has an act, think R2D2, it puts on with chirping and whistling to attract customers. The machine had a rather amusing nonverbal interaction with one lady this week. She had her back to the machine enraptured over the myriad of options we offer for winterizing [...]

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