Tuesday, February 24, 2009

I am not alone

Someone came by here just yesterday looking for "j_jenny_patch@yahoo" (she's the one I posted about here), and I thought to myself, "That girl must get around."

Not that there's anything wrong with getting around - been out of the yard a couple times myself this last week.

In fact, just last Saturday we were down at Lenny's Bar and Grill and Swap Meet for a burger and fries and a frosty bowl, on our way home from running some errands. Lenny was working the bar like he usually does weekend mid-days, and Wendy was working the grill.

Lenny sips a bit while he's working - mostly sweet tea, which goes through a body pretty fast, and he had made a quick trip to relieve the pressure (which only put more pressure on Wendy, but of course that's a whole 'nother issue).

So Wendy is working the grill for those of us with our orders in, and keeping half a side-eye on the front, when in comes an obvious tourist: t-shirt, over-stuffed fanny-pack, the whole nine yards.

She pauses inside the door to let her eyes adjust from the Texas sunshine, then stalks over to one of the three empty tables left in the room and sits down.

Wendy brings her a menu and asks what she'd like to drink - the usual routine- and the gal orders a cup of coffee.

Now, Lenny is not known for his coffee. Morning with eggs, noon with a burger, Lenny is not known for his coffee. He makes his tea every morning fresh, boils up the sugar for the simple syrup to make it sweet, but Lenny's coffee is more likely made last week than this. Wendy writes the request down on her little pad anyways, and says, "You're not from near here, are you? Where're you from?"

And darned if that little tourist didn't suck herself up all upright before she said, "I’m from New England where we don’t end sentences with prepositions."

It takes more than that to throw Wendy off her stride. Quicker-than-you-can-blink she says, "So where're you from, Miss Holier-than-thou*?"



*I have heard of similar events occurring in other places. Not all of the waitresses in those tales have maintained their composure as thoroughly as Wendy did, and I have recommended to Lenny that he give her a raise.


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Thursday, February 12, 2009

I can't read!

I thought about the peanut/salmonella fiasco a moment ago, which reminded me that I have some Girl Scout cookies in the freezer: the peanut-butter sandwich ones. And I'm starting to get hungry. Not famished, just I-need-a-little-something-to-take-the-edge-off. Not time for a Lenny's Bar and Grill and Swapmeet run; just a snack.

So I thought, "I need a photo of those cookies." And I don't take pics, I Google 'em. So I Googled "peanut butter sandwich cookies" and found this:





What a deal.


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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Which is it?

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Gotta just love the ads on the social sites.


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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Heheheh

This just in from MSNBC:

United to unplug number for complaints

United Airlines has decided that their customers get better results by writing or emailing customer-service representatives stateside, so they're shutting down the unit they out-sourced to India to handle the complaint calls.

They're finally catching on.

I chase squirrels, they run. That's sorta like an airline: they fly planes, people sit in 'em.*

I bark, the squirrels chatter. I ignore the chatter and keep barking. UA has the system figured out; they just have to erase the vestiges of pretending to care, one step at a time.


*Disclosure: I have never lost luggage belonging to a squirrel.


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Saturday, February 07, 2009

The end of the Nigerian scams

Just got a message over at the social site, and I'm not at all sure what to make of it; I thought Tom took care of all the weirdos:

Not bad at all! Can you please tell me more about you sweetie? Well okay, to be fair, I should tell you more about me. This is not my profile, I'm borrowing this from my roommate. Not a member of this site ;-) I'm very cute, I have a few of tattoos, and I have long hair, a beaming smile and legs to die for! I have a great personality too! I'm open-minded and have a sunny disposition. I also enjoy watching tv, clips on youtube, playing pool and listening to music. I really like chilling out with friends. Why don..t you give me a shout? Just don..t reply directly to my message. Use my email instead at j_jenny_patch@yahoo.

later!


I'm tempted to set up a one-time-use yahoo account and let it be known that this sounds like a punctuation-impaired cocker spaniel until you get to the playing pool part, where it sounds more like a great Dane.

I got a better idea: I'll call 876-5309 and talk to Jenny.


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