I love you, but I’m not going to reinforce your bad habits.

They say infants lack object permanence, but as a child you then think everything is permanent.  It then comes as a big shock then when you realize that an’t so.

Back when I started to work on ambulances, the service I was with was still wearing all white uniforms.  A hold over from the days of “scope and run”; the men in the white jackets are coming for you, etc.  Ever try to keep white pants clean in a dirty occupation?  After much lobbying we finally got permission to ditch the white paints for blue ones with a white shirt.  Now it seems their all wearing dark uniforms, so it went from one extreme to the next.

One time we responded to a neighboring services request for a paramedic.  They were still wearing all white and commented on how we looked unprofessional with our blue paints.  Cloths don’t always make the medic.

We all have our cross to bear; it’s just that some of us have heavier ones than others.

Post #1300

It’s always time, no matter what’s going on.

I’ve been involved in customer service for decades and the level of service doesn’t always correspond with the size of the company.  For big doesn’t always mean unfriendly and small mean more personable.  I’ve been associated with big companies that offered excellent service and ones that didn’t.  One small outfit I worked with, I was pretty much the customer service department.  While I did my best to help our customers, the owner seemed determined to undermine my efforts.  So you never know.  As they say, it’s not the size that matters, but rather what you do with it.

Negative opinions of strangers don’t matter to me, why should they?  I have nothing invested in knowing them, so their opinions just don’t count in my perceptions of reality.

There’s a song from an old group that has the line, “Hold on one more day”, easy for them to say.

I always tell the truth, as little as I can get away with at least 😉

Do you ever get the feeling that you’re rushing into your demise.  Stop it and take a breath before you encounter that cliff.

The reason I don’t tell people my ideas is because I’ll get unsolicited advice on how they think I should be able to do it better.  Thanks but no thanks, I’m still going to do it my way, since it was my idea.  You don’t get to come in and co-op it.

The problem with a lot of people is that they don’t bother to understand what their getting themselves into.  Rather they ass(u)me they understand it.  Then when the reality of what they’ve done rears its ugly head, they blame the entity that they contracted with.  They’ll accuse them of lying to them or scamming them.  When in fact that entity did neither, for they knew that they wouldn’t have too.  Because people like to live in their ignorance and believe what they want too.  Then when they discover reality, it’s everyone else’s fault but theirs.  If they really want to hold someone accountable all they have to do is look in the mirror and the responsible party will be looking right back at them while I move to my Cabin In The Woods to get away from them.

Every living thing is born to die.

It’s sad when you’re living life large, but don’t plan for when it’s ends.  For it will cool off and end, no one’s hot forever.  Save $$ for the quiet times that follow.

You sit there and wonder why you seem to be stuck in low paying, crappy jobs, while others are doing better.  Mostly it’s because they built upon the basics they started with, while you stayed stagnate.

Someone asked me why I don’t take temp jobs?  The reason is simple, if you don’t want me for the long haul, what’s the point?  I don’t want to learn something that in three months I’ll have no use for.

Stop double checking your work and get it wrong the first time!

Back in 1980’s when I entered EMS, electronics weren’t small or light.  The pagers back then would pull your pants down.  Well one paramedic asked for a replacement for his since the one he had didn’t work anymore and he didn’t know why.  Well we would get those pagers repaired since they were so expensive and definitely not disposable.  When the pager tech (that use to be a job) opened said pager to see what might be wrong with it, water came out.  The truth then came out, what actually happened was the pager had slide off his belt and into the toilet and they were desperately hoping no one figured it out.  After all, who wants to admit they let that happen.

I’m an emperfect person trying to create perfection.  What are the odds of that actually happening?

They’re in a final desperate plunge to control what’s no longer theirs to control.  For in their delusions, they still think it’s a possibility and will never accept it isn’t.

If I don’t ask, then I’ll screw it up.

Before our first Unit arrived I and the spouse took a bus tour of Ireland.  One of our fellow travelers had just one complaint during the tour.  The lack of availability of Pepsi at local establishments.  Finally we arrived at a village and one of the small stores stocked it.  I guess everyone was sick of her complaining because independent of each other, we all bought her enough Pepsi to last the rest of the trip.

At a former employer (I’ve had a lot of those) one of workers was sitting at the end of a table in the cafeteria with her head down.  Even thou it was crowded with people eating lunch, their ass(u)mption that she was napping were misguided.  She was actually unconscious.  Finally someone realized and tried to wake them, when they couldn’t, then 911 was summoned.

I use to be a hard worker, now I’m just a disinterested one where adequate is fine.

I’m a clown with a frown, with no smile deep down.

They’re a seeker of knowledge, just not a doer of anything.

I hate when people say good morning to me.  For if it was truly a good morning, I’d still be in my bed sleeping!

Health insurance should have a stupid clause, but doesn’t.  Why you might ask or not?  Once I was working with a claim where the girl was going out that night, put on her jeans, then decided they were wrinkled and proceeded to iron them while still wearing them.  She got second degree burns from her laziness.  Can such a claim be denied, nope, it’s covered?  Another reason for a Cabin In The Woods.

It’s hard to argue with self, but people do it just the same.

Post #1275

The spouse was driving to work the other day when they spotted something standing in the road that they couldn’t identify.  To their amazement it was a chicken, which is unusual around here since we’re nowhere near farming country.  I was aware that a house on that road had chickens; I guess I should have told them.

I finally figured out work places social behavior.  They’re the diehard Homo sapiens that have been there since the beginning of human grunting.  Then there’s the cast of characters that make their appearance and then disappear like Cro-Magnon and this is why nothing gets done.  The two just don’t mix.

They may not want to accept the outcome, but they’ll have to live with it.

It’s a temporary solution to a long term problem; that should solve everything, right?

At my first real paying job I made $3 an hour which was a big thing at the time since minimum wage was at $2.90 an hour.  My boss just rounded it up, said it made the math easier.  I was working as an assistant to a land surveyor.  On my first day I over slept, probably why I’m always early to work now.  Anyhow on that job we were measuring a square house, which was supposed to be 24 x 24 x 24 x 24 feet according to the plans we had.  On the first try we got 24 x 24 x 24 x 23 feet.  Now my boss liked to swear and that he did at me because he was sure I was somehow screwing up by not holding my end of the tape correctly.  Well we did it two more times and he apologized for whoever built the house was a foot short and we were the first to notice it.  Some carpenter either couldn’t measure apparently or at the very least follow the plans or they decided to steal the money saved by taking away that foot.

On another site I was holding a measuring stick out in the middle of a field in the heat.  The surveyor was looking at the stick thru his lens when all of sudden it wasn’t there.  When he looked up, I had fainted from the heat.  From then on, no matter the temp, I was required to drink a lot of water.  But I was still making $3 an hour, while my friends we slaving away at $2.90.

One my children is currently employed at a JC Penny that is in the process of closing.  One day they were wandering around the third floor of the building where the offices are and found a closet with pictures of people who had retired from the store.  One that struck him was a photo of a lady who was a typist for 32 years for the store when she retired.  They had no idea what that even was.  A couple of weeks later they were wandering around again and found the typists office and all her equipment was still in it, unused for years.  Kind of sad to think that she spent all those years in a small window less room typing up whatever was needed.  At least she got a pension out of it.

A friend of mine once gave me a small tent that had a dome for the top of your body and a tube to put your legs in sticking out the back.  They used it a couple of times until something walked over their legs one night.  I used it once, but was so paranoid about something walking over me that I ended up in the fetal position in the dome, never used it again.

There’s no threats; just reality, keep that in mind.

There’s a method to their madness, since their madness is a direct result of the method.

In Basketball I’m a streaky shooter, one second I have a hot hand, the rest of the time not.

I walked into the bathroom and there’s this guy standing at the urine with his dress pants around his ankles.  Really?  Is it that big that you need to do that?  Most likely not, pleaze don’t drop your draws in public, someone might get the wrong idea in the future.

You forgot to, so now you got too.

I have a long attention span, but not when it comes to bullsh*t, then it becomes very short!

They’re a one horse pony.

I was hired to work a retail position once and the manager set me up to train with what he called his top cashier.  Thou he did advise me that her cup of water, wasn’t in fact water, but gin.  Apparently she sipped it all day long and the buzz helped her function and management didn’t care.  About six months later she disappeared into rehab and was never seen again.  Perhaps she moved to a Cabin In The Woods?

Someone just sneezed, it sounded pretty scary.  I was hesitant in saying bless you, didn’t seem right.

Lots of companies try to rebrand themselves thinking it will make people forget their crappy service under the old name.  Problem is; it doesn’t, no matter how you repackage it, if it’s the same lousy service as before, the new name won’t change that.  How about improving the crap you’re pushing so it doesn’t stink anymore, that’s an idea.

There are days I want to continue forever and then there are times I want to stop it all now.

Saw an article about someone being evicted from their dream house; it was meant to be sad.  Sometimes dreams just aren’t meant to be or should be.  Just because you can dream it, doesn’t always mean you should get it.  I have had dreams and still no Cabin In The Woods.

I want to take an adventure that has no end date.

When I was a child my Dad would let our seven heads of hair grow and then he’d give us brush cuts to save money.  When I was first truly on my own I’d let my hair grow because I didn’t have the money to pay the barber.  Now I have the money, I only wish I had the hair to cut.

Are you naked from the waist down?  Wishing you weren’t?  Wishing it was all a dream.  Well keep on wishing and welcome to reality!

Just because it looks, tastes and smells like a sausage, don’t mean it still an’t just a tubular unit packed with sh*t.  You can pack a lot of pieces/parts from unknown sources in those casings.

Did they really ever leave, much less come back?

I fall.  Others reach out to offer a helping hand.  Should I just shrug them off?  So I can continue to go it alone.  Or should I accept their help and not read anything into it?

Post #1250

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to have children, it’s what can become of them that’s wrong.

I’ve meet yet another indispensable company backbone that hasn’t notice yet that we manage to survive and thrive despite their being gone for a week.  Yes the company did give them a title; it just didn’t come with any real power and yes; we still don’t listen to you.

I understand way to much about way to little.

Scene opens on a box of Italian cookies left open and crawling with ants on a picnic table.  A disheveled and dirty man enters from the shadows, picks up a cookie, brushes the ants off it and proceeds to eat.  For he still has his hunger and a small amount of self-respect; by not eating the ants.  Others waste is fine, not so with ants, what they ever do to him?  Their just doing what nature intended of them, unlike the others.

You know just enough to make you look stupid when the real questions are asked.

There are two sides to every story and nothing says either has to be right.

Their rarely wrong; but neither are they right.

Ignorant, Ignoramus, Dick or an I.I.D., ever meet one?

I once used LinkedIn, then I decided to use LinkedOut instead, more productive and better fit my life style.

It’s just sad when a life’s work is reduced to a sound byte that no one has heard.

Does fecal really matter?

When the sh*t hits the fan, you can’t think about it, you have to act decisively and not just react.

I can’t believe in something that no one is willing to explain.

When I punch out at work, it says I’ve “checked out”, well duh!  Never really “checked in” as it was.

There’s a pea for every pod, mostly.

You want to put a lien on something that has no possible return for you.  Why?  Think about it.

I don’t expect to ever be as skinny as I once was, but I do carry a lot of excess baggage these days.

You can’t hold me to your standard of stupidity if I’m already being held to a different standard in another jurisdiction.

I’ve forgotten more than I’ve ever known.

I’m not in the habit of making ass(u)mptions, I either know it or I don’t.

I first realized that my hair was thinning after a visit to Sesame Place with my children.  A day or two after our visit I thought I had dandruff, nope, the top of my head was sunburned and it was peeling.  Now if I’m outside for any length of time in the summer, it’s time for a hat.

Back when my sister in law was pregnant with her twins I told her that if they were identical, she should only have one circumcised.  That way when they were older they couldn’t try and fool her by switching places.  All she would have to do is tell them to drop them and mystery solved.

I’m more annoyed than mad.

No, you’re not in their league, for in their mind they’re in a league of their own.

Ever wonder what it would be like to create a place people not only want to go to, but look forward to it.  Kinda cool if you think about it.

Post #1225

I was hungry for food, but I came here to eat what you’re serving anyway.

I know nothing, so I should be here doing this.

If I can’t bring any value to the table, then why bother to come?

Our dog decided to get me a gun that shoots out tennis balls for father’s day.  Chasing stuff is her life; she chased a squirrel under the fence the other day to our amazement.  What she failed to take into consideration was that she would be scared sh*tless of it and cower under the table at the sight of it.

I write this blog with an audience of one in mind, me.  Also to reach the 220,000 I arbitrarily set for no real reason other than a book I read had reached that word count.  Maybe it’ll get me to my Cabin In The Woods sooner.

Came across someone who was the same height as me but at 144 pounds.  I passed 144 on my way to 150, 175, 200 etc.  When I was 30 I was 120, what happened?

It was a big thing once that has long since been forgotten.

At my job they use a lot of abbreviations.  The other day I saw bab and did not know what it meant.  So I asked a fellow coworker who had been there a while and they didn’t know either.  So after a little more research it turned out they had just misspelled bag.  That’s 10 minutes of my life I’m never getting back.

Why would you want to live what you aren’t, rather live what you are.

I’ve learned a thing or two about life that you haven’t figured out yet.  So wise up!

I know you’re weird since your actions even make me look normal.

Just because you don’t know it off the top of your head, doesn’t make your opinion so.  Do a little research.

Anyone that does any serious camping has heard of heating up rocks and placing them at the bottom of your sleeping bag to help keep you warm while cold weather tenting.  One aspect a person I use to know apparently didn’t hear about was that of wrapping the rocks up and wearing socks, since he did neither.  While they did warm his feet up, it also burned them.  Research would be the key here, since none was performed.  I guess if we were at my Cabin In The Woods, they wouldn’t have needed the extra heat.

I asked a staff member of a doctor’s office what part of the body they collected a swab from.  Their answer, the body, well duh, that much I already knew.  Pleaze be a little more specific if you’re able, they weren’t.

They’ll never forget, but soon they won’t even remember.

I overheard a coworker insisting to a customer that they never make mistakes and if one was made, it was clearly the other person.  Since then I have heard them on other occasions professing how mistake free their work is.  That’s my ultimate desire in life to be so right that I’m never wrong.

I command nothing and run everything.

Had a newer employee approach me at work, thinking I might be a big wig.  The only thing big about me is my stomach and I don’t wear wigs.  I’m just another peon like them and they don’t need to kiss my butt.  I guess their working on their brown nose appeal.

Why are you an intellectual idiot?

They’re a force of nature in their actions.  I’m a force of slumber in mine.

You’ll sit in the back corner of the café with your back turned to the world, hoping not to be noticed, but desperately wanting to be.