Thank God It's ... Monday!?! I know that sounds a little strange, however, Monday is in essence my Friday as when I clock out at 10 PM tonight I am off until 4 AM on Wednesday. I am really ready for some R and R after a weekend full of 'interesting' events. 'Interesting' as in the old Chinese curse, "May you live in 'interesting' times". To start with, Saturday evening, we were crazy busy at the store. More so than a typical Saturday, we were so busy that by the time I clocked out shortly after 9 PM, I was one tired puppy! I was also almost breathless from running my ass ragged all evening long. Sunday, however, turned out to be another animal all together!
On Sundays, I only work a short 3 hour shift from 5 PM - 8 PM. Typical Sunday evenings are rather slow and sedate where I do some clean up, wait on a few customers and allow my normal working companion to get his merchandise orders done while we have fascinating conversations covering a wide range of diverse topics. Last night was NOT your typical Sunday night. In the first place, we were rather busy with everyone and his brother coming in to get last minute snacks and beer in preparation for watching the Cowboy's season opener against the NY Giants on Sunday night football. Then there was the 'interesting' set of characters that seemed to crawl out of the wood work to pay us a visit. There were the people who brought their 'children' in the form of dogs to the store with them. Who brings a dog to a food store to shop with them anyway? Then there were the family groups that insisted on allowing small children who could barely reach the spigots to operate the Slurpee machine, which is a recipe for sloppiness if not disaster! And then there were the really strange ones that really made you kind of scratch your head and wonder from which planet they sprouted. One such young man approached the counter, placing a mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cup on the counter (retail 22 cents with the tax) and asking "Can I have 50 cents cash back on my debit card with this purchase?" My short answer was "No" to which he replied "Why not?" I informed him that the minimum fee for running the Visa card was more than his entire transaction, much less the amount of the gross profit on this transaction being not more than 10 cents. He then asked if he could "do a dollar instead?" I reluctantly agreed, as this store, unlike a lot of franchises and similar to most corporate 7-Eleven's, does not have a minimum amount required to use a debit or credit card. My immediate thought was 'Why would you ask me such a stupid question in the first place?'. I got a lot of mileage out of the retelling of that little incidence as well as about the one that occurred a little later in the shift.
This rather unpleasant looking female (mid to late 20's) comes strutting into the store on the arm of a slightly older (35 to 40) 'gentleman' wearing a denim skirt that barely covered her butt, sandals and a T shirt that had been cut open on the front, sides and back, tied together and leaving large swaths of naked skin exposed. Oh yeah, she also had on what appeared to be a white lace training bra as her breasts were all but non-existent. It was an outfit that literally screamed "Hey, look at me! I'm an ugly ho with no tits and this is the motherfucker stupid enough to pay me to sleep with him!" NOT your average customer on this side of town, more like an escapee from the hood of my former store. I remarked during the course of the shift that there must have been a 'full moon out all afternoon' in order to explain the number of seeming strange things that kept happening. By the time 8 o'clock rolled around, I was more than ready to dash out of there to come home and watch the Cowboy game, which turned out to be the highlight of the evening.
The game on Sunday Night Football was an exciting, hard fought nail biter between two divisional rivals very familiar with each other. The Cowboys benefited from the generosity of the Giants who were un-Giant like in that they kept turning the ball back over on mistakes, losing the time of possession battle 37:10 to 22:50. These mistakes included two fumbles early on by Giant running back David Wilson which relegated him to a place on the bench for the rest of the game, and a muffed punt return attempt when the ball struck a Giant blocker and bounced into the hands of a waiting Cowboy. The latter resulted in a Tony Romo to Jason Witten TD moments later to put the Cowboys up by 17 points. There was also the little matter of 3 Eli Manning interceptions, the final one placing the last nail in the coffin of a Giants defeat when Cowboy Cornerback Brandon Carr returned it 49 yards for the game winning TD with less than two minutes to play. To the Giants credit, they never quit fighting, drawing to within 5 points at 36-31 (the final score) before the clock ran out on them. The victory was the first by the Cowboys over the Giants since they moved into the $1.2 billion monument Jerry Jones built to himself, the recently renamed ATT Stadium in Arlington from their old digs at Texas Stadium in Irving. The Giants made a little history as no Giants team has had 6 turnovers in a game since 1987 and the Cowboys had not forced that many since the 2003 season. All in all a very happy ending to a weekend full of 'interesting' events!
Your Monday Musical Moment features the music of Georg Philipp Telemann from the Musique de table (Tafelmusik) 4 CD box set from Concentus musicus Wien conducted by founder Nikolaus Harnoncourt. The video features the Trio in E Flat Major and the Overture and Suite in D Major from the second disc in the 4 disc set. Then to wrap things up (or unwrap as the case may be) is this week's collection of lithesome lads and hunky hard bodies lounging about the page in (mostly) their best Monday's Undies for your visual appreciation. Thanks for sharing part of your Monday with me, see you again tomorrow. Until next time as always, Enjoy!
On Sundays, I only work a short 3 hour shift from 5 PM - 8 PM. Typical Sunday evenings are rather slow and sedate where I do some clean up, wait on a few customers and allow my normal working companion to get his merchandise orders done while we have fascinating conversations covering a wide range of diverse topics. Last night was NOT your typical Sunday night. In the first place, we were rather busy with everyone and his brother coming in to get last minute snacks and beer in preparation for watching the Cowboy's season opener against the NY Giants on Sunday night football. Then there was the 'interesting' set of characters that seemed to crawl out of the wood work to pay us a visit. There were the people who brought their 'children' in the form of dogs to the store with them. Who brings a dog to a food store to shop with them anyway? Then there were the family groups that insisted on allowing small children who could barely reach the spigots to operate the Slurpee machine, which is a recipe for sloppiness if not disaster! And then there were the really strange ones that really made you kind of scratch your head and wonder from which planet they sprouted. One such young man approached the counter, placing a mini Reese's Peanut Butter Cup on the counter (retail 22 cents with the tax) and asking "Can I have 50 cents cash back on my debit card with this purchase?" My short answer was "No" to which he replied "Why not?" I informed him that the minimum fee for running the Visa card was more than his entire transaction, much less the amount of the gross profit on this transaction being not more than 10 cents. He then asked if he could "do a dollar instead?" I reluctantly agreed, as this store, unlike a lot of franchises and similar to most corporate 7-Eleven's, does not have a minimum amount required to use a debit or credit card. My immediate thought was 'Why would you ask me such a stupid question in the first place?'. I got a lot of mileage out of the retelling of that little incidence as well as about the one that occurred a little later in the shift.
This rather unpleasant looking female (mid to late 20's) comes strutting into the store on the arm of a slightly older (35 to 40) 'gentleman' wearing a denim skirt that barely covered her butt, sandals and a T shirt that had been cut open on the front, sides and back, tied together and leaving large swaths of naked skin exposed. Oh yeah, she also had on what appeared to be a white lace training bra as her breasts were all but non-existent. It was an outfit that literally screamed "Hey, look at me! I'm an ugly ho with no tits and this is the motherfucker stupid enough to pay me to sleep with him!" NOT your average customer on this side of town, more like an escapee from the hood of my former store. I remarked during the course of the shift that there must have been a 'full moon out all afternoon' in order to explain the number of seeming strange things that kept happening. By the time 8 o'clock rolled around, I was more than ready to dash out of there to come home and watch the Cowboy game, which turned out to be the highlight of the evening.
The game on Sunday Night Football was an exciting, hard fought nail biter between two divisional rivals very familiar with each other. The Cowboys benefited from the generosity of the Giants who were un-Giant like in that they kept turning the ball back over on mistakes, losing the time of possession battle 37:10 to 22:50. These mistakes included two fumbles early on by Giant running back David Wilson which relegated him to a place on the bench for the rest of the game, and a muffed punt return attempt when the ball struck a Giant blocker and bounced into the hands of a waiting Cowboy. The latter resulted in a Tony Romo to Jason Witten TD moments later to put the Cowboys up by 17 points. There was also the little matter of 3 Eli Manning interceptions, the final one placing the last nail in the coffin of a Giants defeat when Cowboy Cornerback Brandon Carr returned it 49 yards for the game winning TD with less than two minutes to play. To the Giants credit, they never quit fighting, drawing to within 5 points at 36-31 (the final score) before the clock ran out on them. The victory was the first by the Cowboys over the Giants since they moved into the $1.2 billion monument Jerry Jones built to himself, the recently renamed ATT Stadium in Arlington from their old digs at Texas Stadium in Irving. The Giants made a little history as no Giants team has had 6 turnovers in a game since 1987 and the Cowboys had not forced that many since the 2003 season. All in all a very happy ending to a weekend full of 'interesting' events!
Your Monday Musical Moment features the music of Georg Philipp Telemann from the Musique de table (Tafelmusik) 4 CD box set from Concentus musicus Wien conducted by founder Nikolaus Harnoncourt. The video features the Trio in E Flat Major and the Overture and Suite in D Major from the second disc in the 4 disc set. Then to wrap things up (or unwrap as the case may be) is this week's collection of lithesome lads and hunky hard bodies lounging about the page in (mostly) their best Monday's Undies for your visual appreciation. Thanks for sharing part of your Monday with me, see you again tomorrow. Until next time as always, Enjoy!
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