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From the local paper .....
Confederate flag removal was long over due
Editor: My wife and I followed with great interest the story about South Carolina permanently taking the Confederate flag from outside the State House.
You see in the early days of intergration- 1968 - we moved to the south, Chattanooga Tenn, to work.
We really were naive Candians (we thought a sign that read "whites only" in a laundromate meant white clothing only)
This was early days in the time of busing black students to white schools to force intergration.
Brainerd is a middle-class at the time exclusively white nieghbourhood of Chattanooga. The newly intergrated bused in black students at Brainder High School objected to the school fight song "Dixie"and the school's symbol, the Confederate flag.
The school board therfore voted to ban both of these. On the Friday night after the vote my wife and I deove to Brainerd to see if anything was going on. Sure enough the streeets were full of cars full of white students driving around singing "Dixie" at the top of their lunds and waving Confederate flags out of the car windows.
We also decided to go to a football game at Brainerd the following day.
Brainerd was playing a team from mlong intergrated Notre Dame Catholic High School.
At the half time the Brainerd students predictably burst into a chourus of "Dixie"
We will never forget what happpened next. All the Notre Dame students filed down onto the field stood in front of the Brainerd students and looked up at them and sang "America the Beautiful".
Now 47 years later South Carolina has finally removed the flag. We are left wondering why it took them so long.
Barry Whaites
Lately whenever I post a status "someone" round here will always think its about them. The routine is I post a status eventually somebody comes alonsg and says
"is your status about _______ ? "
I lol and say "noooooooooooo why"
they say " oh I think __________ thinks it is about them" and then they send me a link or copy and paste to a status that sure as shit makes it perfectly clear "someone" thinks my status was about them.
It has been kind of entertaining to be honest.
I post a status about double standards "someone" sees themself in it and thinks it is about them
I post a status about drama queens "someone" recognizes themseleves and is convinced it is about them
I post a status about my dying cat "someone" somehow someway made that about them
I post a status about some gawd awful NSFW that is hitting fu that night ... yup "someone" has even made giant hairy snatch statuses about them
I post a status about two faces and "someone" thinks I am talking about both of theirs.
I post a status about ......
Well you get the idea.
Now for the most part I have been highly amused and having great fun with it. I mean seriously how often does someone get to win a battle they did not even know they were fighting? I have thought (and said) meh if it helps "someone" feel like they are important let them have it besides even if I did say it was not about them they would not believe it. I considered it charity to help the individuals out there feed their drama / status war habit.
That brings us to my last two statuses ... *points* Now I must confess after I had posted them I totally started laughing and thought oh shit "someone" is going to think that is about them but really who can blame me at this point? :s It has been crystal clear that no matter what I post for whatever reason or about what/who "someone" is going to do the OMG OMG OMG SHE IS TALKING ABOUT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE dance and who I am to deprive them?
Let me tell you how those statuses came about ... it is from a Mumm
The mumm poster took my reply to her mumm and became convinced I was talking directly too and about her and took it very personal ( I knooooooowwww that never fucking happens on fu) when in fact I was not talking about anyone in particular and making the point that no I do not talk the same way in real life as I do sometimes on line.
here is the Mumm (please please note the timing of the mumm and final comment and my damn statuses for ffs :D)
http://fubar.com/curious/m1010102
to help even further here is the screen shot of the comment I am refering to.
<a href="http://fubar.com/helly/photo-3619108-2315385-3987861090" target="_blank"><img src="http://b.pcc1.fubar.com/80/19/3619108/3987861090.jpg" title="" border="0" /></a>
Well dear readers as you have guessed by now yup "someone" is absolutely fucking certain it is about them. *trortured sigh*
So if you know "someone" who is totally convinced they are the only person I know and therefore the only person I would post things about please inform that "someone" they are exposing their ass.
Or is you know someone who is damn determined to take ownership of every post that covers a negative character traits by seeing themselves in it they might not wanna advertise that.....cause you know some of the smarter people might start noticing those character traits in you.
Oh and for the record juuusttttttttttttt to be clear ... yes .. yes this post is about "someone"
So if the shoe fits you feel free to strap that bitch on !!
(y)
is
- buying a pair of pants you just love at a great price
- accidently shrinking them ...
-deciding they were such a good price you would go get a second pair
- putting them on when spring comes and thinking fuck I gained weight
- figuring out a year later you did not gain weight but they were too tight because you were wearing the pair you shrank
derp
The main reason I am doing this is for Maso .... I know me telling this story and exposing my bleeding sucker heart will stick a huge ass goofy grin on his face.
I went down to the cat rescue shelter to donate the special food and supplies I had for nursing Emo. Once there the director of the shelter conned me into meeting a few cats. I made it very very very clear to her I was no where near ready or willing to "adopt" another cat. :/
Meet Nyk not my first choice in a name for a cat but her original name was Nik Nak and that is just gawd fucking awful. I thought changing her name completely considering her age was just kind of nasty so I settled on Nyk. There she was this 5.2 lb huddles mass of misery. She had the mew of a weak new born kitten was missing half her fur in the back due to matting. I was told they thought she was 9 but the lady that "surrendered" her kept changing her story about how old she was and why she could not keep her 
Yes .... I ended up going home with her that night. I mean what could go wrong with such a tiny timid girl right? Poor Gru ! Right off the bat all he wanted to do was love her unfortunately for him (and me) she was having none of that. After doing the keep them in seperate rooms and slow introductions thing I let Nyk out of the room. It turns out Gru is whimp and Nyk is a bit of a diva. She prances around like a little queen. She chases Gru who is double her size and pretty much freaks the holy hell out of him. He is such a sweet cat the most I have seen him do in retaliation is raise his paw gently in warning and once when she was repeatedly and deliberatly prancing by him while staring him down stick out his paw put it against her ass and shove her out the room. After a time of Gru and I respecting her boundaries and time outs when she attacks Gru it is starting to look like this just might work out. (though I will not allow Gru to be bullied endlessly if I am wrong) The incidents of her for no reason going after Gru have settled down and the last couple of days just happen in the morning If I click my tongue she comes running (if I meant Gru and not her she does not care) She wants to be around me more and manages to lounge in the same area as Gru without giving him her bitching side and making him dash away like a hen pecked husband being chased by his bitch wife holding a knife. Hopefully another week or so into it things will have settled down. completly. It is has been quite the revelation for me at how much having her so vastly different from Emo (although physically a lot of similarities) has made me miss him more and I wonder if Gru has the same.
*spits out hair*
Today
I waited at the same light for 10 mins bc they were mowing the grass in ditches during the rush to work
I was told by a customer I was getting fat
I was told by her husband I had grey hair
The customer that bitched at me for only having brown and white bread last he was in and I was out of other choices bitched at me today when I told him I had 7 grain sourdough rye and cheddar cheese bread to pick from and no white
Everybody and their dog is acting like a dip below freezing after spring like temps for 2 weeks is a fucking disaster they will never recover from
My staff called in sick (ya ya ya for a good reason I am not mad at her)
I spent 50 mins on the phone trying to explain to the Hydro company (again) that they for some reason no one is willing to explain or fix they have my acct coupled with a different business with the name Holland it and the overdue bill is not mine.
Today I was told I was heartless for not allowing some woman to take her dogs in the store even it was a food service establishment because it was too cold for them to be in the car.
Today .... I might need a new spot to hide the bodies
We all need a special reminder during the Holidays of how good we have it
While running the carboard out of my store to the back bin I found myself walking beside a gentleman that was if not actually homeless at least living in hard times. He was pushing a grocery buggy full of all kinds of junk. I smiled at him and asked him how he was doing. He started talking away and frankly it was very hard to follow what he was on about. Suddenly he flashed a BIG smile and said clearly "my old lady Debra she got herself a job at the Casino !"
WOW I thought GOOD FOR HER. I smiled back and told him how wonderful that was. He agreed telling me they were happy to have a little extra for christmas this year. I should have left the conversation at that but nooooooooooooooo I had to push my luck and add that it must be a relief to her to have a job with some security. OH YES !! He declared SHE FUCKS DAY AND NIGHT !!!
It was then that I realized he did not mean the casino hired her but she had found a spot to stand in the back of the Casino.
HO HO HO MERRY CHRISTMAS
Yesterday ...
Phone rings....
Me: Holland ......... how can I help you
Him: Yes I am very upset I have a Dutch Bakery Pumpernickle here and the bottom is all fungused. I hope I did not eat any of it.
Me: I am so very sorry that happened Sir ... I will check and pull the product immediately and talk to my supllier
Him: It is very upsetting
Me: Again Sir .. .I am very very sorry all I can do at this point and is go after the issue and offer you a refund .
Him: Oh no no no that wont do it cost me more in the bridge toll to come across than what I would get back.
Me: Of course well next time you are in the store let me know and I will be sure to refund you your money.
Him: OH I dont actually shop in your store I bought this in a store over here.
Me: blank stare
Me: Sir I am not sure what exactly you want me to do about a product you did not buy from me in the first place.
Him: Well this is awful the manufacturing has to be held accountable.
Me: Sir I suggest you contact the store you bought it from.
Him: I did ...but this is awful.
Me: blank stare...
Goodbye Sir ... have a good day
This Morning....
Phone rings...
Me: Holland....... can I help you
Him: Yes I called yesterday about a product with fungus on it and I have to say I find that you were very rude and not concerned about my health and safety at all. I could have died.
Me: Blank Stare
Him: This is very serious...
Me: Sir you did not buy the product from here so I dont know what you want me to do about it. Contact who you bought it from.
Him: I have ... I would like to talk to the manufacturer.
Me: The manufacturer is in Holland.
Him: Then I would like to talk to the importer.
Me: Sir please deal with the store you bought the product from. (hangs up)
Phone rings
Me: Holland ............ can I help you
Him: Yes I would like to talk to the owner or manager they need to know you are very rude.
Me: Hangs up
slams head on desk
Have most of my christmas stock in and pictures loaded on business FB page.
If anyone wants things shipped to them again this year .... letting me know sometime this month is probably best to make sure you get it.
sometimes I just have to share my pain
Customer.... do you ah sell da a gouda cheese
Me....yes I do
Customer ....where ah da iz it
Me.....over here in the cheese cooler Maam
Customer ... ah how da mooch iz it
Me ... depends on the kind Maam
Customer.... gohkay whoot about dis a piece
Me... 29.15 Maam
Customer ... oh dat very much a price but I a have da bad gas and I a had been told da gouda cheese helps with da gas and it a smells bettter
Me.... *cries*
One thing that irritates me a lot about this whole new "bullying" craze is the fact that things that are flat out not bullying but criminal offences like assualt ... rape ... uttering threats ... and stalking using on line resources. Bullying is telling the fat kid they cant sit with you at lunch because they smell. What people speak about today as bullying is so beyond that ... To me calling acts such as this bullying trivializes it ...
