Today’s great already: The boss
Posted by: Liz | From: October 23, 2003
Today’s great already: The boss won a free lunch from a fancy restaurant and we all get to partake in the winnings today. The co-worker got a big Harry and David’s basket of fancy fruit and dark chocolate moose mix that is now enticing me from the common table. And to top off my great free day, the Shins are playing a free show in Union Square tonight. I guess I should get a lottery ticket and work this good luck thing for all its worth. Also, Tug’s in town.I was in Duane Reade today and had yet another lovely run-in with the overly competent and ever-helpful staff. I already felt bad for the guy in front of me who had a slight European accent and kept repeating his last name over and over for the lady behind the counter, who was shlumping apathetically back and forth between shelves of prescriptions. The guy had obviously been at it for a while: “Mary. Ma-ry. It’s just Mary.” “That’s the name? Maro? I don’t see it?” The lady finally asked him to write it down because “I can’t understand what you’re saying.” And then, seeing that it was Mary, asked him if that was his first name or was he picking it up for a woman. The issue far from resolved, she waved me forward while someone else attempted the Mary quandary. I was picking up a prescription and brought up a tube of toothpaste to be rung up as well. The girl behind the counter pointed at the toothpaste and said, “Could you ring that up up front, because I have to go to the bathroom.” I figured there was no way I heard her correctly, but she reiterated that she had to go to the bathroom. I was very polite and told her I was in a hurry because I was on work time and it would be a big help if she could just add the toothpaste to the order she was already ringing up. Which she did. If she had simply used some professional lie about her register being down or even that it was time for her break, I might be a bit more understanding. But Duane Reade Lady, I do not need to know when you have to use the bathroom.
Query letter excerpt of the day:
This book is completely original. There is nothing on the market that is at all like it. To briefly explain, the book is photographs of natural objects such as trees or clouds. To accompany each photograph is a funny drawing of what that natural object looks like to me. For example, I took a picture of a tree with funny patterns on it, when I did the drawing to go with it, I made it look like bugs crawling up a leg.
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