incompetence…its the way of the world

“store credit or cash?”

“give me cash, if you give me store credit ill forget to use it”

…….

in how many different ways is this messed up? is shopping really this difficult? will your senses be so overwhelmed that your brain might get messy and you might forget?  a word comes to mind. incompetence…… im sure these people are good at other things. maybe they are amazing at corporate project expense forecasting. but the part i get to see, they all just run around incompetent . they don't know how to deal with the public anymore, it really surprises me that they are capable of operating a motor vehicle.

“do you have your receipt?”

“yeah, but i don't have it with me”

…..

did you think i was asking purely because i was testing you? like i just want to know if it still is in existence? your paperwork does me no good if its not on your person, therefore just say NO! another amazing thing that people do is constantly purchase things they don't need at all.  like plastic sandwich bags. i get this all the time.

“was there a problem with your bags?”

“no i got home and already had 3 boxes in the pantry, i just don't need this many”

……

OMG so what possessed your simple mind to fucking buy more of them? we have become a black hole of purchasing. we do it with out even knowing it. these people will wander my store looking for these silly little things that make there already pampered easy lives easier. just the other day i had a bottle of ranch dressing returned because the OUTSIDE packaging had something like a few drops of something on it. i would guess a leaky bbq sause bottle had dripped on it. SHE RETURNED IT AFTER PICKING IT UP OFF THE SHELF, WALKING AROUND WITH IT IN HER CART, WENT THROUGH THE CHECK OUT, LOADED IT IN HER CAR. this was the point she looked at what she grabbed and decided it was far to filthy to be taken home……really? really?

 

Gandalf, GPS and a scary dog…..

so i had a crazy dream last night. i was out on an adventure, not really sure what was going on. it was in Folsom kind of in the part of town where i live. for some crazy reason i had to walk home for some undisclosed  location. I'm walking down a very long straight street that from my point of view slightly goes up hill. guess who is riding down the street towards me with lightning speed? Gandalf the Grey!!! 

so he rides by with crazy speed. i remember yelling hello as he passed. now its sunny and warm out and i continue my trek home…jogging a little which is strange  because i don't jog.  next thing i know I'm still on my walk home but now its dark and my clothes have changed to accommodate the drop in temp. now in pants my hoodie with the thumb holes and my favorite green beenie.  no longer am i in the nice normal town kinda atmosphere. its dark and cold and it looks like I'm lost in a old rundown part of the town i have never seen before. dark and creepy kinda like the town in the texas chainsaw massacre .  so my trusty G1 comes to the rescue!! i bust out the GPS Google map and I'm south west of sutter street. after climbing a good size cliff like rock out cropping i stumble upon a rundown ass scary house, which i am in the yard of do to the rock climbing. being that this is the middle of the night the last thing i want is to be gunned down or taken captive by some crazy red neck locales so i continue through there land quietly. as i move in the direction of the street i can see that the whole yard is fenced of with those crappy temp chain link fences, as i glance to my left i see a large sleeping black dog! as i see him he sees me and jumps from his slumber and comes at me!

luckily the dog is kinda play attacking me and its not really out for blood but I'm still a little weary of it (i mean who wants rabies)  as i approach the fence it begins to slide open like grocery store automatic doors! i jump through with the quickness but the dog also has ninja like reflexes and follows me out. now we are both outside of this dogs creepy ward and i tell him “get back in there! go home” surprisingly he obeys and squirms his way back through a small opening in the fence. we share a moment where i pet him under his chin through the fence and say goodbye and thank him for not eating me. as i begin to check my phone again to make sure im still on the correct course to make it home safe and sound i awake from the dream……..

THE END

clocks….

“ is that like for reals time”

my roommates girlfriend said this to her boyfriend while discussing a late night trip to Wal-Mart for camping supplies. 

So i have this thing about clocks. i feel that you should never be able to make them the wrong time. you know how some people make the clocks in the house like 5 to 20 minutes fast. this seems like utter madness to me.  i mean come on…YOU KNOW ITS FAST….you set it. its always the worst when you are at some ones place and you don't know the clock is wrong. you get all confused a little.  are we really trying to trick ourselves? do we have so little control of ourselves that we have to trick ourselves into getting ready faster in the morning? we must be pretty unhappy with our lives.

anyway what this brings me to is the idea that clocks should never be wrong. users should not be able to change them. they need to run off of location and get “internet time”. oh shit what about the old school gear clocks…..

mmmm that's quite a problem. im sure back in the day there was a pretty big difference between everyones clocks. the internet has become our town clock tower that keeps everyone on time…..

 

time on wikipedia

“Among prominent philosophers, there are two distinct viewpoints on time. One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, adimension in which events occur in sequence. Time travel, in this view, becomes a possibility as other "times" persist like frames of a film strip, spread out across the time line. Sir Isaac Newton subscribed to this realist view, and hence it is sometimes referred to as Newtonian time.^[4][5] The opposing view is that time does not refer to any kind of "container" that events and objects "move through", nor to any entity that "flows", but that it is instead part of a fundamental intellectual structure (together with space and number) within which humans sequence and compare events. This second view, in the tradition of Gottfried Leibniz^[6] and Immanuel Kant,^[7][8] holds that time is neither an event nor a thing, and thus is not itself measurable nor can it be travelled.”

i really like this second idea of time much more.