Heinous Hiatus

Ok so it's been a while, so what? Summer marks a time of year whIn i actually get out of the house once in a while...Alright I lied, I'm just as lazy during summer as I am any other season of the year. At the library once again, using my free high speed privileges. You used to have to sign in on these things, but now they jus thave this little timer in the bottom right corner of the screen. It keeps tick tick ticking away and it's really hard not to stare at. So to take my mind off of that I shall tell you a story, one that I find rather creepy. We have a new person at work now, she's older, mid to late 30s (although if I hadn't been told roughly how old she was I'd swear she was mid 4os). Anyways, stories have been told about how she eyes up most people that come into the store, I haven't seen this first hand but I do try to avoid her while at work by staying in the cooler, mostly because whenever I tell a joke she doesn't get it and it causes a lot of unease, I don't understand, sarcasm is one of the easiest things to pick up on...Back to story. Today she was doing a tasting (giving out samples of a newish cooler we carry) and when you do these tastings you have to understand that you aren't doing much unless there's a lot of traffic coming through the store...Which there wasn't. Thus you get bored rather quickly and you generally start to look at things. And what she saw was a display, one which was rather crooked, I'd known about this for some time, tried to fix it at one point and gave it up to hopelessness. She'd tried to tell me this but of course the manner in which she attempted to do this wasn't exactly the most feasible way of doing so. She pointed to a spot infront of her, told me to stand there and then turn around...I don't know abou you, but when someone that I've just been told checks out everyone tells me to turn around in front of her there's only one thing I think she's doing. I'm not full of myself, it's just what crossed my mind first also causing me to use my "scared voice", most people who know me should know what this is, such as it was with one of my co-workers who picked up it right away and had to walk to the back and start laughing. A bit later I had to go to the back where I found this SAME co-worker still laughing our conversation proceeded something like this...

Matt- *glares*
Co-worker- "What's the matter matt? Don't want to turn around?"
Matt- "you know what you can do? You can just shut it right now, that was freaking creepy as hell, how hard is it to just say 'hey matt! Is that display crooked over there?' but no! It was 'stand there and turn around' scary!"
Co-Worker- "well what do you expect? You're the only guy working here"
Matt- "so what? I'm a piece of meat now? Thanks I appreciate it"
Co-Worker- *laughs*
Matt- "I hate you"
Co-Worker- "get back in your cooler"

of course you have to understand that I don't actually hate anyone I work with but a lot of my mannerisms are lost when I type them.

my adventures for the day didn't end there though, while walking to the mall (something I actually enjoy doing while the weather is warm) I was stopped by two young kids that asked me if I was eighteen (sidenote: it took me 6 times to write eighteen properly and 3 for that one). I responded yes, already suspecting what they wanted. And as I thought they wanted me to boot some chew for them. And while I would probably be one of the best at doing it (knowing what clerks look for when they suspect someone is booting, I'd be the last person to do it for someone I don't know because I know what the consequences are. Which reminds me, most people that boot are freaking retarded, or just stupid. A lot of them make the mistake of saying it's for a friend right off the bat (if you do that we can't sell to you), next a lot of them have the people they're booting for right outside, infront of the store, where we can see them and when they exchanged money (if you do this, we can't sell to you). Other things that tip us off are when people pay with small change or small bills, or they purchase items that are obviously not for them, (ie. Very small girl buying a lot of alcohol). Please understand, while the clerk will probably still seel to you, he or she most likely knows just what it is you're doing. No you are not sneaky, you're not the first kid booting they've dealt with. That clerk was or is young and knows all the tricks too.

I'm looking around me and see that 2 people are on nexopia right now at other computers, I'm pretty sure they don't know each other but just the same it goes to show you that online communities are growing in popularity. And while my forum has died many other's are doing quite well such as www.getin.ca it's newish and has a great deal of potential but then it's not just a forum it has many other doodads that make it interesting as well, I suggest you take a look.

but now I should end this rambling...Until next time. I need a catch phrase, I think that will be my goal for the next little while, I'm going to come up with a catch phrase for just myself.

-Matt