my crappy day

dragonlady's den So I took a different route to work today because I had an errand to run before work, and the freakin' traffic was unforgivable...and then, while I was driving in the center lane (of 3 lanes) my van just...died. Stopped. Quit. Wouldn't go. In heavy, heavy traffic. FUCK!!!!!! Called a tow truck, got to work and opened the store 30 minutes late.

Then my daughter called to tell me that she had to pick up my 13 year old grandson from school because he was having anxiety attacks. The real thing, too...racing heart, sweating, shortness of breath; part and parcel of is bipolar disorder, which we thought he had under control.

So much for Monday. Hey, at least I know it can only get better!

September 11

The Bitch Factor I work in a business that caters to wedding and wedding party customers, and I am really shocked that we have sold quite a few gifts for weddings taking place today, September 11, 2004. It's only been 3 years, people, have you forgotten already? Why would you want your anniversary to be September 11? I suppose one could argue that it's a life-affirming thing, but I think it's disrespectful. Is it just me?

little green men

dragonlady's denSo many people have claimed to have seen UFO's and little green (or gray) men all over the world that it becomes hard to dismiss the stories of sightings and abductions. Clearly these people believe what they're telling us, so what is going on? Well, I have my own theory, based on a couple of "facts"---
First, the distances et's would have to travel from outside our solar system are so vast that even at near light speed it would take hundreds or thousands of years to get here. Of course, that's based on modern-day physics; there's a whole lot more that may be possible and we just haven't discovered it yet, but let's assume that the time needed to go from one star system to another is accurate.
The second "fact" is that these extraterrestrials that people claim to have seen and been abducted by are usually described as humanoid...two arms, two legs, two eyes, etc. Given that we evolved as the result of random combinations of chemicals, electrical activity, etc., it is highly unlikely that evolution would take a parallel path thousands of light years away, resulting in beings who so closely resemble us. So, are ya ready for my theory?
If these "grays" do actually exist; if these beings do abduct humans and perform medical tests and experiments on them, then this is what I propose: it is us. Perhaps these beings are mutations as a result of nuclear war, plague, bilogical warfare, or just our own poisoning of the planet. Perhaps these humanoids have discovered how to use time travel, and they are studying their ancient history, just as archeologists do today. Perhaps the medical experiments people claim to have undergone are efforts to save our future race.
I don't necessarily believe any of this, but it's food for thought. Hungry?

Boss Stories

dragonlady's denOn my first job ever, way back in the Dark Ages when I was 16 years old, I worked at a drive-in restaurant, selling 15 cent burgers and soft-serve ice cream. The place was owned and run by a married couple and their 20-something son. The employees were all teenaged, and we liked to goof around a lot when the bosses weren't there. So one night, when they WERE there, and I was working, a couple of my co-workers who were not working that night came by and we asked if I could leave and go with them for an hour or so. We went to the owners' house---a really nice house in a nice development---and totally toilet papered their house and yard. Then yard was fairly well-lit, and when we were done, you could clearly see our handiwork from the highway. We then went to the house of a regular customer, a really nasty, grumpy old man, took a pair of his underwear off his clothesline and stuffed them in his mailbox. (Teenaged hijinks were much more benign in those days.) They dropped me back off at work, and we never heard ONE WORD from the owners about it.

Another job I had in my late 20's-early 30's was for a family-owned electrical supply warehouse. Daddy was the chairman of the board, son #1 was president, daughter #1's husband was vice-president,, daughter #2 was showroom manager (and my immediate boss), daughter #2's hubby was a branch manager, and son #2 was a spoiled teenage boy working in the warehouse. Every family member and their spouse had a company car. When daughter #2 went to run the showroom at the beach, I ended up doing all the puchasing for all 3 showrooms while daughter #1 sat at the beach talking on the phone and playing cards with the contractors. When daddy paid for her to take a Hawaiian vacation, I went to the beach showroom and spent a week just cleaning up after her! I got to the bottom of a pile behind the counter and found bug-infested, rotting food---ugh! It had its ups as well as its downs---literally! Son #1, on more than one occasion, went into the showroom bathroom, laid out a couple lines in the tank lid, and invited me to snort away! (Gotta do what the boss says, yah?) One day he was fiddling with his boat right outside the building and he handed me the rest of a joint and invited me to finish it. That was a fun day...But he started doing waaaay too much nose candy...he'd even go get money from the bookkeeper to "take some contractors out for lunch," but he spent it all on cocaine. People's personalities change drastically for the worse when they get addicted to coke...so I ended up quitting because of his drug habit (and also his sexual harrassment of me and any other female there).
Now I've been the boss for almost 20 years where I am. My boss stories aren't funny, but I'll betcha my staff members' are!

I'm famous now...

dragonlady's denWell, I guess I have "arrived" on BAS, as now I have imposters posting as me. LOL! The posters there who really matter...the intelligent ones like DW, Mr22, OBGG, Mr64 and others, will know which posts and comments are mine. DW picked up on it right away. BAS is kind of fun, because so may of those posters deserve to be flamed...and I'm just the one to do it!

Where do I go from here?

Okay, here it is - my very first blog. Now if I can just become an interesting person and find something to write about!