Cellphone: *Ring*
Me: Huh. That almost never happens.
TempAgencyThat'sNotTheOneI'mCurrentlyWorkingThrough!Guy: Joseph?
Me: Yes.
TATNTOICWT!G: This is TATNTOICWT!G with TATNTOICWT.
Me: Oh. Hello.
TATNTOICWT!G: Are you currently looking for work?
Me: Oddly, yes I am.
TATNTOICWT!G: Blah blah blah, come in for interview?
Me: Absolutely!
TATNTOICWT!G: Blah blah blah Tuesday at 9?
Me: Sure!
TATNTOICWT!G: Blah blah blah are you familiar with TATNTOICWT?
Me: Yes. I tested there about four months ago.
TATNTOICWT!G: ...
Me: ...
TATNTOICWT!G: Oh, yes, I see that here. Well, if we get anything in that fits your skillset, we'll be in contact.
Me: ...wait. So...Tuesday at 9?
TATNTOICWT!G: Oh, that's really not necessary now. We'll be in touch. Bye.
Me: ...THE FUCK WAS THAT?!
Well, maybe they were just going to give you tests and stuff.
Or they thought you were somebody else. Man, you get all the jerks,... Joseph.
I've just never heard anyone call you Joseph in 20 years.
Oh. Oh, my aching back and knees...
I say you show up Tuesday at 9 just to punch them all in the balls. TATNTOICWT=made of assholes.
I've just never heard anyone call you Joseph in 20 years.
Huh. I guess you wouldn't.
Oh. Oh, my aching back and knees...
Oh, you whippersnappers don't know about pain. I've got all sorts of old-people ailments. Bursitis. Gout. Twallops. Kneegum. Nodulism.
Your generation and your "Restless Leg Syndrome" and "Sleep apnea". Back in my day we had Corrugated Mange and we were happy to have it!
That would have been about three years before my day, right?
Also, it's a good thing my male students are more mature than my inner 12-year-old boy.
Me: "Tomorrow, you guys get wood." (Did I just say that?)
Them: No reaction whatsoever.
Me: Relieved to have dodged another innuendo bullet!
Damn, Raq. That's just effin' wrong.
So, Joe wants to buy me some jewelry for Valentine's Day. I've been thinking that I want some sort of mother-child necklace, but I'm not sure what I want. Not anything too sweet/cutesy, but something that represents Ellie and Frisco in some way. Amy suggestions?
Garnet and pearl combo in style of your choice?
Me: "Tomorrow, you guys get wood." (Did I just say that?)
Them: No reaction whatsoever.
They're not more mature.
They're pod people.
Signed,
37 year old man giggling at "Tomorrow, you guys get wood."