I happen to be chronically ill, since i was about 17. Last time i visited my specialist, and i complained about being SO tired all the time and that it depressed me, he told me, i should view my disease and myself differently. He said: "Having Crohns disease, is like being an athlete, it's top sport for the body to deal with it, it's natural for you to be so tired,...it's the... Read More »
Daffodils
I used to work as a cashier at grocery store, and one day while I was working up near the entrance to the store, there was all this crazy noise outside. A glance out the front window revealed that the noise was in a fact several fully-automatic weapons being fired at a speeding SUV directly in front of the store. Needless to say, everyone freaked out and hit the deck, myself included. After the shooting stopped, and I had called 911, I peeked out the window, only to see the slumped over body of the now-dead driver in his SUV, about 10 feet away. As I tried to figure how exactly to deal with the situation, a woman came over and yelled, "EXCUSE ME! I NEED TO PAY FOR THESE DAFFODILS!!". Sorry lady, I guess i got distracted by the bullet-ridden corpse...
I used to be able to get back from lunch at 12:30 and know that there would be a fresh batch of uPick submissions to read, but now I have to actually do some work as it is not being updated everyday!!!!
Several years ago I worked with a overnight delivery company. It wasn't unusual to run into all sorts of dogs when you made a delivery (including nasty ones.) One day, I walked up to a lady's house where the front door was open. As soon as I rang the bell, I heard the jingle of dog tags & realized I was too far away from the vehicle to get back there in time, so I braced myself.... Read More »
I work at Wal-Mart as a Wireless Sales Associate (basically electronics), and we have this one reoccurring older African-American customer who comes in with the assumption that we are some type of IT or Geek Squad. Well anyways, he comes in about a week ago, and brings his laptop. The laptop that he has is a Compact with Windows XP (a bit outdated I must say). Anyways, he pulls... Read More »
I work private security, we have lately been having a lot of issues with access control and breaches (people not allowed to be there, being there.) so we have one officer who is in charge of training all of the officers in proper breach control. During his breach test, he failed and got a slap on the wrist. During mine, I passed but I missed a minor detail and got written up and... Read More »