Sunday suckies

[Geek King]

Plus, we got those durned Trapper Keepers with the psychedelic cardboard inserts! No one else could possibly know what subject we were working on. No one!

I didn't have a Trapper Keeper. We were po' folks when I was a kid (although I didn't know that at the time. ) I had a pencil box and plain, loose folders. This Geek came from humble beginnings. Probably why I was labled a nerd in school too. Couldn't have been the 2-3 books I read a day while waitting on the rest of the class to finish assignments. Nah.

[otakuneko]

Plus, we got those durned Trapper Keepers with the psychedelic cardboard inserts! No one else could possibly know what subject we were working on. No one!

Oooh, I remember those.
Don't think I ever had one though. I did have this one cool folder with like a cartoonish lamborghini on the front, and inside, a tachometer and a speedometer decorating the pockets.

I made it through school with only one teacher doing the color-specifying thing, and she made clear that it was for her benefit, nothing against us or anything. Mine was one of those in-between colors, could've been purple, could've been blue. I've forgotten which one it was supposed to be. I just stuck an Obi-Wan Kenobi quote on it, and reminded the teacher that yes, it really was <purple/blue>.

I see Sundays as sucky because all the decent people are in church and I'm stuck dealing with the idiots.

I know you didn't mean it that way, but not everyone who goes to church is decent, and not everyone who doesn't is an idiot.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I never had a Trapper Keeper. My parents were afraid it would turn me into some kind of big, anthropomorphic monster gobbling up everything in its path.

[SuperB]

Where I work, the real winners (ie, jerks) don't show up until after noon on Sundays...in church clothes. I have to go with Irving's interpretation, at least in my own experience.

At one job, I actually considered lowering my performance level because I was the quickest and most competent and they only wanted me during the Sunday morning checkouts. It left an impression on me that has never left.
Friday nights too. I hate date night. Give me the respectful married couples over the kids out on a date anytime.

[AdminAssistant]

You know, Mom took my folders and wrote the subject on the front in nice big letters. Organization problem - SOLVED. (I had Garfield folders! )

[Pinkie]

Wow, really dipshit? Break a hip you crotchety old fart.

Probably crotchety from lack of coffee


Sorry....had to say it!

[XCashier]

Helped a co-worker load up and carry out a futon bunk bed frame and two mattresses for a customer.

Customer: (to my coworker, who happens to be about 5 feet tall, if that, and 100 pounds or so). Did you lift that all by yourself?
Co-worker: Ummm...no....?
Customer: Are you having a bad day, or do you just suck at customer service?

Excuse me?! Can you lift that all by yourself, Almighty Customer? No? Are you having a bad day, or do you just suck at being a human being?!

That was so uncalled for.

[Shards]

The whole micro-management of little kids thing annoys the hell out of me, because they claim it helps the kids through school via increased organization, but when I was in middle and high school, the more I organized myself, the more my neat little folders fell apart and screwed me over. My friends were the same way. Some people perform better without organization, forced or no. School, at least up until 12th grade, is supposed to be a help for all children, however, it seems to be focusing on working a specific way for a specific group of five kids who do well when organized, can't organize themselves, and have parents who won't do their damn job of parenting, and because they're trying so hard to help those ten kids (I swear, there weren't more than 10 kids in my graduating class of 700 who could have profited from this) they're leaving everyone else who either is capable of organizing themselves or is of a different learning form from the one which has been accepted as 'correct' alone in the shithole.

Sorry, didn't mean to start ranting. Formalized academia pisses me off to no end. I'm so glad I've only got another two years or so until I stuff my BS of Criminal Law away and trade in my binders and textbooks for dogtags and BDUs.