Are Arlo and Janis retired? Technically, no. Although home undeniably has become the focus of the strip lately, they still have comic-strip jobs, traditional jobs where they go to a brick-and-mortar office, put in a day of routine work and collect a regular paycheck. In other words, jobs that hardly exist anymore outside comic strips. Perhaps I’ll explore this area in 2016. I’ve thought a lot about it. Heaven knows, their resume needs updating.
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220 responses to “Office Favorite”
Debbe 😉 The “Debbie” on TIP today…I dunno…sorta reddish-blonde hair…obviously would look great in an orange string bikini…could be, could be. 🙂
Yes, bank loan officers (the male ones, anyway) still wear ties and sit at a desk. I saw one doing so two days ago, while I was in a bank lobby waiting for a locksmith to arrive to drill the lock on a safe deposit box. (Not mine; don’t ask.) Turned out I knew the locksmith, and he let me watch him work. Now I know all about safe deposit boxes and their locks. Including how to open a box in about 15 seconds, without a key. But I’m not telling.
What is this about don’t get your blood pressure elevated or heart rate elevsted? Nobody told me. Do they think all of us are on walkers and having home health daily to ask us if we had a bowl movement? Yes, that’s what they think or want I suspect.
Just get in line, we’ll keep you breathing to advanced age, just don’t ask for a life to go with living.
Sorry I am a tad testy. And tired. And a customer at Hobby Lobby just carried on like a screaming hysterical drama Queen at this sweet framing tech who was helping me on my nickle. I began to politely say a copy of whatever newspaper article was easily replaced but I got as far as “Excuse me sir” when he began screaming at me.
Why do idiotic ally insignificant people do that? Attack others? I shrugged my shoulders and went and peed. Wished it had been on his foot. The poor framer was worried about me, that zip was hurt, I was worried about her. I was spending about a thousand on frames, he had spent about $40 and interrupted so he could yell at everyone. It was apparently the first time his name had been in a newspaper and they had cut off mast head.
If that is his usual style, the next time he appears in a newspaper may well be in the crime section due to some less patient person punching his lights out.
I was in a Burger King a couple of weeks ago and saw a woman blow up like that over an order that apparently was wrong. Her husband came in first and he was quiet and polite over it, accepted the manager’s explanation why they could not replace it, and took it back to his car. Then came the wife, under a full head of steam. In between the screaming, cursing and general acting out, everyone in earshot learned that the woman’s mother had come to this location and bought food for this woman and her family, spending around $30. The purchaser took the food to this woman and must not have checked the order because bigmouth ran down a long list of things that were wrong with it. Trouble is, they did not come back with the food till it was around an hour after the sale. Manager said if they had called right away or come back directly the order was found to be wrong, it would have been replaced. This woman would not accept that and continued screaming and cursing, and trying to interrupt me when the manager was bagging my order. The unhappy customer ended by throwing the bags on the counter and storming out. I pity her husband for the ride home.
Most jurisdictions make “Creating a Business Disturbance” a crime. Of course, that probably gets invoked about as often as the one against “Pubic Profanity”.
Only idiots and very small people have to raise their voices to make a point. I never raise mine.
Debbe 😉 Yes, hon, she was my only sister, my only sibling, my “baby sister”. I miss her a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCUXSdg6PCc
Ghost you told me you had a very harmonious relationship with your phone who has just printed public profanity for you above. Mine on the other hand is fond of printing public area for me.
See! Hal will NOT type what I type! Insolent know it all he typed public when I typed pubic. You typed public profanity and your phone typed pubic instead. Mine keeps saying I have public areas which may or may not be true but it was not what I typed.
We are being politically corrected.
Southern women all know that honey and sugar attract more than flys. Most businesses I frequent remember me, will do anything in world I would ask and it has nothing to do with how much money I spend. There is a reason our mama’s all tell us all our lives “Be sweet.”
They tell their sons that too. Some listen.
Actually, I meant “Public”. A typo; that’s what it was. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Freud who?
Jackie, you need to show your phone who is the Boss.
Some people insist Hal has a sense of humor.
Came home and threw most of cats out in breezeway. Noticed Voodoo my Catahoula Curr is in sunroom laundry. She peeked over half glass door. Those blue marble eyes scare people to death. Her first name was Angel. Now she’s Voodoo Queen.
Turned on tablet to Well Tempered Clavier. Needed that. Came home to find living room full of the new cat furniture cat boxes which are a uite lovely in fact and wood furniture, one off white, one black and one cherry. That way no matter which way my decor swings it can work somehow.
Hal typed way hick up there, he’s showing me what he thinks.
Tschaiskosky Sleeping Beauty playing. I have been Disneyfied, I thought someone at studio wrote, guess they wrote lyrics to his music. Why does Sirius radio have no classical stations?
The one I like is when they rant and rave about a product
And you tell them they did not guy it at our store – more ranting –
we point out the competitions logo on the package.
Most of the loud mouths started in the cradle – and bullied their parents.
emb
Thoreau was a writer
enough said.
Jackie
Try 60’s on 6 for the classics
Just kidding – there is one, if I remember I will look it up tomorrow
at store.
or go to :
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http://www.classicalmpr.org/listen
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on the computer.
Sirius Channels
Opera = 74
Symphony = 76
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Jazz & Standards
68 tru 73
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https://www.siriusxm.com/sxm/pdf/sirius/channelguide.pdf
While 5 AM comes at the time it always does
The alarm is getting closer and closer.
I am going to bed. Thank you. Yes, I hit Classical and it stood for classics vinyl and I have been listening to rock from 70s to now mostly, they programmed 80s rock, country, Jimy Buffet.
God forbid, I heard a Justin Bieber song.
Some click-bait for GR:
http://www.worldlifestyle.com/trending/jaw-dropping-rare-photos-amazing-people-history-2/25#next-image
Ms Carter was truly a wonderful woman.
Good morning Villagers…
EMB 😉 peace, and GR ;). ….yes, orange bikini fared well on reddish/blonde hair.
Not much of a typer today, slow, Index finger has 11 stitches in it. Lesson learned…when repairing egg belts, never put your vise grip on blue jean belt loop when auger moving, vise grips fell into moving auger. Out of reflex/reaction, I reached dowm to grab it, finger slammed into trough hanger, knew then I was in trouble…followed grips to motor amd jerked it out while it was rolling around in front of auger motor….went straight to restroom, with right hand in air and grips in left hand….told Jonathan….think I need stitches….was told they would have rather put the auger back in than me almost losing finger. Reflex actions always get me in trouble
Yes, definite lesson learned…got a tetnus, and antiobiotic, and pain meds….amd I’m still going into work. The Boss said he would take care of everything that my insurance didn’t pay…guess what, new year, new dedictible…$500 on this plan
Oh, and The Corp put all hen houses on lockdown. Had to swab the throats of 11 hens…that was interesting. We don’t know if it’s a test run, or if there is an actual threat of the Avian virus lurking somewhere…I just pray it’s a trial run.
I figured GR she was your baby sister just from the way you spoke of her, love the Motown too.
Ya’ll have better day
=^..^=
Debbe 😉 Better to lose the bikini than a finger, I always say. 🙂 Be careful, hon.
‘Southern women all know that honey and sugar attract more than flies.’ One wasn’t, in NO, some time ago. Will not elaborate; she may still be alive. Peace,
And Sirius/XM has extra channels online only, 755 is classical pops. My favorite is Radio Classics, 148, the old time radio stuff
Jimmy, in our discussions about our new home, it HAD to have 2 bathrooms, a basements, 3 bedrooms and a garage. We also wanted the Kitchen, dining room and living room to be relatively open. But my Marianne is Janis…and I wanted to blow up a few rooms.
Regarding making a scene, my sister, wife and I stayed at a hotel that had a bad water issue inside the room. We decided to go downstairs to get an adjustment to to bill. My sister and wife went on and on to the poor girl behind the desk, who eventually said “I’ll get a manager”. They then got upset with me as I remained quiet. I just walked away and caught the manager as he made his way to us. I explained a few things about the situation and he agreed to take half off the bill. As he approached the girls, he shook his head, apologized and told them about the bill. They were more than satisfied, but my sister still wanted to know why I had remained quite. I told her “Always know who your decisionmaker is and plead your case to them. Others are just a waste of time”
You’re right emb. Not all Southern women are like Jackie describes: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2016/01/georgia_woman_stripped_assault.html#incart_river_home
To paraphrase what I’ve said before, the ones you want to see naked never take off all their clothes off at a House of Waffles; the ones you don’t want to see, do.
Excited delirium state? Her, perhaps; certainly not me.
Those women who do reality TV shows and give birth to children like Honey Boo Boo are hardly what one would call Southern ladies. Ghost’s mama and sister would be.
We call the others trash, often appended with the word white, not to discriminate but to differentiate. You can be poor without being trash, just as you can be a lady without social status. None are connected to the other nor automatically conferred.
Good morning y’all. I am getting in my bubble bath before the water gets cold and the bubbles go away.