Because I am the low man on the totem pole at work, i get some of the crappy jobs. One of which happens to be sweeping in front of the store. I did so this morning. It's not so much that i don't like sweeping, it's just the annoyance of having to interrupt my multi-million dollar sales to go sweep. Ok, ok multi-hundred dollar sales, but still.
But, the fact that i'm still "the new guy" at work after almost 4 years is not what this blog is about...nor is it about sweeping. It's not about my work at all. I know, you're saying "well chuck, if it's not about your job, then why have you wasted my time so far with all this talk about it."
Well i will respond with this. " Perhaps maybe if you could keep your chubby fingers off the keyboard, and stop interrupting me for 5 seconds maybe you'd learn something. Or maybe if you didn't read so dang slow you'd already be past this part, and on to something more meaningful. And if you want to blame your slow literacy development on someone, you can blame your public school teachers...because they are probably liberal, thus making it their fault And might i also comment on the fact that you didn't even use correct grammar in your interruption. at least put a question mark at the end of your question. jeez.
Moving on to the reason i'm writing, SMOKERS. Now i don't have a problem with most people who smoke, but there are those few who ruin it for the rest... have you ever seen that guy...you know the one i'm talking about. He's anywhere from 35-60, and you can tell by the way he's sucking on that death stick that he's still riding the fact that smoking was cool in highschool. This guy actually believes that people are watching him smoke and thinking (man that guy is tough). He's the type of guy who, if you went up and talked to him while he's smoking...he'll leave the cigarette in the corner of his lips while he talks. It will just hang there, almost falling out, but it never does. And he knows you notice...he doesn't say anything, but he knows.
The thing that annoys me most about this type of smoker is they don't care where their cigarette butt lands, as long as they do the "cool" flick thing when they discard it. You know the flick...hold your hand out palm up. now touch your middle finger nail to your thumb, then flick. You've seen it before. You know the flick. But if these smokers really want to put out the vibes, they turn their palm down and execute the same maneuver...but this time with just the slightest wrist movement along with the flick. But to really put them over the top...look the other way while you flick as if you don't even notice that your doing it.
Now at our store, we have a cigarette but dispenser sitting right by the door so as to eliminate all the gross looking cigarette butts right outside the door. I get annoyed because while i'm sweeping the front of the store, i continually notice 5-7 cigarette butts withing 4 feet of the dispenser. Now i'm not quite sure on the problem here...is a cigarette dispenser not cool enough? are there that many people executing the " no look flick"? Are these smokers too winded from getting out of their vehicle to walk the 4 feet? I'm really not sure.
This is chuck saying if you must smoke, make it a big fat stogie.
-chuck out
