Two Modern Monkeys

Aug 05

Take your shot, no matter how bad your aim may be.

Determined yet hopeful.

May 18

“It all changes”

Yep. Changes for the better.

Apr 15

The Difference

Old Store: “Here is your 10 year pin.”

New Store: Surrounded by all department and store management “Congratulations Matt! You have worked 11 years with the company! We are thankful for all the hard work you have put into the store since you joined our team!” (handshakes all around)

How did I last two years at the old store?

Apr 03

And who is the idiot?

From this article on CNN.

“I want to be a part of history,” Sheen fan Jeff Rezek told CNN as he stood in front of the theater trying to hock the second ticket neither his wife nor his son would take. “I missed Woodstock and I wanted to be here.

“I’m going to see Charlie because I feel for the next 20 years I could say, ‘I was there.’ And I’m willing to see what he has to say,” Rezek said.

Rezek suggested the Sheen tour was a good career move for an actor currently without a regular gig. Last month Warner Bros. fired Sheen from Rezek’s favorite show, “Two and a Half Men,” at the end of a long-running and highly public rant by Sheen against the producers of the television sitcom.

Rezek said he thinks Sheen decided to go on tour after the actor “finally woke up that he has to prove to the world that he’s not an idiot, he’s not a dope addict.”

Comparing Sheen’s “tour” with a defining cultural moment like Woodstock makes you look like an idiot.
20 years from now when Sheen has been six feet under for most of that time, is saying “I was there” something to be proud of?
Is it a good career move to be fired from a multi-million dollar show and try to stay relevant by staging a train wreck of a show for your “adoring fans”?

Mar 02

Things I won’t miss

Asshole taxi drivers

Junkies

Bottle return scumbags

Racism

Disrespect for personal and private property

The bus stop

The guy from the psych center

The “I’m depressed that my brother died two years ago and cant work even though I arrived at the store 3 hours before my shift and showed no signs of depression” excuse

Farm lot 32

Vast amounts of trash

Micro management

“I have a bad home life so I won’t move quickly when doing my job”

“do you have any gloves? I forgot mine at home.”

Checking the employee lockers for missing gloves, jackets and sweatshirts

People not putting their bikes in the bike rack and parking them in the vestibule because “this bike costs $1000 but I don’t have a bike chain for my expensive bike”

Buffalo State students

Weed wacking behind the stockade fence

BET on the breakroom television

Leadfoot

Cart theft

“this mart cart is dead”

The security guard telling me all his sexual exploits

Broken down/second hand shopping carts

Theft