There was a little incident the other night at work that irked me tremendously. Actually, many things at work irk me. For reasons I'm working on discovering, some things that seem to bother others don't bother me so much, but other little things that most others don't even care about annoy the hell out of me. By the way, I don't know how many people know this, but for the uninformed few, I wash dishes at an Italian restaurant. Anyways, the other night one of the supervisors came up to me and told me that some guy had puked in the bathroom, and while he made it to the garbage can, not all of his puke did. I know, you're all dying to hear about this. Well, I had to actually clean it up so you can just quit your whining. She told me to go clean it up. She said there wasn't much, so it shouldn't be too much trouble. At first this didn't bother me. I went off to the bathroom, grabbed some paper towel, wet it in the sink and cleaned up the mess. It took all of about five seconds to deal with. Later on I got to thinking, it actually took longer for my supervisor to come tell me about the mess and tell me to clean it up than it would have for her to grab the nearest male server and tell him to clean it. I should give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she asked me cuz I'm a male, and she couldn't go in there, but being in the type of work I'm in, I sometimes get the feeling that anytime there's gross stuff to deal with, the dish-pigs are the ones who have to deal with it. We have to handle huge piles of garbage in the dish area, we have to take the garbage out about two times in a shift, stuff like that. I find it very demeaning sometimes. I guess it's my own fault though. By now, I should have finished school and gotten a degree in something that would get me a high-paying job.
Funny, it really is the little things that piss me off. But it's like that with a lot of people, isn't it?
Another thing that's destroying my perfect little world right now, my dvd drive won't work. The little bugger won't close, or rather it won't stay closed. I close it, and five seconds later, it pops open again. I spend so much money on technology, and I love having my computer and other little gadgets and stuff, but it craps out so easily. Just a few years ago, if I'd seen some of the things I take for granted, I would have been awestruck. Computers are getting smaller and smaller, and able to process so much more information and perform so much work and do all kinds of amazing things, but the second it doesn't do something perfectly, I yell at it and threaten to toss it in a landfill. I guess that's not such a bad thing though. We don't have to worry about the machines taking over, Terminator-style for quite some time.
But enough grousing. Here's something that may brighten your day a little.
Two nuns were about to paint a room. Because of the hot weather, and since no one would be able to see in through the window, they decided to work naked. So they stripped down, and got to work. A little while later, there was a knock at the door. Nervously, they called out, "Who is it?". "Blind man." came the answer. "Well," they decided, "there's no harm in letting a blind man." So they opened the door to let the man in. He stepped inside, looked both of them up and down and said, "Wow, you chicks are hot! Now where do you want these blinds?"
