Catch up
So I guess I've been busy with work and other stuff recently. There's a few things happened in the last few weeks but before I get into all that:
History Of A Town Called Nowhere
So the town I live in was originally a mining village that consisted of one street a few houses and several mines owned by a few families and it grew from that sometime in the 1800's, I suppose that's one of the things about living in a small town that most people have never heard of there's a history behind everything, which is kind of interesting. I haven't really found a reason as to why a small town would have so many pubs:
The Podger
The Crusader
The Miners Arms
The Newmarket Inn
The Bird In Hand
The Gaping Goose
The Gascoigne
The Old George
I've no idea what a podger? is so don't ask. So here's a few pictures of my town no one's heard of
Main Street
As the name implies this is the main street of my town which has been there since the very beginning in one form or another and is now home to the majority of shops in the area, and is usually swarming with pasty faced juvenile delinquents on schooldays.
Edge of Nowhere
This is the main road at the edge of my town, the road runs around the side of the town pretty much all the
way 'round.
Horizon At The Edge Of Nowhere
It's nothing but farmland for 3 miles or so from here which is nothing in comparison to America but compared to some places where you have to drive for an hour to see grass it's pretty big. Used to be a lot bigger too 'til they started building offices and the like.
Here Endeth The Lesson.
We're All Doomed!
So my place of work flooded a week or so back that was quite bizarre and highly amusing from my point of view since we were all still working at the time. That's what happens when you get shoddy contractors in to refit the store out goes the concrete and corrogated iron in the roof in comes the cheap plastic panneling. Hmmm I wonder which is most likely to give way in the event of torrential rain? It was quite surreal when waterfalls started appearing inside the store in several different places and because the whole store is on a slant ( Those shoddy contractors again) all the water was running towards the front of the store where all the checkouts are. Which equals lots of wet and rather displeased customers. Then half the lights blew and we closed the store 61/2 hours early. Nothing gets lazy managers running around more than losing money ( the whole thing lost the company 50,000).
Smile Time
So I had my "Smile Training" the other day, I'm not making this up apparently the management up in the ivory tower have decided that the reason that the company loses money to it's competitors is due to the fact that the staff don't walk around looking like the Joker on a particlarly unbalanced day. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that half our stock is more expensive than other stores and our "Special Offers" which are anything but "Special". So everyone has to sign this piece of paper ( the joys of bureaucracy) to say they understand the "Eight commitments to our customers". Most people who go in a supermarket don't want to be there they definately don't want some grinning loon to come up to them and start bugging them with a load of questions. If I'm in a shop and I want help I'll ask for it don't start getting in my face as soon as I've walked in the place that's just annoying.
Decisions, Decisions.
So a new girl started at work a few weeks ago and I like her and we seem to get on okay but my heads in a weird place now. How long do you have to wait before you ask someone if they want to go out sometime? I don't want to seem like some psycho. I can't stress how bad I am when it comes to the opposite sex I don't know whether she likes me 'cause I'm a nice guy or whether it's more than that, I think my company stopped employing single people after they hired me so it's giving me a bit of a headache.
Outside
I figured people are probably sick of pictures of me in my room so I did this the other day it's a pretty bad picture though. Feel free to laugh and leave mocking comments.
So I guess I've been busy with work and other stuff recently. There's a few things happened in the last few weeks but before I get into all that:
History Of A Town Called Nowhere
So the town I live in was originally a mining village that consisted of one street a few houses and several mines owned by a few families and it grew from that sometime in the 1800's, I suppose that's one of the things about living in a small town that most people have never heard of there's a history behind everything, which is kind of interesting. I haven't really found a reason as to why a small town would have so many pubs:
The Podger
The Crusader
The Miners Arms
The Newmarket Inn
The Bird In Hand
The Gaping Goose
The Gascoigne
The Old George
I've no idea what a podger? is so don't ask. So here's a few pictures of my town no one's heard of
Main Street
As the name implies this is the main street of my town which has been there since the very beginning in one form or another and is now home to the majority of shops in the area, and is usually swarming with pasty faced juvenile delinquents on schooldays.
Edge of Nowhere
This is the main road at the edge of my town, the road runs around the side of the town pretty much all the
way 'round.
Horizon At The Edge Of Nowhere
It's nothing but farmland for 3 miles or so from here which is nothing in comparison to America but compared to some places where you have to drive for an hour to see grass it's pretty big. Used to be a lot bigger too 'til they started building offices and the like.
Here Endeth The Lesson.
We're All Doomed!
So my place of work flooded a week or so back that was quite bizarre and highly amusing from my point of view since we were all still working at the time. That's what happens when you get shoddy contractors in to refit the store out goes the concrete and corrogated iron in the roof in comes the cheap plastic panneling. Hmmm I wonder which is most likely to give way in the event of torrential rain? It was quite surreal when waterfalls started appearing inside the store in several different places and because the whole store is on a slant ( Those shoddy contractors again) all the water was running towards the front of the store where all the checkouts are. Which equals lots of wet and rather displeased customers. Then half the lights blew and we closed the store 61/2 hours early. Nothing gets lazy managers running around more than losing money ( the whole thing lost the company 50,000).
Smile Time
So I had my "Smile Training" the other day, I'm not making this up apparently the management up in the ivory tower have decided that the reason that the company loses money to it's competitors is due to the fact that the staff don't walk around looking like the Joker on a particlarly unbalanced day. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that half our stock is more expensive than other stores and our "Special Offers" which are anything but "Special". So everyone has to sign this piece of paper ( the joys of bureaucracy) to say they understand the "Eight commitments to our customers". Most people who go in a supermarket don't want to be there they definately don't want some grinning loon to come up to them and start bugging them with a load of questions. If I'm in a shop and I want help I'll ask for it don't start getting in my face as soon as I've walked in the place that's just annoying.
Decisions, Decisions.
So a new girl started at work a few weeks ago and I like her and we seem to get on okay but my heads in a weird place now. How long do you have to wait before you ask someone if they want to go out sometime? I don't want to seem like some psycho. I can't stress how bad I am when it comes to the opposite sex I don't know whether she likes me 'cause I'm a nice guy or whether it's more than that, I think my company stopped employing single people after they hired me so it's giving me a bit of a headache.
Outside
I figured people are probably sick of pictures of me in my room so I did this the other day it's a pretty bad picture though. Feel free to laugh and leave mocking comments.
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Have you asked that girl out yet?