What's new pussycat?
I've been busy for the past few days simultaneously seeking gainful employment and being unhappily employed. Some woman got arrested at the pharmacy for calling in bogus scripts, and she was taken away by three cops. She looked very humiliated, and her shoulders were slumped as she was being escorted out of the store. What drama.
Other than that, let's see, my workplace is a cesspool. Everyone that works there, with the exception of the store manager, is a well-meaning underachiever. Ha. Let's see, we've got the disgruntled clerks who are too lazy to find anything else, the photo people with their regular dayjobs in addition, the mostly snooty pharmacy people who think they're better than us, and last but not least, myself and the other "cosmetician and beauty advisors" who are therapists in addition to beauty product junkies.
A couple of days ago, my elderly woman friend came in. She's a cute lady, the ones that the health ed pamphlets warmed you about in the "just say no to smoking" lessons. She dutifully buys her Misty Lights 120's, then takes out "one for the road", handling it as if she were going to stir coffee with it. Well, to make a long story short, I guess she's in some type of elderly home, and apparently her offspring are all just biding their time until she passes so they can raid their inheritances. Her eyes welled up with tears and she pretty much lost it right in the middle of the store. I was pretty flabbergasted, and what could I really say to all that? She told me that the only time she gets out is to go and buy cigarettes and other treats, and barely anyone comes to visit her.
I hope that doesn't happen to me in my advanced age. Ever given a lot of thought to what will happen to you as you grow old and older? Maybe it's time we started thinking about it. There has to be a better way.
Trixie
I've been busy for the past few days simultaneously seeking gainful employment and being unhappily employed. Some woman got arrested at the pharmacy for calling in bogus scripts, and she was taken away by three cops. She looked very humiliated, and her shoulders were slumped as she was being escorted out of the store. What drama.
Other than that, let's see, my workplace is a cesspool. Everyone that works there, with the exception of the store manager, is a well-meaning underachiever. Ha. Let's see, we've got the disgruntled clerks who are too lazy to find anything else, the photo people with their regular dayjobs in addition, the mostly snooty pharmacy people who think they're better than us, and last but not least, myself and the other "cosmetician and beauty advisors" who are therapists in addition to beauty product junkies.
A couple of days ago, my elderly woman friend came in. She's a cute lady, the ones that the health ed pamphlets warmed you about in the "just say no to smoking" lessons. She dutifully buys her Misty Lights 120's, then takes out "one for the road", handling it as if she were going to stir coffee with it. Well, to make a long story short, I guess she's in some type of elderly home, and apparently her offspring are all just biding their time until she passes so they can raid their inheritances. Her eyes welled up with tears and she pretty much lost it right in the middle of the store. I was pretty flabbergasted, and what could I really say to all that? She told me that the only time she gets out is to go and buy cigarettes and other treats, and barely anyone comes to visit her.
I hope that doesn't happen to me in my advanced age. Ever given a lot of thought to what will happen to you as you grow old and older? Maybe it's time we started thinking about it. There has to be a better way.
Trixie
She told me she was one of three people that doctors were studying who were all getting their 3rd set. Docs aren't sure what triggers it, or its in a gene they all share.
ps i like your writing style