Odes from Work: The Recent

Odes from Work: The Recent

The Most Expensive Cupcakes Ever Or: Why you should also use a map feature in conjunction with a shopping feature on your smart phone.  Winsome city dweller From far off and ignorant places Hemmed in by all that your iPhone apps allow you to believe No, we cannot deliver three cupcakes To Cavalier, North Dakota A small [...]

Just the cream, ma’am, just the cream.

Just the cream, ma’am, just the cream.

I always think there is nothing a customer can say that will catch me off guard; after all this time, I think I’ve heard it all. Wrong. There is no end to the inanity. The three, two women and a man, ordered coffee with their dessert as they finished out their lunch. It took a [...]

A disturbing trend.

A disturbing trend.

It started when the women’s restroom was out of order, leaving us the men’s restroom. I stood there, in the restroom, looking at a strange little mat on the floor around the toilet. What in the world is that for? I wondered. I pondered its usage. It looked a bit like a stress mat that [...]