Posted by You Sir on Aug 11, 2010 in Featured, Here's to you Sir!, Once Upon a Time in a Restroom | 0 comments
Some of you probably already know this, but I have a girlfriend. I’ll give you a minute to let the shock of that sink in. Good? Okay, moving on…. Not long after we started dating, I was spending the afternoon with her and her roommate in celebration of her roommate’s birthday. It was a Saturday. I played volleyball that morning, met up with them to watch some World Cup soccer that afternoon, went back to their apartment to watch a movie, we ate some dinner, then met up with a large group of our friends later that evening. It was a fun day. All in all, I was probably away from my house for a total of about 16 hours.
After dinner, and before we went out to meet our friends, we were all getting ready. I brought a change of clothes, knowing I would be sweaty and gross from having played volleyball that morning. The ladies retired to their respective bedrooms to get ready and I went into the bathroom, the one and only bathroom in the condo. While I...
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Posted by You Sir on Jul 28, 2010 in Featured, Here's to you Sir! | 0 comments
I went to see the movie Inception last night (which is pretty amazing) and was reminded of an incredibly awkward movie theater experience that happened to me a few years ago. It was during my second round of unemployment in January of 2008. I had plenty of free time on my hands and wanted to go see a movie. What better time to do that than a Tuesday afternoon? I made my way to the theater at Atlantic Station in Midtown. As I’m walking down the long hallway a young gentleman was walking toward me and as I turned to my specific theater door, he also turned that way, opened the door for me, and we both entered.
I forget which movie I saw but it must have been a fairly popular new release because it was in the largest room they have, probably seating between 200-300 moviegoers. On this day, however, there was 1 other person, a lady that I could barely see sitting in the middle of the very back row, just beneath the projector window. As per usual, I walked half way up...
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Posted by You Sir on Jul 19, 2010 in Featured, Here's to you Sir! | 1 comment
Some of you have already heard me tell this story, but last Wednesday was one of the strangest days I’ve had in a long time. I hesitated to make this a blog post, but the entire day itself was so weird it had to be documented as proof positive I have some of the strangest encounters with people.
It started on my commute to work (of job #1, as I currently have 2 jobs). As I’m driving through the normally very empty downtown Roswell I see what, from a distance, looks like someone pushing a very large baby stroller down the sidewalk. Nothing to be concerned with here. Until I get closer and realize that it’s not a baby stroller, it’s a rolling hospital bed. And there’s not a baby in it, but a very old woman. In fact, this woman is so old, that I’m pretty sure she’s dead. I’m not joking or using this term as hyperbole, the woman had her eyes closed, was slightly curled into a fetal-type position, had a bluish-gray color to...
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Posted by You Sir on Jun 28, 2010 in Featured, Here's to you Sir! | 0 comments
Is it hot enough for ya? I mean seriously, it’s hot outside. All the time. It’s been at or near 90 degrees for at least a week and it’s only the first week of summer. This is ridiculous. I’m a relatively healthy, almost still kinda young guy, and this heat is unbearable (the terms “healthy” and “young” are used very loosely in this instance). If I’m unable to function in this kind of weather, I wonder how other people are doing. Kids don’t seem that effected by it. I still see people running and walking and enjoying outdoor exercise. And that 90 year old man holding the advertising sign board on the side of the road seems to be doing just fine.
Wait….what?
According to my most trusted weather forecasting website it was 91 degrees this past Saturday. As I was driving into town at around 12:30pm I pass an incredibly old man standing on the side of the road holding a sign advertising the one day sale of a...
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Posted by You Sir on Jun 21, 2010 in Featured, Here's to you Sir! | 1 comment
You know those scenes in movies where the guy is on a date or has a big important business meeting at some fancy restaurant and when he tries to pay his card gets declined? The waiter always approaches awkwardly, pulls the gentleman aside and tactfully informs him that “there must be something wrong with our system, but your card has been declined.” They never actually come right out and tell the guy, “hey, you’re broke and can’t afford to pay for this.” That’s excellent customer service. I know someone who could use a lesson in that.
I had pulled up to the gas station at a Kroger near my office because my truck was literally running on fumes. It was fairly busy and I had taken the last available gas pump. I inserted my debit card, as instructed, and immediately received a “See Attendant” message on the screen. Odd. Before I could even put my card back into my wallet, the attendant, sitting in her little glass box,...
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