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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
bloggable moment!
Just after I wrote that post I headed out to good old Whole Foods for a little shopping expedition. I got to drive right past the stupidest bike lane in America, woo! Anyway, just as I drove into the very small parking lot, a tow truck was backing up towards one of the cars in the lot. They are extremely strict about this parking lot only being for Whole Foods customers and I've definitely seen someone being towed out of there before. But perhaps 3:45 in the afternoon was not the right time to block the entire parking lot so that no cars could come or go? Yes, I think not.
Annoyed as I was with having to sit around so that some parking violator's car could be towed, I just put the car in park and turned up the radio. Not so one of the people who was trying to leave her parking spot. She proceeded to get out of the car, scream (and I mean scream) at the tow truck driver and the parking lot security guy, and then go in, find the manager, and scream at him. Okay, it was a little ridiculous that they were blocking the entire parking lot just to tow one person out, but really. Everyone else just put their patient pants on (well, sort of, there were a few honkers) until they figured out a way for us to move, but this lady had to throw a conniption fit. You might think this was some bleached blonde in a Mercedes, but no, it was an older woman in a Taurus.
So the moral of the story is that I should have walked.
Annoyed as I was with having to sit around so that some parking violator's car could be towed, I just put the car in park and turned up the radio. Not so one of the people who was trying to leave her parking spot. She proceeded to get out of the car, scream (and I mean scream) at the tow truck driver and the parking lot security guy, and then go in, find the manager, and scream at him. Okay, it was a little ridiculous that they were blocking the entire parking lot just to tow one person out, but really. Everyone else just put their patient pants on (well, sort of, there were a few honkers) until they figured out a way for us to move, but this lady had to throw a conniption fit. You might think this was some bleached blonde in a Mercedes, but no, it was an older woman in a Taurus.
So the moral of the story is that I should have walked.
oh dear
Oops, looks like it's been awhile since I last posted on here. I know I still have at least one reader though, right Katie? Anyway, since my last update I've finished up the quarter and gone home for Spring Break (where it managed to snow, thanks Mother Nature).
Now I'm in my last quarter ever (or so I think). I'm just taking two classes (Descriptive Cataloging and Young Adult Services) and getting my portfolio finished up so that I can actually graduate!
I've also been Facebooking more than ever. Now that everyone and their brother is on Facebook (including my professors), I find myself using it a lot more. I was about the last person to join in the Scrabulous craze, but I've been entertaining myself with the quite a bit recently.
Wow, what an exciting life! I did stay up the latest I have in years a few weekends ago when I went out with some library school peeps, so I'm not that boring. We hung out with the hipsters in Silver Lake and Echo Park and then went out to eat afterwards, so I did not arrive home until 4am. That was very late for this old lady. So, see? I'm not THAT boring.
Lastly, I would like to leave you with the stupidest bike lane in America. Shockingly enough, it is in my very own neighborhood. Why am I not surprised?
Now I'm in my last quarter ever (or so I think). I'm just taking two classes (Descriptive Cataloging and Young Adult Services) and getting my portfolio finished up so that I can actually graduate!
I've also been Facebooking more than ever. Now that everyone and their brother is on Facebook (including my professors), I find myself using it a lot more. I was about the last person to join in the Scrabulous craze, but I've been entertaining myself with the quite a bit recently.
Wow, what an exciting life! I did stay up the latest I have in years a few weekends ago when I went out with some library school peeps, so I'm not that boring. We hung out with the hipsters in Silver Lake and Echo Park and then went out to eat afterwards, so I did not arrive home until 4am. That was very late for this old lady. So, see? I'm not THAT boring.
Lastly, I would like to leave you with the stupidest bike lane in America. Shockingly enough, it is in my very own neighborhood. Why am I not surprised?
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