Thursday afternoon, my boss and I sit down to watch "The Eye of the Bear" which is an Austrian movie about a metorite that awakens a neanderthal boy who befriends a girl who is wandering down the mountain he has been frozen in for the past 10,000 years.
Boss: I heard this was good, but uhh... this is so unrealistic, he's [neanderthal boy] wearing pants!
Me: You mean this isn't a true story?
Boss: Hahah. Like there's neanderthals in Austria.
Me: Arnold Schwarznegger is from Austria...
Boss: Haha.
Coworker's boss: What are you watching?
Boss: Arnold Schwarnegger: The True Story.
Sweet, I have mastered being funny in French. That's all I needed. I would have written my boss' name, but it's longer than boss, but in case you were curious, her name is Paule (the 'e' makes it a girl's name) and she is by far coolest boss ever. I didn't have any work to do Friday afternoon, so she gave me the afternoon off.
Wait that wasn't even the story!! So we're watching this movie for a while and suddenly we hear this banging and it keeps going for a while...we finally look out the window (which looks out into a hallway between the office part and the grocery store in the building) and there's some kid (17ish) banging the hand piece of the payphone. By the time we looked, he'd already taken off and broken the hand piece in HALF!!! it was nuts. I wish I'd taken a pic but Ididn't have my camera with me. And by Monday morning it was fixed. 6' , shaggy brown hair, camoflauged pants, khaki t-shirt boy breaks phone.
1. Bad timing to find out about this, still fun though. These are some other people made. Why are there so many with my name? Weird.
2. People are always trying to get rid of young people, Barry Manilow is the answer. Here is the article (linked on his name):
Is "daggy" Manilow the answer to loud cars?
Reuters
SYDNEY - Sick and tired of souped-up cars with loud engines and pulsing music? Barry Manilow may be the answer.
Officials in one Sydney district have decided to pipe the American crooner's music over loudspeakers in an attempt to rid streets and car parks of hooligans whose anti-social cars and loud music annoy residents and drive customers from businesses.
Following a successful experiment where Bing Crosby music was used to drive teenage loiterers out of an Australian shopping center several years ago, Rockdale councilors believe Manilow is so uncool it might just work.
Councilor Bill Saravinovski said local authorities plan to install a loudspeaker and pipe in Manilow music, interspersed with classical pieces, over a car park favored by car "hoons," or hooligans.
"There are restaurants nearby and people can't park in the car park because they're intimidated by these hoons," Saravinovski told The Daily Telegraph newspaper Monday.
"Daggy music is one way to make the hoons leave an area because they can't stand the music," he said.
The Oxford Concise Australian Dictionary defines "daggy" as unfashionable, or lacking style, even eccentric or stupid.
1 comment:
that's funny, I recently went to a Tim Hortons where they were playing opera music outside.
It seemed to be working flawlessly.
no hooligans.
aww poor Schwarz.
that conversation was hilarious.
:D
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