This has been an incredibly weird couple of weeks. I've noticed that in my every day-to-day life that there will be intensely hectic periods that last a couple of weeks. And then there are weeks so tiresome a month rolls by without anything to write home about.
Last week I met some incredibly weird characters, and some wonderfully weird ones. I met a man who was convinced travelling was hocus pocus and that paradise was in front of him. A senior citizen offended by icing sugar. A young man who had his right arm amputated as a baby, and had had the amputated arm tattooed with a giant fingernail so his arm looked like an enormous finger. A man who hates the sound of coffee being made. The funniest elderly man who explicitly hates mushrooms and had happened to of seen an Australian film that my boss had one line in when she did acting as a younger woman. He pointed my boss out at the cafe and cited her line! A man who doesn't eat because he was bitten by a spider. A middle aged (Twins Peak looking) man with no teeth who tries to sell packets of floral sheets for $12 that he carries around with him everywhere. A compulsive journal writer who comes to the cafe and leaves her journal open while she goes to the bathroom and has been known to leave entries on the table. An extremely rude man who just about refused to sit down because he felt table service was not a successful way to run a business. A couple who cut each others meals into bit sized pieces and held hands while they fed each other. And this is just the list that I can remember.
For the past two weeks at work something odd has happened, it is almost as if the universe is shinning a big full moon this way and making everybody around here act odd. However, something awful did happen a couple of days ago that has a strangely fantastic end result. But more on that later.
I need to work where you work, lady - your customers are way more interesting than mine!
ReplyDeleteIt definitely is entertaining, some days it feels as though I just go there to hang out.
DeleteInteresting! Sounds exciting to me.
ReplyDeleteAlso...I love that illustration, you've got such talent miss!
Aw, thanks Carly! It was one of my very first illustrations so I thought I'd bust it out!
DeleteSounds so interesting, cant wait for the news, and im sure a full moon is ahead. LOL.
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I'm excited to share it! Thats one of the downsides to putting things out there to everyone, people from 'real life' read this and talk to other people and things get a little weird. So all in time my friend!
DeleteThis post makes me miss customer service. Although, at the same time, it makes me thankful I'm no longer doing customer service. I'm conflicted. But I must say, those little anecdotes made me laugh out loud and smile. People are so interesting. I just love how different we all are.
ReplyDeleteLast year I worked in an office and had no contact with people face to face, and I hated it. I love being in a face to face environment and seeing all kinds of people even if they're weirder than I'd imagine. Some days its a little draining, but I'm pretty easy going at work and don't let it get to me and just laugh it off. It really is amazing how different we all are indeed!
DeleteYour workplace sounds like such an interesting place! You should post lists of these characters all the time-I love strange people/human behavior :)
ReplyDeleteIt definitely is! Every single day that I work I always come home with a work story for my husband, so I just might do occasional 'work story' posts. Strange behaviour is defo entertaining!
DeleteThat spider bite one has me a bit confused
ReplyDeleteHaha, yeah I know right! This guy just drinks long black coffees. He said since he got bitten by a spider he lost his appetite.
DeleteHa whaaat this is all too strange! The amputee one is my favorite. SO WEIRD!
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great scott, this list is incredible! you should create an illustrated book/list/anything of all these characters— i'd love to flip through them all!
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