Something Sweet, Something Tender

This is pretty much me at work these days. Roaming the aisles with that disgruntled look on my face, grumbling "radda radda radda" under my breath while greeting my boss' cheerful salutations with austere, thin-lipped, baleful glares lined with dark, puffy circles. But somehow I get my job done and go home without clocking anybody, which I guess should make me a smidge happier somehow (although the clocking of people would probably make me a lot happier). Morale is crushingly low all over the store, however, so I really have no room to talk. Even if everyone else is getting paid a dozen times more than me and still has their full time jobs... radda radda...

Maybe even the customers are picking up the bad vibes. Yesterday we had to pull two shoppers off of each other due to getting into a scrap over a difference of opinion concerning the elections. Apparently one woman was loudly braying about how she was going to vote for McCain, and some guy shouted back at her "If you vote fer McCain, yer STOOOOOPID!" to which she replied "Well at least I'm not voting for a terrorist!" and it basically escalated from there. But really, I think this is less indicative of the situation at the store and more an example of how politically divided our state has become since practically 1964, which I think is the last time our little red state turned blue (correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Virginia also vote for Bob Dole in 1996? I can't remember). It's going to be an interesting election, to be certain. Last night chatting on the phone with wemblee she said she wanted to change the topic from the election to bad Highlander fanfiction, and I told her that as far as I'm concerned, this election is playing out just like bad Highlander fanfiction. THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE.

Anyway, I'm sucking it up. I'm getting through this until my last vacation day this week, where I go to New York City tomorrow and rest up for another day. Then I'm hoping, things may change. For the better, this time. Gadzooks, it's about time, I should say.