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Mrs Crockett's Seafood
May. 16th, 2008 11:35 amWhen I came into the office this morning, my normally gentlemanly and diplomatic colleague Brian greeted me with, "Good morning, Puffy!" So that should tell you how my face looks today. I've got a wisdom tooth coming through again, which is a regularly occurring nuisance. This time, though, the right side of my face has puffed up like a, well, like a lop-sided puffer fish. It's quite painful.
I was pretty miserable with the puffy face last night - headachey and running hot and cold - so I spent the evening huddled under a blanket watching TV. And that's how I came across an entry in the TV guide that I was sorry I had missed: Leo Sayer performing with the Wiggles! Just look at that photo. If that's not a match made in heaven, I don't know what is. And in finding that photo I've discovered that Leo and the Wiggles have released a version of "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing", which begs the question: am I too grown up to buy a Wiggles CD for my own entertainment?
No, I don't think I am.
Watching TV last night also made me realise that I am too lazy to be a criminal mastermind. I watched CSI:NY, in which a criminal mastermind had first assembled a large jigsaw of New York, removed the piece showing a particular building, disassembled the jigsaw, heat-sealed the bag to suggest it hadn't been opened, then left it on a CSI's car. Then when the CSI's assembled the jigsaw for themselves and worked out that they were meant to find the building represented by the missing piece (which took them a lot longer to work out than it took me, I might add, even though (a) it's their job and (b) I was sick), they found a second jigsaw puzzle to make, with another missing piece, suggesting the criminal mastermind had repeated that whole process. And if that wasn't enough, the criminal mastermind had also gone to the trouble of collecting rare stones for the CSIs to examine and work out another location based on where the stones are found. The CSI people obviously get paid to do all that, but the criminal mastermind who thought of it in the first place? Doing it in his free time. Boy, does he need a hobby. Or someone to tell him what maps are for.
Before my face puffed up yesterday, I did the bi-weekly shopping. At the checkout, the girl scanned the dairy products, blip, blip, blip, then started on the fruit. Bananas, mandarins, Mrs Crockett's Seafood... wait, what? I said to the girl, "I didn't buy any seafood" and she looked in the bag and on the counter and agreed. So she tried to remove it, but the checkout is set up so that she can only remove items by rescanning them, and of course she hadn't scanned any Mrs Crockett's Seafood in the first place. She called another girl over and they consulted for a while before deciding that the best course of action was to cancel the whole thing and start again. So they took everything out of the bag and scanned the dairy products, blip, blip, blip, then started on the fruit. Bananas, mandarins, Mrs Crockett's Seafood. They asked the girl at the next checkout to try entering the mandarin code and her readout brought up "Mrs Crockett's Seafood". The three of them stood there looking baffled, so I suggested starting over and leaving out the mandarins (because I'm a thinker) and everything went as it should. As I paid, I suggested trying the mandarins by themselves and up came "Mandarins $0.86". So that was... odd.
I was pretty miserable with the puffy face last night - headachey and running hot and cold - so I spent the evening huddled under a blanket watching TV. And that's how I came across an entry in the TV guide that I was sorry I had missed: Leo Sayer performing with the Wiggles! Just look at that photo. If that's not a match made in heaven, I don't know what is. And in finding that photo I've discovered that Leo and the Wiggles have released a version of "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing", which begs the question: am I too grown up to buy a Wiggles CD for my own entertainment?
No, I don't think I am.
Watching TV last night also made me realise that I am too lazy to be a criminal mastermind. I watched CSI:NY, in which a criminal mastermind had first assembled a large jigsaw of New York, removed the piece showing a particular building, disassembled the jigsaw, heat-sealed the bag to suggest it hadn't been opened, then left it on a CSI's car. Then when the CSI's assembled the jigsaw for themselves and worked out that they were meant to find the building represented by the missing piece (which took them a lot longer to work out than it took me, I might add, even though (a) it's their job and (b) I was sick), they found a second jigsaw puzzle to make, with another missing piece, suggesting the criminal mastermind had repeated that whole process. And if that wasn't enough, the criminal mastermind had also gone to the trouble of collecting rare stones for the CSIs to examine and work out another location based on where the stones are found. The CSI people obviously get paid to do all that, but the criminal mastermind who thought of it in the first place? Doing it in his free time. Boy, does he need a hobby. Or someone to tell him what maps are for.
Before my face puffed up yesterday, I did the bi-weekly shopping. At the checkout, the girl scanned the dairy products, blip, blip, blip, then started on the fruit. Bananas, mandarins, Mrs Crockett's Seafood... wait, what? I said to the girl, "I didn't buy any seafood" and she looked in the bag and on the counter and agreed. So she tried to remove it, but the checkout is set up so that she can only remove items by rescanning them, and of course she hadn't scanned any Mrs Crockett's Seafood in the first place. She called another girl over and they consulted for a while before deciding that the best course of action was to cancel the whole thing and start again. So they took everything out of the bag and scanned the dairy products, blip, blip, blip, then started on the fruit. Bananas, mandarins, Mrs Crockett's Seafood. They asked the girl at the next checkout to try entering the mandarin code and her readout brought up "Mrs Crockett's Seafood". The three of them stood there looking baffled, so I suggested starting over and leaving out the mandarins (because I'm a thinker) and everything went as it should. As I paid, I suggested trying the mandarins by themselves and up came "Mandarins $0.86". So that was... odd.