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STARBUCKIANS ON STORE RECEIPT TAPE

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I'd like to start wearing a mouth protector to work cause I think it looks cool. You know, that plastic thing that football players wear in their mouths and then spit out in between plays, and it hangs from a strap on their faceguards with spit ropes swinging off it? Of course, then I'd have to wear a helmet, but I don't think I'd mind that. I could listen to my iPod Shuffle and nobody would know. I'd probably look sort of autistic with that get-up on, but I am, kind of, anyway. And I think it would probably help me at my job because people would be afraid that I'd jump up and tackle them on the spur of the moment, so they'd be more inclined to handle me with kid gloves. Not literally, of course, that would be kind of creepy. Don't need more creepiness. It's creepy enough to have a job at all. To go to an "office" and answer the "phone" and have "co-workers" and all that stuff. And sooner or later it leads to having to "step up". And anyone who knows me know that I'm not a step-upper. I'm more of a step-back-into-the-crowd or step-into-the men's-room-until-it-blows-over kind of guy. I'm just not cut out for adulthood, tell you the truth. Which can be a real liability for someone my age.

Posted on Saturday, November 10, 2007 at 03:46PM by Registered CommenterSparky Donatello in | Comments7 Comments

Reader Comments (7)

Being handled with kid gloves might be kind of nice. Although not necessarily by your co-workers.
And all you have to do is "step up"? That must be one of the many differences between Murricans and Canajans because up here, we're expected to "step up to the plate." I stepped up once but didn't see any damn plate.
Of the Starbuckians, my fave is Mrs. Sour Puss, at the upper right, who is wearing a tape reading "Pass the Cheer."
November 10, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterTerry the Canuck
Did you take your sketchbook into the men's room? Or is that man peeing right there in Starbuck's?
November 10, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterPaula de la Fontaine
makin the latte...
November 10, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterSparky
Yeah, T the C, it's short for stepping up to the plate, which I always thought I excelled at until I understood it was referring to baseball.
November 10, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterSparky
Ohhhh, baseball. See, I thought it was like a plate of chocolate chip cookies that you were supposed to step up to and help yourself to. That's why I was always disappointed...
November 11, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterTerry the Canuck
Fifty dollar bill? Don't see many of those.
November 11, 2007 | Unregistered Commentertinyhands
Hey! Quit analyzin my receipts!
November 11, 2007 | Unregistered CommenterSparky

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