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Fourteenth Job of Bob - Park and Rec Part XVI - Slick
This entry was posted on 4/10/2008 8:18 AM and is filed under Jobs of Bob.
Slick was a fixture. You know like that equipment coach or janitor in high school - always there like part of the building. Slick had been in a jazz band back in the 1940s and was still in some remnant of one in South Dallas. He even had a clip on one of those educational documentaries you see on public television. Slick was the janitor at our park and recreation service center. I remember him dragging a broom and mop around for years. He took up shop in the men's restroom. Everyone suspected he had a bottle of liquor stashed somewhere in his work drawer. No one cared.
One day Slick was sweeping around the secretary's desk. She was musing to herself about a document she was working on. It was apparently divorce papers.
"How do you spell divorce," the secretary said. She was also a fixture. She was around 25, tiny, and blond. She carried quite a reputation for being the consummate office gate keeper. Anyway her words finally soaked into Slicks old brain.
"Divorce?" Slick said as he finally jerked his head up from the broom. "You have been married nine damn times!"
Another day Slick was back at the broom. He stopped at the bulletin board, looked at it for a bit, and then looked at me, then back at the board. I had received the Employee of the Month award and had my mug posted on the bulletin board.
Slick pointed at me and said, "How'd the hell you get Employee of the Month?" Then he glowered for a moment and continued, "All you do is stumble around here and spill God damned coffee all over my clean floors. Bull shit...awards...crazy damn people....hell!"
Stupid pop culture, media-complex, distraction-from-reality story
I see the main stream pundits are still up to their old tricks more than ever while I was gone to Iraq. So, I am thinking, each day I should continue to jot down the stupidest news story that is foist upon us by the big-media-complex as a distraction from the reality that has become America. So here we go - welcome to today's "Stupid Pop Culture, Media-complex, Distraction-from-reality Story."
The war in Iraq languishes on; the dollar collapses; gas prices have us working stiffs deciding between filling our car tanks and buying necessities; and, Washington apparently continues to be run by two-party paradigm lunatics. Good God but wait there is more! The nanny-state America that has become the real-time world of Orwell cranks up the "spiral of silence" or as I call it, the spiral of corporate stupidity.
Pickup truck sales are down and Business Week portends we do not love pickups any more. So, Ford and Dodge launch a new tactic to solve the trend. They will introduce....more new pickup trucks. Now there is some real God damned news!
Wisconsin military service person of the week
Private First Class Kyle M. Hemauer, 21, formally of Chilton, Wisconsin and most recently of Manassas, Virgina, died May 23, 2005, in Afghanistan. Hemauer was assigned to the Army National Guard's 3rd Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division based in Manassas, Virginia. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel mentioned Kyle grew up in Chilton, Wisconsin and played foot ball for the Chilton High School Tigers where he receive all-conference status. He is a 2002 graduate of Chilton, a city of about 3,800 in Calumet County, Wisconsin. He later played punter for the Northrop Grumman shipyard Apprentice School at Newport News, Virgina. There he studied sheet metal apprentice. He was named to the second offensive team of the All-Atlantic Central Football Conference. Hemauer is one of three brothers. Private First Class Kyle Hemauer was Wisconsin's second soldier to die in the Afghanistan War.
82,725 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
8,145 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,024 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
488 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
309 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
294 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
29,676 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
1,912 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
87 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
10 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
127 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
15 journalists (various nationalities) have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
Soldier of the week, military casualty, and journalist casualty information sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; cnn.com; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; washingtonpost.com; thehighground.org; Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs; iraqbodycount.org; and, icasualties.org.
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