220 pounds of Riggatone and Me

[thisisadiana]

Good Lord, the stupidity of people never ceases to amaze me. While working the end of a shift, I was accosted by "The Riggattone Man", a rather portly gentlemen who comes in periodically from the States half an hour after the store closes to rail on about how its imperative we open the door for him so he can get his ten pounds of pasta, which he

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[revtoiletduck]

Boy, I sure am glad I don't (normally) get hit on by guys.

[thesoundofduck]

Wow.... that is a very odd, crazy, and somewhat scary experience you had! I understand wanting to go a far, mostly inconceivable distance to see someone (famous) you just really want to see!!! I really wanted to see Megan Follows (who played Anne in the Anne of Green Gables movies) in a play with her whole family! And that was only somewhere fairly far in Canada, but I still had no way to get there at the time and it was impossible and I felt sad.

Good story, I know! Don't worry though! Exciting things can still happen in Kingston/Toronto. Why just yesterday it said it would rain and it didn't! ... HOORAY!

[spacenospace]

Honestly, I believe that some people mean well and are just really socially awkward (we're talking first-hand experience here!) but that just sounds awful. This is also coming from someone who works around well over 100 socially inept nerds.

And about Kingston being the second most boring place in the universe -- at least it has water. Have you ever been to Winchester? Well, I guess you may have driven past it. That's as much as anyone needs. A tiny little electrical pinprick on the edge of memory. Two steps below that faceless university guy with the striped sweater you saw in some bar you forgot the name of.