Get Cynical

Important: If you are buying something and the scanner doesn’t work, and you say “Must be free!” and offer a shit-eating grin, well then shame on you. Presumably you believe the clerk is thinking: “Boy! what a silly guy! Perhaps his background is in improvisational comedy!” But you are wrong. Dead wrong. What the clerk is really thinking is: “If one more person says that today, I will attack with such ferocity that seasoned police officers will weep upon discovering the bloody remains.”

It must be from my experience working in a supermarket that I love to hear people’s work experience stories. This is one from an employee of Barnes and Noble.
(via J-Walk Blog)

We are having a pretty bad Nor’easter right now however almost any storm pales in comparison to the Blizzard of ’78. Some facts of the Blizzard:

33 hours of snow fall
3,500 cars stranded on 128
3 inches of snow per hour
79 mph winds in Boston
27″ of snowfall in Foxboro
15ft snow drifts reported
1 week to open roads
2 weeks to open schools

I was only four at the time so I don’t have too many memories of the blizzard. The only one that really sticks out is that to plow my road they used a tank from the National Guard.