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And so - complain, complain, work.
4 days this weekend at the restaurant...and I'm working with Sketchy East Shore Pam.
And the other waitress, Cathy, who is a professional server and knows what she's doing.
She's not a problem.
But Sketchy East Shore Pam, on a variety of anti-psychotics, probably drunk, and - I'm increasingly of the opinion, high on meth, is proving a nightmare.
I overlap shifts with her - I open, she starts at 4:30. She has to take the Ferry to get here. And when she gets here she always needs a few minutes to put on her makeup.
It doesn't help.
And she starts. And she's nothing but pure chaos, she gets to her table limit, which is two, maybe three, and so I'm staying now into the evening picking up the tables she can't handle. And looking after the tables she says she can. And I can't complain because otherwise I'd be doing it myself, - anybody is better than nobody, but she's a fucking nightmare. It's like paying someone to do it yourself. She's lost, lost, lost. And I want out. And she chatters endlessly, tells me how much she's done this, how good she is, how fancy her manners are - and it's all "Nope", be pleasant - but - ....
It's 8:00 before I can cut and leave. She's an hour and a half to sweep and close. "See you!" and I wave goodbye.
She calls the Cathy in tears. I was an asshole and left her with the close by herself and her cash doesn't balance and...
Cathy and I, we're of a similar mind. We laugh. But she's a fucking nightmare.
This morning, early at work - because even with an hour and a half to close I'm going to have to do it again - sweep, mop, etc, etc.
Sketchy East Shore Pam, would fit right in at Newkey's on the East Shore, but she ain't fitting in so well here...
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More of a shelf of the Kitschy treasures he can't bear to bring himself to let go of...
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Homeless, raining out, to the Gazebo. Not ideal, others of the homeless have the same idea, there are only 3 benches here. I have a visitor, noticing a trend amongst them - addiction &/or Mental Illness, unemployment, this one, she's talking and it comes out, her own tragedies, mental battles. I listen until it's time to go to sleep, she's off checking her phone, doing some art, other people come and go. She helps to pull my bench in from the end of the Gazebo, more shelter from the rain. In the morning she's left me a stale bunch of buns and a painting (presumably she drew).
Anyways, starting to wonder if there's something in me that I'm missing, the prevalence of mental illness amongst the homeless; am I that? Or have I become? It becomes harder and harder to chalk it up to mere circumstance, it's time now for me to build again on a slightly more solid foundation...
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Yesterday, at the thrift shop, I suggested they play Nick Cave.
This didn't last so long with my partner, who listened to about 5 songs and then changed the music.
Whatever.
And then - in the evening - I heard of his second son's death.
This man, he's going through the trials of Job. And this, this, well... you wish this on no one. Certainly not someone you hold in such high regard.
And I know he has faith - of the Christian order, and I know he thinks - but this heartbreak, it's beyond reason. There's nothing I can say. No commiseration that doesn't sound trite - and - while I can well imagine his pain - and in some measure share it - I have no desire to live through it's equivalent. Imagining it is but a pale shadow of what he is living...
SO I am sorry and I hope he can survive this. And if he doesn't I understand. But - fucking hell - he's being put through it. The trials of Job. The test of all faith beyond all reasonable limits...
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A genius far ahead of his time. Pity he wasn't born today, think of all the fun he would have had with real-estate, crypto and NFT's.
And, if you'd prefer to read about it all (I would have, although the video was entertaining...) try these links:
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Lustig
The Smithsonian: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/man-who-sold-eiffel-tower-twice-180958370/
Mental Floss: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12809/smooth-operator-how-victor-lustig-sold-eiffel-tower