Looking like it’s just me, my patrol car, and a lot of lonely Florida county road this Turkey Day. Wife and kids are over at our friends for Thanksgiving dinner and all I’m hoping for is the local Waffle House to stay open for my dinner or it’s just three ham sandwiches, an apple and a thermos of coffee for my feast.
Well I’m thankful for a great wife and good kids. Also that I didn’t get tabbed to stand watch over this horrendous vote recount bullshit happening all over our goofy state. I feel sorry for my fellow law enforcement officers here in Florida that had to draw that short straw. I couldn’t stand to be in a room with that many lawyers and party hacks.
Anyway, happy Turkey Day to all SDMBers, wherever you may be.
B) Get ready to get family out of the way. The Real Americans set up this fiasco. Now we get all the lawyers and party hacks in one place, then conduct neutron bomb tests there. Presto, they’re all gone, country is better off. FL chosen since wind could blow the minimal fallout out to sea.
I have a home-based business in addition to the “real” job, so today I get a day away from the office (yahoo! :)) and get to work on the work I really like to do.
The only work I did today was in the kitchen. Now everyone is stuffed and watching some football game, and I’m hiding in the dim glow of the monitor… very very nice!
Just got up a half hour ago. (I work swing shift.) I’ll be working tonight, 7:00 to 3:00. Hope I make some money tonight.
BTW, at a the casino where I worked the past two Thanksgivings, the waitresses in the restaraunts complained about the fact that they made hardly anything in tips, despite the fact that they were fairly busy, what with all the people choosing to eat Thanksgiving dinner out.
Apparently all those schmucks who are too lazy to cook for their families on Thanksgiving are also too stingy to leave a nice tip for the gal who has to work so that they can get out of cooking. A lot of them didn’t tip at all.
If you eat out, please leave a nice, fat tip for the waitress who doesn’t get to be with her family because you don’t want to cook.
I worked today from 3-7, not bad really. I had to get up at 0600 to get the bird in the oven in time to have it ready by 1230, though. I had a great big dinner, 1/2 hour nap and then went to work at the hospital.
I got home about 8:15, finished cleaning up my kitchen and decided to check the board for a few minutes and then go to bed. Yeah I know, I’m a wild woman.
Well, I have a government job, so I had today off. Gotta work tomorrow, though.
I have worked many a Thanksgiving day in the past, at Dunkin’ Donuts, and we had a lot of fine police officers stopping in on the holidays. Thanks for taking care of us, my friend. You are admired, respected, and appreciated more than you know.
Yep. Working in a video store on Thanksgiving. To celebrate, I made a hand turkey and cut a little thought bubble that said “gobble gobble. Eat more steak. gobble gobble.” It amused the hell out of me.
That, and about 50 calls saying “Oh, you’re open?” No, we’re not. I just get paid time and a half to answer the phone and tell you we’re NOT open. And then they would invariably ask “What time are you closed?” The last call of the day I answered without saying hello. Just “NINE O’CLOCK!” The guy giggled. Heh.
Sigh, I spent all day telecommuting. Worked about 15 hours today, and no-one will know, no-one will notice and no-one will pay me for it. Just the boring old crap that keeps the business alive, and everybody employed. Its about time to hit the turkey- Wild turkey whiskey of course hehe, and there is little doubt I’ll be having seconds and beyond.
I worked tonight. 6-midnight. It sucked. Around the holidays everyone decides Christmas gifts are more important than their pet’s health, and we do a lot of euthanasias.
