# I am so dead... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 19, 2006, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-so-dead/357339 "2006-05-19T00:09:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-so-dead/357339/41 "2006-05-22T23:42:50Z")
re: Mockingbird Basically, **PunditLisa** is right. There are four local high schools serving the same area that our main client base lives in. Every 4 months some school or other is doing Catcher in The Rye, To Kill A Mockingbird, one ofthe classics - parents decide they’re not going to go and buy a new book (God forbid, those Penguin classics are _soooo_ expensive :rolleyes: )- and we, the only secondhand bookstore locally, run out of stock. Don’t know how often a trend moves from down here _to_ the states. Seems mostly it’s the reverse. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-so-dead/357339/42 "2006-05-23T00:03:18Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > **Buckler** seems to have asked the boss not to pay him. I know. But it still seems wrong that Buckler’s boss would accept that proposal. The part about being sent home was definitely cruel. BTW: **Buckler** , have I mentioned that I love your username? ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-so-dead/357339/43 "2006-05-23T01:26:14Z")
> [@Taran](#): > > It’s the same basic principle as a player piano, only quite a bit more complicated. Buying them and restoring them was his passion, his teaching just a means to an end. Oh – _organ_ organs. (I have a dirty mind!) **Buckler** – glad you still have a job. You did the right thing by accepting responsibility for your mistake and apologizing. Offering to work for free for the day to make up for your error was above and beyond the call of duty, IMO. Your boss sounds like an absolute dick. Here’s hoping you find something better soon! ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-so-dead/357339/44 "2006-05-23T13:34:54Z")
Buckler of Swashing - great name! Now I’m imagining a pirate dude at a bookstore - sexy as hell! ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-so-dead/357339/45 "2006-05-23T16:52:02Z")
I, for one, assumed it was a biology class and “automatic organs” were the heart, the lungs, the pancreas, the disembodied whale penis on the shelf, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-so-dead/357339/46 "2006-05-23T17:46:55Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > I, for one, assumed it was a biology class and “automatic organs” were the heart, the lungs, the pancreas, the disembodied whale penis on the shelf, etc. **fetus** , what a strange world you must live in… oh, wait California, right? Ok, forget what I said. **Buckler** , this isn’t exaclty a story: 1. I’m very punctual 2. Spanish law says you aren’t late to work until it’s more than 15 minutes 3. in my current job, I’ve gottes to work about 10 min late a couple of times thinking “ohGodI’mlate,I’mlatelatelate” - but nobody else gets in until 40min past 😛 Either I’ll get rid of my “Alice’s rabbit complex” or just become as unpunctual as my coworkers, I guess! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-so-dead/357339/47 "2006-05-23T17:48:15Z")
My spelling seems to be asleep today, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2006, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-so-dead/357339/48 "2006-05-23T21:16:39Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > fetus, what a strange world you must live in… > > oh, wait > > California, right? > > Ok, forget what I said. 😃 It’s actually a reference to another Doper who has a disembodied whale penis on his bookshelf. Don’t remember who, unfortunately, but supposedly it’d be his weapon of choice if robbers broke into his home. ---
**Author:** ![hammerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/73ab20/32.png) [@hammerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hammerbach)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-so-dead/357339/49 "2006-05-24T00:27:08Z")
Alternative theory about calling you later to see if you still have a job (and I know I’m giving him a HUGE benefit of the doubt): He didn’t want to make that decision while mime-throttlingly angry? …Or am I too generous? Glad you still have a job. And you shoould be proud of your work ethic and adult sensibilities. Good on ya. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-so-dead/357339/50 "2006-05-24T00:34:05Z")
> [@hammerbach](#): > > Alternative theory about calling you later to see if you still have a job (and I know I’m giving him a HUGE benefit of the doubt): He didn’t want to make that decision while mime-throttlingly angry? Not sure what your analogy is here, but I don’t have to be the least bit grumpy to want to throttle a mime. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-so-dead/357339.md?page=2)