Cal.e.'s Korner

C.: I wonder where d.c. is? He didn’t show up yesterday and he’s late today. Maybe I sould call him,….Oh, there his is.

“d.c., what’s going on?”

d.: What do you mean?

C.: Why are you late today, and why didn’t our blog get published yesterday?

d.: Oh, that. Yes, well, I’ve been…previously indisposed for the last day and one-half.

C.: Deus that mean that you’ve had diarrhea for two days?

d.: No. If you must know, I’ve been at the big grocery store on the freeway for the last day and one-hlf.

C.: I think that there is more to this story, and we need material for today’s blog, anyway, so explain what happened.

d.: Well, I went to the gym…

C.: And couldn’t find a close enough parking space, so you left and went to the grocery store? And, was it the super one on the freeway, the very large one, or the honking big one?

d.: It was the very large one, but that’s not what happened. I found an excellent parking space very close to the gym. But, it was cardio day, so I had to stay and make up the extra steps I didn’t take to get to the gym. While I was doing that, a trainer asked me if I wanted a free session. I said yes, and he put me through my paces. He was amazed at what I could do. He said I had the heart of someone one-half my age…

C.: so, he said that you had the heart of someone who was in his fifties?

d.: No, Cal.E., I’m not one hundred!

C.: d.c., I was talking about your real age, not your chronological age.

d.: Okay, that’s fair. Anyway, after I got through with my training session, I decided to finish my workout. That took until noon. Then I went to the grocery store. Who would have thought that the grocery store would be so crowded at noon a couple of days and the Saturday before Mother’s Day?

C.: Oh, I don’t know… Maybe EVERYONE?!

d.: Apparently not the manager of the store. There were only three cashiers at the store. The manager said that the rest of the cashiers and baggers were on lunch break. Then, two more of the cashiers went on lunch break, leaving only one line. Also, since the store didn’t have anyone to watch people self-check their groceries, that line was also closed.

C.: What did you need to get, d.c.?

d.: Some candy for Mother’s Day for Eudora, and something for lunch. Since I was hungry and the line was moving so slowly, I went to the fast-food restaurant across the parking lot. Then, when I came back to the store, there was still only one lane open, and no self-check lines.

I complained, so the manager told me to call their toll-free number. After the operator answered, she put me on hold until I could talk to the manager’s boss, who couldn’t correct the situation, so he put me on hold also  so I could talk to his boss, and, just as the second guy was about to answer, it was my turn to check out the small box of candy I ‘d bought Eudora for Mother’s Day.. So, I hung up my cell phone and then called the toll free number and started the whole process again.

Since I haven’t connected my knew cell phone to my truck’s radio, I sat in the parking lot until the second guy answered because I didn’t want to be a reckless driver, nor did I want to hang up the phone. It took until about twenty minutes ago for him the answer the phone.

C.: Why didn’t you want to hang up the phone if you’d already been through the line, d.c.?

d.: Because I wanted to see the call through for all the other people standing in line, and it worked! There were twicee as many cashiers checking people out when I left.

C.: So, you sat on hold for over a day so that one more cashier could be called in to work on the Saturday before Mother’s Day in the Big Honking Grocery Store On The Freeway?

d.: Yes, why?

C.:…That’s all the time we have for today, folks. Please join us tomorrow for another edition of Cal.E.’s Korner.