Cynical Ramblings

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Thunder and Lightning, and Bare Asses, OH MY!

Raiden mo suhada ketsu OYAOYA!

雷電 (らいでん) 素肌 (すはだ) おやおや

A 2-Part Update!

July 2nd or is it 3rd…yeah technically it is the 3rd now.

Well we're here at my usual blog entry writing spot (i.e. the hard black chair at the hotel’s front desk) and it’s now nearly 2AM. Blech, I’m getting sleepy already. However, I need to make it through tonight and one more night and then I’m off for 2 days! YAY! The summer’s only about a month in and I’m already rather exhausted. Not so much as always physically but it’s somewhat hard on an emotional level. Like for instance the other day I went outside to usher in a bus with Monique and well I was yelled at quite a bit by the strikers…oddly enough though it wasn’t my name they were using! It was Crystals! You would think that after a full year of this nonsense that when the time came to yell at me up-close (not from ten feet and through a window) that they would get my name right! Moreover, it wasn’t just once or twice, no…It was over and over and over again! My back wasn’t turned to them the entire time either; I looked back at them once or twice in disbelief, so now I’m rather insulted by it. Not to mention all of the time I spent in labor board meetings with the group of misfits and their leaders scowling and attempting to intimidate me from only a few feet away, and yes, my FULL name was mentioned there several times! So honestly, you would think they would have gotten it right when it counted. It’s not that hard of a name to remember! Seriously…I shake my head at them.

Eek…just had a yucky thunder/lightning storm…it’s still pouring rain outside but the “storm” part has let up nicely now. It was so bad earlier though that Crystal had actually woken up and given me a call to see how I was holding up. Well that was nice of her! Yeah, I’m not really a fan of the whole electrical storm deal. What with the flashes of light, echoing booms and lack of electricity sometimes…ha, just not a pleasant thing at all is it?

So this brings me now to 7AM and a bit of a bustle is starting so I’ll end this here and start the replacement waiting game! Hope she’s on time! :)

Part two --> the continuation! July 3rd, uh I mean 4th!

Well it’s 4am now and I should be working on my paperwork but I’ve had a sudden bought of disbelief (and a little laughter) again over events that took place here today. When my mind starts to wander away from work there’s rarely any turning back until I’ve wasted a good many minutes. So it looks like story-time from the inside (across the picket line) it is! So tonight at the hotel it was quiet I was told, and I see now that there are only a hand full of rooms so I’d say that was accurate. Remember, I was told this through a bit of laughter and “I’m not kidding” statements. Around 8:20PM, just 40 minutes before the strikers would pack it in for yet another day of “hard work”, one of them decided to make an ass of himself…literally.

The one I feel is the most disgusting man of the bunch decided to drop his pants and underwear to our security guard, call him a fag, and a fruitcake and asking him if he wanted “some”. Some… just like that! What’s worse is that he went on and threatened the security guard saying that he hated fags (after calling him one) so he better watch out cause he kills fags….honestly! What kind of delusional moron talks like that, especially in a supposedly civilized country where you don't expect to see this on your doorstep? Hello! It’s now the year 2006, join us won’t you. It’s sad, and it makes me embarrassed to be from this town if others in the area are this ignorant and malicious for no damn good reason! You know, just remembering that in the past I would have handed this person his keys here at work and wished him a good day makes me sick to my stomach now.

Whatever his sanity problem is it reflects on all of the picketers and their representatives. This was an unnecessary (as if any is necessary) death threat and harassment upon an elder (50s or so I believe) man who was simply patrolling the grounds not interacting with anyone at all, in short doing his job and not fraternizing with the enemy so-to-speak. Seriously, I wonder how this pervert can sleep at night or look at himself in the mirror without bursting into flames or something of the sort. And to think he has actually procreated! This man is a husband and father…I have so much pity for his wife and child it’s not even funny. I’m appalled, completely and utterly appalled. I hope to God that the police can do something with this incident. Indecent exposure, death threats, harassment, whatever! JUST GET HIS SORRY ASS (ha…) OFF THE STREETS! I know they’d be a lot safer…

Well that’s my rant and rave for the night…everyone cross their fingers with me that the insanity soon ends!!!

And so continues my “exposing” blog…