I'm having the Three in the Mornings again, Waking dead on 3:00 a.m., it's Weird, coz that is the Witching Hour, so I do have wonderings if it is coincidental or meaningful? I usually Wake from a disturbing Dream that is bordering on being a Nightmare, but that I'm remembering after Waking in too much detail, so, that's unsettling. Anyway, so now I'm up Three full Hours earlier than I have to be to get the Grandchild to Work... dammit. She was telling me another Supervisor got Let Go or Quit, one she really liked, she has no idea Why, the Woman was well liked and a good Supervisor.
Anyway, she was told that tho' she has plenty of Sick Days built up, and is an excellent Worker, if she gets Sick again any time soon, she'll be Let Go too. She doesn't understand why they'd let you build up Sick Days you can't use without risk of being Fired for using them when you are legitimately Sick? And they Hired her completely Aware of her chronic Illnesses and Fragile Health she's had since Birth, we made that abundantly Clear to Management when they asked me if she'd come Work for them. We made it Clear she had Academic Special Needs as well, she's not Stupid, but she does have profound Learning Disabilities and was in Special Ed all her School Years.
But, I could vouch for her being an Excellent Worker, that Child had Worked alongside me since she could Walk, and that's not hyperbole. She LOVES Working and is good at any Work she's ever done and has a very Mature Work Ethic far beyond her Years. So she's an Asset to any Employer and I think that is Valuable to any Company. They have to assess, with their internal Posturing and Politics tho', who they will retain and who they will not, often to their own detriment. It's a Minimum Wage Job but with promotional opportunities into Management for the Younger ambitious Employees. Some folks have worked there for Decades, she told me it's mostly the Older Spanish Speaking Employees. And The Son was telling her, well, it's Typical that if you miss just a few Days Annually, your Job is at Risk regardless of how much Value you add or how many Sick Days you haven't even used.
Of coarse Princess T said most of those Hispanic Ladies somehow never get Sick, would Work Seven Days a Week, 24 Hours a Day and 365 Days a Year, if they had to. And she can't match that, no matter how hard she tries. And so what the Company Values may not always just be that you're a good Worker and the most likely to advance within the Company either. Becoz all of those Spanish Speaker Ladies, she said can't Read or Write in even their 1st Language tho', and are illiterate... so she doesn't feel as Uneducated, even with her profound Learning Disabilities and trouble Reading and Writing. *LOL* She's very compassionate to Help them not put something out on the Floor that they shouldn't, just becoz they have no idea what it says and that Company Policy is not to put it out on the Sales Floor.
Some sneak past and I do Buy them, coz, well, you know me, that shit Sells in my Showroom where PC is not the Order of the Day and my Customers Love it. *Bwahahahaha* If it Offends a Pearl Clutcher, they wandered into the Wrong Showroom, so, just Leave. Just like my Blog, all are Welcome, but you don't HAVE to be here. *Winks* Have I had some Complaints from those with delicate sensibilities, yeah, you always will. They seem not to be Aware they're not FORCED to go anywhere they don't want to, watch what they don't want to or Offends them, Read what they don't agree with.
So they wanna impose on everyone else's Freedoms and Free Will Choices we have in America. Banning it or 'Cancelling' Folks they wanna Silence and not be Heard by who wants to Hear that. I want that Choice, not interfered with by the Standards of Extremists Minority and Fascist or Religious Fanatic factions frankly. The Cancel Culture and Cultural Wars are out of Control IMO. Their Standards are not everyone's and my Opinion {which we ALL have those too, Right, Wrong or Indifferent}, is, make intelligent Choices for yourself, but let other Grown Ass Adults do the same. Some folks won't make good Choices on a consistent basis, and what constitutes a good Choice can be quite subjective really. I been Grown a long time, I'm capable of making a Choice without your Assistance, however well intended, respect that. I respect your Right to make yours as well.
Sometimes even my Family may not Like my Choices, but, they're mine to make, I've lived this long and done Okay with my Choices most of the time. My Choices have Served me quite well, Thank You, so Step Off and concentrate on your own Choices. *Winks* Anyway, so, yeah, if a T-Shirt that isn't PC Sneaks thru the Spanish Ladies coz they can't Read it or have no Idea what it means, I'm Down with snapping those up, most of the time, I do have my own Boundaries. *Winks* I'll Laugh at the ones I even think go Too Far tho', I ain't gonna Lie! *LOL* Some folks have a Darker Gallow's Humor, or Stronger Opinions, than even me, Believe it or not! *Smiles* BTW: Finding some Cute Blast From The Past Pixs in my Photo Archives of Family & Friends for this Post's Imagery... dredging up Memories and dusting them off. Some are Favs so have be Re-Shared time and again... some were Dustier.
Eli heard me tapping away at the Keyboard here at 3:00 a.m. and started wailing the Song of his People and jiggling the Door Handle to his Shared Room with the Granddaughter. Whose not Home and spent the Night at her Boyfriends, so Eli the Cat is feeling Lonesome for Attention and an early Grooming/Feeding coz he fucking clearly can't tell Time!!! *Eye Roll and Laughs* He'll wake the whole Household if he gets loud enuf so I've already scolded him once to behave and Calm Down. His Girl will show up when her Boyfriend drops her off before he goes to Work, Two Hours before her own Shift. He's in The Trades, so coasts by here at 5:00 a.m. to deliver her Home.
Yesterday they got her new Vehicle put into her Name and got her new License Plate ordered, she doesn't like the Letters/Numbers assigned to her, hard to remember. She's musing about whether to spend Monthly Money on a Vanity Plate, she's frugal, so I reminded her it's not worth the extra Cost. I inflated the Cost so she wouldn't Order one. *Winks* I MAY have told her it costs the amount Monthly that it actually costs Annually, on purpose. *Bwahahahaha* She doesn't know what Vanity shit she'd wanna have on it that's Clever for it anyway. *Smiles*
She told me Rusty had told her the 3rd Party place to get it that I'd suggested wasn't a good choice, he didn't know I'D suggested it when she said that tho'. *Winks* And once she told him, well, it's where my Gramma said we'd get in and out in a flash AND pay less, he changed his Mind and they went there. *Winks again* Sho' nuff, she paid way less than he'd Paid at 'his' suggested place and they were done in 7 Minutes, coz she Timed it for shits and grins to rub that in his Face too. *LOL* He had to confess, Gramma knew Best and he should have gone THERE for his and Saved himself Time and Money. *He he he*
Best part is, they Opened it right beside where she Works, so they only had to walk a few steps out the front Door of her Workplace to go do it! She has Anxiety about doing anything like that Alone, which is the only reason he was 'Necessary'. *Bwahahahahaha* I could have also taken her but he took one for the Team that day coz it was her Day Off and thus my Day Off of and from playing Uber Gramma. *Smiles* He does marvel that I always know where the Hood Hookups are and always know a Guy... or know a Guy that knows a Guy... to ensure the best Price and Service on anything under the Sun. I've cultivated my Contacts. *Winks*
So, anyway, she Paid almost less than Half of what Rusty had and spent no wasted Time getting hers done. And then teased him about, "And you're a Mexican...", they often banter about Ethnicity in a Not-PC way, now that he knows how Twisted our Family's Sense of Humor is. They recently even told me of a slur I had incorrectly made an assumption about what it meant, so it Schooled Princess T and me coz we'd both assumed it meant something completely different, or, so we're told. The term was 'Cracker' and both she and I thought it meant Saltines. *Bwahahaha* Hey, we're only part White and part folk of Color, so have never been called it, or used it, so, what can I say? *Bwahahahaha*
So, I asked The Man, what he'd always thought it implied? He had the Right Answer, of coarse. *LMAOROTF* And then he laughed his Ass off as to what the rest of us thought it implied, 'Saltines'... he kept shaking his head and muttering to himself and chuckling. *LOL* Well, Saltine Crackers are White, so, it wasn't such a Wild assumption, No? *Bwahahahahaha* Plus, I don't use Slurs, if something is Offensive and hurtful to someone in THAT way, I just think it's ignorant and crude, and I find no Humor in it. Tho' if I'd ever been called a 'Cracker' it wouldn't have Offended or bothered me personally, I'd of thought it was funny, coz... well... 'Saltines'. *Winks*
So, anyway, you Learn something New every day if you Live long enuf. *Winks* And, I Learned too from Princess T and Two of the Young Female Supervisors at her Work, that anytime I'm in there, they have Customers coming up and asking what the Wonderful Smell is that they use to Scent the Store? And they have to say, "Oh, that's her Gramma wafting around in here... she Smells so good like that!" *LMAO* I have the Nurse at the VA ask me too, saying since she got us this time, her Co-Workers asked her to ask me what I wear that always Smells so good? Nag Champa Essential Oil.
And a FUNNIER thing I found out from The Grandchild and her Co-Workers is this and you're gonna Laugh your Asses off as much as I did, I think? There's a Jehovah's Witness Woman who comes into their Store all the time and hands out Tracts and tries to Share her Religion, as they do. It's uncomfortable every time for most of them, including my Grandchild, coz they never wanna be Rude to any Customer. But don't want pushy Religious folk coming in and bothering anyone either while they're Working or Shopping, pushing Religion of any kind, it's not appropriate and it is intrusive.
So, Yesterday while I was in there wafting around, the JW Woman comes up to Princess T and a Supervisor the Grandchild was with that we know well and Like. The JW says, "I think that a Witch comes in here often!!!?? I don't know exactly Who it is tho'... but, she's in here right now..." {Ah, she sensed my Gender too, instruments of Devils are perceptive after all LOL} Ah, a Disturbance in The Force... I always get a kick out of that with the Fanatics of Extreme Religions, becoz they do always Fear us and pick up our Energy. And one would assume they wouldn't display Fear, IF their Religion was a correct one on the Side of God, that should Fear no Evil, Right? And since I'm not at all Evil {Good Witch}, and Love The Lord, it's Curious indeed, so, Why are they so Afraid??? However, Devils will be Afraid... especially of being Revealed... or Challenged... *Winks*
So, The Granddaughter and her Supervisor just Smile and said in unison, "Oh, that's her/my Gramma...", and now the JW leaves The Grandchild alone and Princess T is now Happy as a Clam at high tide about that. No more Proselytizing from that Woman, she steers clear of my Grandchild now, lest I put some Bad Juju on her Ass for bothering my Kiddo. Yay! She wouldn't wanna Anger a Witch... after all. *Winks* Okay, so anyway, I found that to be hilarious, as did her Co-Workers and Princess T. Coz the general consensus around there is, yeah, we think your Gramma is a Witch... but a Good One, and we really Like her, and Jokes abound around Staff as to what we might have at Home?! *Bwahahahahaha*
And Princess T plays along coz she thinks it's all quite hilarious, coz she said that everyone always Likes me, some even Adore me, genuinely, but that, yep, they also are Afraid of me as well, which is also rather hilarious. I'm not so Scary... I really don't Believe I am. And Princess T will Laugh and say, "But... you ARE Gramma... ask Anyone..." Well, it's subjective too I guess? *Winks* My Mom had the same Effect on folks, everyone genuinely Liked my Mom, most Adored her coz she was Adorable. But, they definitely all had reverential Fear of her as well... shit, I did... and I wouldn't have dared to Cross her either. I'm no Fool.
And you might say that was subjective too... or not. *Winks* Mom was a Righteous Woman and was always on the Side of whatever was Good and Decent. But, she had no tolerance for what was dressed up like a Righteous Person, was anything but that, and was fooling everyone or trying to. And they FEEL it when you KNOW and reveal them for what and Who they really are. And that indeed does Scare them. And the way Mom and I always saw it, if you're actually about doing The Lord's Work, and Love Him, you'd have absolutely nothing at all whatsoever to Fear from us actually. But, if you aren't, and are an Imposter... mebbe you do... *Winks again*
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The only thing you have to Fear, is Fear itself my Friends... Dawn... The Bohemian
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