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Born to the loving graces of a professional sword swallower and a chartered accountant, my life began ordinarily enough. Most of my imaginary youth was spent in the company of wild photocopiers. Initiating myself into the "Paper Shredders" I would see a great deal of the inside of hospitals and jails due to our constant warring over territory with the malevolent shopping trolleys. Rescued by the infamous ZuckerBaby from the downward spiral of gang life, I find myself here, disembodied in a computer.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

A Life Most Fortunate

I have just gone through and read all my previous posts.

My dear god, I am an immeasurable twit am I not?

So I shall get you few, you wondrous few, up to speed. I am once again back at my Fathers abode, but my father, not here. He is off and about the world entertaining the masses. As he should. His last couple of years doing "A real job" was not only painful for himself (I'm sure) but for those of us watching. A man of that talent is a veritable crime scene in such a job. And I shall say no more about it.

So here I am unemployed (yes, once again) but living in a mansion in the swanky part of town. It is a strange affair when one looks out from one's (well someone else's) balcony, knees shaking from malnutrition, and sees a wonderful view, knowing well that no one in an eighteen kilometer radius has ever looked though a bin for a cigarette butt. It's humbling, but backwards.

I quit my job because I could no longer handle people yelling at me. That is the be all and end all of it. I know in previous posts I have made fickle rants about my lack of enthusiasm of large company policies, but that was not it. I just could no longer handle being the brunt of others aggression. I have worked in pubs and call centres for going on fourteen years now and quite frankly I think I have used up my "Abused Because You're There" quota. Let a younger and more absorbent pleb run the gamut of idiots that only think in hindsight. Let a more robust and idealistic person try to argue the merits of reading "Terms and Conditions" before clicking "I Agree" to people who believe that the Duty of Care does not stop at actual breast feeding them facts.

I'm done.

So once again I blog to you without a foreseeable future. Once again do I display the characteristics of a shopping bag adrift on air currents yet without so much of the So Lovely Your Heart Will Burst but more of a Why Doesn't This Abandoned Shopping Bag Get It's Act Together And Make It's Way Back To The Shopping Centre And Do It's Job. That will make a lot more sense to those of you who have seen American Beauty.

So in summary, I'm here, I'm alive, I have no intention of going anywhere, and I ain't gunna give up until I do it right.

And there, I think, is essentially what everybody is doing.

Just most people are using more magenta than cyan.

4 Comments:

Blogger Taqwa said...

Thats not entirely true. You got yourself a sweet DM'ing gig :D

7:42 PM  
Blogger Electric Chikken said...

Damn right on the DM'ing. And thanks for cranking out visuals on our dudes. I wish these fun, creative ventures resulted in a monetary boost of some sort, but it hasn't been the case in my experience, short of the occasional food-stamps for playing bass.

And leave the verbal abuse to freaks like me that (somehow) enjoy speaking to irate customers.

2:00 AM  
Blogger Lucas said...

"Let a younger and more absorbent pleb run the gament of idiots that only think in hindsight."

Check. Present and accounted for.

And as for the "no one grubbing for cigarettes" ratio, I'd bet you'd be surprised.

Good to see you blogging again.

9:41 AM  
Blogger TobbĂ« said...

Thank you Lads.

'Tis nice to have some visitors. And, of course, thanks for taking up the slack with the phone calls from hell now that I'm gone. I would love to return (if only for the camaraderie) but you know call centres, they kind of like you to answer the phone. The philistines ;)

5:03 PM  

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