i don’t know if it’s a common thing elsewhere, but our local grocery stores hire mentally challenged people as baggers. other than the fact that they are generally kinder than most employees, nothing is unusual about it.
until today.
the man bagging my groceries was singing a song of his own composition. it went a little something like this…
“i’m off in ten friggin’ minutes,
i’ve been here since friggin’ ten o’clock.
i can’t friggin’ stand it!
i’m so frigging bored i can die…”
la la la la laaaaaa
it was pretty hilarious. and for the record, he correctly used my first envirosax (envirosack?). the second? he put in a plastic bag with my groceries. the third, he used correctly.
ay yi yi
and now, for your viewing pleasure, are the photographed FOs, mostly christmas gifts. i neglected to get photos of them all, probably because there was no sun for weeks.
for teno:
and these:
lily, nina and natalie also got slippers, but there’s have pom pons (pom poms?) because they are girls.
oh! i do have a photo, stolen from natalie’s flickr:
for lily:
a couple of things for me. not gifts, of course. i just got around to uploading them.
my soft, squishy hat:
my amazing, amazing, fast, fun, smooshy mittens that make me wish even harder than ever for snow:
oh, and the mittens i made for natalie’s birthday, but didn’t give to her until christmas day:
happy new year and happy new season of BIG LOVE!
Love your mittens and hat. I remain in hat denial, trying to believe one will do me all winter because it’s never gonna get cold and stay that way. This is a delusion that (mostly) works in Oklahoma.
The MR bag boy is a fixture here too. I’ve been in retail, so I kinda know what the deal is. Depending on your area, there are often tax advantages to hiring them. That aside, the MR bag boys and girls love their jobs, do a very good job, and are not as apt to get restless and quit as the teenagers who often man that position. It takes a little longer to teach them a new task, but generally once trained they will do it the same time every time forever, also unlike teenagers!
I also love your knittens! You do nice work. One more comment about the cognitively challenged here in Joliet- the Jewels have some type of contract with Cornerstone in which they provide simple jobs to them. My issue is this: there are at least three I have counted who cannot do their job properly. Meanwhile, my daughter cannot get hired anywhere in this town and she has tried. Oh well!
Again, love that hat!