I like to fashionably late, not only to parties but to current events, as well. Mostly because I prefer Cartoon Network to CNN. Anyway, this being the case, I didn’t know until just now that Michaela Watkins had not been asked back to SNL for the ‘09-’10 season. Here I was on the edge of [...]

Last year, exactly a week before Thanksgiving, I found a memo in my work cubby. That’s right, cubby. We don’t have the big, scary, timewasting internets at work, so we get memos from corporate by fax and they are stuck in our cubbies.
Anyway, the cubbymail to everyone that day included a survey. It said [...]

Two women came in a few weeks ago and ordered some flowers for next week. One was very loud and confident and extremely specific about what she wanted. I could tell she was used to getting it. The other woman mostly just stood quietly next to her. The few times she spoke up, she was [...]

Customer, after explaining bouquet she wants me to make, in great detail: “How long will it take you?”
Me: “Ten to fifteen minutes.”
Customer: “TEN TO FIFTEEN?”
Me, having had it up to here with this lady already: “Yes.”
Customer: “I don’t know if I want it, then.”
Me, laughing at how this might go on for ten to fifteen [...]

The next installment of 100 Bad Dates is up, and it’s all about princesses and petty larceny.
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