The annoying thing about going out in public is having to deal with all of the people who are incompetent and stupid and make me want to peel my skin off with a seafood fork. Like, okay, so there’s a Barnes and Noble near my apartment and I basically live there because they provide free wifi and access to an unlimited supply of iced tea, but the people who work there? Totally the D team of Starbucks employees. To the point where I sometimes want to leap over the counter and pour the fucking tea in the fucking cup myself, because, um, HOW HARD IS IT TO REMOVE A PITCHER OF TEA FROM THE FRIDGE AND POUR IT IN A CUP WITH ICE IN UNDER TWENTY MINUTES AND NO I DON’T WANT A MULTI-GRAIN BAGEL BECAUSE YOUR FUCKING MULTI-GRAIN BAGELS HAVE RAISINS IN THEM AND I HATE RAISINS AND I’M STILL TRAUMATIZED FROM THE LAST TIME.
Which is to say that I’m pretty sure I need to just stop what I’m doing with my life and focus instead on total world domination and the mass elimination of situations that make me stabby. Like calling customer service. And taking the number 30 bus where people think it’s totally cool to hold raw chicken in their hands while sitting next to me. And basically anything that has to do with the San Francisco Department of Parking and Traffic.
Hmm, you know, the more I think about world domination (and the more wine I drink while thinking about world domination), the better this plan seems. Although the downside of the plan is that I’m actually pretty lazy and would much prefer to lay around the apartment and eat mac and cheese and watch The West Wing than do anything that actually furthers my taking over the world and before you judge me, how about you try watching The West Wing for 7+ hours straight and tell me you don’t walk away with the world’s biggest political boner.
God, and speaking of politics and being unnecessarily turned on, I’ve been reading this memoir called Government Girl about a chick who started working in the Clinton White House when she was like eighteen and it’s so badass and reading it makes me furious that I didn’t go to college in DC because I never got to answer George Stephanopoulos’ fan mail and flirt with Rahm Emanuel and stand on a Japanese balcony hugging President Clinton and, wait, it’s suddenly completely clear that I can’t go anywhere near the damn White House because politics make me wet and hugging Bill Clinton on a balcony would clearly end with my sharing a room in whore rehab with Monica Lewinski.
So, new plan: I’m going to befriend the author of that book, Stacy Parker Aab, and get her to convince her political connections to blow me, because I think being on the other side of the damn scandal would be so much better for my reputation because people will be all “Why should we give YOU control of the world?” and I’ll be like, “Um, because Obama went down on me” and they’ll be all, “Daaaamn girl” and I’ll be like, “Yep, keys to the world and a brownie, stat” and they’ll do it and my mom will be so proud that she’ll forget that this is the second post in a row that pretty much revolves around oral sex and that the last post was actually linked on a PORN SITE under the heading “related blogs on oral” that’s right next to a picture of a chick licking a lollipop and and and FINE I’ll totally link you to it but if you get fired from your job for clicking a link that basically opens to a slideshow of vagina, don’t come begging Stacy and I for a position in our Cabinet of World Domination. Unless you have a totally legit bribe. Like a puppy and a Tempur-Pedic mattress and a basket of raisin-less mini muffins.
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Heh heh heh…it's entirely too funny to follow along as you encounter all the good and bad deals of SF. If you enjoy the chaos that is the 30, you'll also enjoy the fun times that can be had on the <a href="http://everything2.com/title/Dirty+Eight">dirty-eight.
grrr – I suck with this whole embedded link deal…
Political boner. That's exactly how you describe. I. LOVE. THAT. SHOW.
This totally made my day. And I love that you love my boyfriend Josh's show. I watch for seven hours, too.
It's so cute that you think Josh is *your* boyfriend.
But….he just sent me flowers ….and a love letter….:(
just fyi that it's not actually a starbucks at barnes and noble. they just serve starbucks coffee. i was alerted to this fact when i tried to use a s-bux gift card there and got a big fat denied.
Good point – but, on the bright side, you can get 10% off their coffee using your Barnes and Nobel account (at least, it's worked when I try at the Bay St. B&N in Emeryville).
A friend of mine used to work at SB and also stated that the B&N SB is not really a real SB because those are still just Barnes & Noble staff just trying to work a coffee shop that sells Starbucks products..
"the mass elimination of situations that make me stabby" – if you figure this one out, please to tell me the secret. I think people might actually mistake me for an over the top optimist if we could get rid of the stabby situations.
"the mass elimination of situations that make me stabby" – if you figure this one out, please to tell me the secret. I think people might actually mistake me for an over the top optimist if we could get rid of the stabby situations.
i don't think i've ever heard anyone use the phrase "political boner" before, so it's only appropriate i heard it from you.
Honestly, I think that Starbucks just trains its employees to be shitty. Seriously though, I've been to numerous Starbucks' around the country, and all of them seem to have the exact same problem.
Poor customer service.
I think the closest I came, was a chick who asked me if I wanted the receipt.
Fail.
Linked to on a porn site? Total win.
I KNOW RIGHT?!?!
My bribe is $3.20 I found behind the cushions of my couch.
And a lollypop. But I wouldn’t eat it if I were you-it was also in the couch. Along with one sock who’s pair I threw out long ago.
But their all yours. Cos Australian money is worth sooo much right now.
Also according to the screen I’m reading here I replied before you even posted the blog… So I’m talking to from either the past of the future. Either way LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!
Being able to do shit from the future should have been your bribe. That's *much* more awesome than a lollipop.
You rock because:
- Even porn site like reading you
- You use phrases like political boner
- You get stabby every other minute but still haven't been arrested/sectioned
If you just jinxed me and I get arrested, I'm going to be SO pissed.
I hate those fucking multi-grain "bagels" with the raisins! Who DOES that?! Crazy people, that's who.
Naughty Teen Thinking, hahaha. Did you see the other "related" blog post: Oral sex + knife = baby ? Props for having amazing related blogs
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Um, NO, I did NOT see that! Oral sex + knife = baby?! God I'm in classy company.
You know, should you achieve World Domination, all you really have to do is make up policies, then your loyal minions (such as myself) would swing into action on your behalf. If you had to micromanage shit it really wouldn't be fun, and we can't let that happen.
Genius post as always.
"The annoying thing about going out in public is having to deal with all of the people who are incompetent and stupid and make me want to peel my skin off with a seafood fork" – Try not only having to go out into the world to see these morons, but have your job be completely about HELPING them. Ugh.
Also, the Starbucks locations within Barnes and Noble are totally Busch League. It's like the minor leagues of barista-ing
Dude when you take over the world, you can DELEGATE the tough stuff out so you can relax and watch the West Wing. For real.
Even though I lean more to the right than the left, I too, LOVE The West Wing. I love that they didn't dumb it down for the masses. You actually have to have a brain and not be afraid to use it to toally get that show.
Oh, and I hate humiliated grapes too. Why, for the love of all that is holy, do bakers have to ruin a perfectly good carrot cake by putting raisins in it. WHY???
One time I was eating slices of roast beef on the bus. I might be one of the people that make you want to peel your own skin off. But, in my defense, those were dire circumstances and I was HUNGRY.
And the whole porn site thing is great. One time someone came to my blog from the site thickmom.com. I still feel pretty proud about that one.
In some weird way I can totally relate to this post although I hate politics so much it makes me want to vomit. It may the world domination thing…..
1) I have a friend who worked in the white house for an internship. She is now a fake interior designer.
2) enough with the oral sex. What is wrong with you? You could probably leverage that into supplemental income.
3) Raisins can blow me.
I'm glad you liked the book! It totally seems like we women should get men to do the sexual favors to us. Because world dominations sounds like a pretty cool gig.
Thanks for being on this tour!
I’m pretty sure forcing the world to eat mac & cheese and watch west wing would cause world peace to break out and there would be no need for domination. It would be amazing.
Later, you're going to be faced with the urge to drink. Don't try to be a hero. Go with it.
I definitely think you should try for world domination. Once you're in charge you can just order people around and be as lazy as you want. It'll totally be worth the effort.
Your frequent inappropriate Obama references definetely have you on some kind of list. Hopefully this helps you in terms of World Domination but something tells me it's just going to detain you at the airport. Not that I don't have faith – I do! I'm kinda excited about a wino that says stabby controlling the world. Kinda. Excited.
I'm pretty sure you just made it onto the terrorist watch list. And like when that happens men in black LITERALLY track you down and knock on your door and then look all DISAPPOINTED when you are a white girl who weighs 105 and not really a badass hairy man terrorist that they can hog tie on the front lawn COPS style. I think they REALLY like that part because it involves butt to nut contact. But you know, not in a gay way.
This is the most true post I've ever read of yours. West Wing, Barnes & Noble, Lewinkski's roommate, the whole bit. Love love love
So I would totally give you a puppy, a fancy mattress, a basket of raisin-less mini muffins AND almost anything else you wanted if you could get Obama to go down on you. Better yet, I would give you even more if you could work out the same deal for me.
Get working on that.
Last night my fiancé told me I should become prime minister of Canada because I’d flip the country on its ass with my solutions to every single thing that is inneffectively run (aka everything). So I will gladly volunteer my services when you achieve this domination.
Can I be part of your regime? I promise I don't put raisins in anything.
Oh sweetie, I have actually had to ban myself from having a fag while reading your blog as I tend to choke on the smoke when I laugh out loud because I do! You make me laugh so much, partly because my brain runs on similar random linking lines that your does and partly cause your just so damned funny. Thank you xxx
Ok, I just found your blog today and…I think I love you. I know, so creepy right? But! I hate raisins too, I love mac 'n' cheese (a lot), I LOVE wine, etc etc etc. But also? I hugged Bill Clinton once! I had to faint on stage behind him in front of an audience of like 1,000 people, but whatevs because I hugged Billy C! Yeah it was awesome, and I want to do it again and I TOTALLY left with a political boner.
All that is to say…you are awesome.