Ah, Rockford...
Oct. 29th, 2011 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timelord1So, the town where I live has a bit of a...rough edge to it. It's like the 9th or 10th most violent city in the United States (of our size? I don't know, anyway, people were up in arms about it) - we're like the Detroit of mid-sized cities, I guess. Anyway, there's also a pretty serious lack of quality education. The fact that I can construct a sentence at all has more to do with my parents' insisting I grow up something of an intellectual snob than what I learned in school.
Anyway, so Mr. Timelord and I are going to go as a mad scientist (me!) and her fiendish creation for Halloween this year. I wanted an Erlenmeyer flask, and can't find a place in town that would have something like that. So I called this one local party store that has the best Halloween room in town. Bearing in mind the entire store is staffed by a bunch of snooty women - they've been around for decades, and no teenager has ever worked in this store. I think you actually have to be an uptight old broad who looks like they have a lot of money to even apply to work there. This is pointed out just so you know I wasn't talking to some young kid who didn't know any better.
Here was our conversation:
Me - Hi, I'm looking for an Erlenmeyer flask, like a mad scientist would have in their lab.
Clerk - Huh?
Me - Oh, sorry. It's kind of an odd shaped glass container. Sort of like a bottle, but wide at the bottom. Like they use in a lab.
Clerk - No, we don't have no glass bottle thing.
Now, as some of you know I am a grammar nut. I nearly burst into flames. Just had to share. Today's adventure: find an Erlenmeyer flask. Given the intellectual atmosphere of this town, it will probably end up being a road trip.
Anyway, so Mr. Timelord and I are going to go as a mad scientist (me!) and her fiendish creation for Halloween this year. I wanted an Erlenmeyer flask, and can't find a place in town that would have something like that. So I called this one local party store that has the best Halloween room in town. Bearing in mind the entire store is staffed by a bunch of snooty women - they've been around for decades, and no teenager has ever worked in this store. I think you actually have to be an uptight old broad who looks like they have a lot of money to even apply to work there. This is pointed out just so you know I wasn't talking to some young kid who didn't know any better.
Here was our conversation:
Me - Hi, I'm looking for an Erlenmeyer flask, like a mad scientist would have in their lab.
Clerk - Huh?
Me - Oh, sorry. It's kind of an odd shaped glass container. Sort of like a bottle, but wide at the bottom. Like they use in a lab.
Clerk - No, we don't have no glass bottle thing.
Now, as some of you know I am a grammar nut. I nearly burst into flames. Just had to share. Today's adventure: find an Erlenmeyer flask. Given the intellectual atmosphere of this town, it will probably end up being a road trip.
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Date: 2011-10-29 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-29 04:12 pm (UTC)Rude (and not ginger) TL1 shouted "REALLY?!!?!? You DON'T GOT IT? Well shazam!"
I was not popular in hs hee hee
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Date: 2011-10-29 04:05 pm (UTC)Well, on the bright side, a road trip is fun! Your costume sounds awesome!
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Date: 2011-10-29 04:17 pm (UTC)Actually had a police helicopter fly overhead searching for a murderer in our neighborhood about a year ago. Turns out he was hiding out in a house 2 blocks away. And yet, do we move? No. We're saving $$$ to move to England. :)
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Date: 2011-10-29 05:36 pm (UTC)You spelled "Pittsburgh" wrong :-)
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Date: 2011-10-29 09:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-29 05:09 pm (UTC)Hee! I'm not commenting on grammar. (My worst grades are always in grammar and English. I'm not sure how they let me loose in Honors lit.) :P
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Date: 2011-10-29 09:29 pm (UTC)Don't feel bad - I'm the opposite. No maths, please. :)
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Date: 2011-10-29 05:38 pm (UTC)Good luck with the search! Maybe a parent-teacher store would have them?
LOVE the costume, though! Pics or it didn't happen...
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Date: 2011-10-29 09:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-29 09:38 pm (UTC)WHUT?
*HEADDESK*
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Date: 2011-10-29 10:16 pm (UTC)No wonder I'm always inside, crankin' out the fic, eh?
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Date: 2011-10-29 11:30 pm (UTC)Gods...safer that way, lol!!
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Date: 2011-10-31 03:32 pm (UTC)no subject
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