Upstanding Community Members
And the pub, business dropped off a cliff, long days cleaning, the place is spic-and-span, the season apparently will pick up in another month. Fingers crossed. We're down to 2 staff members - Myself, and the chef, the other chef wasn't getting enough hours and so found a more reliable job at the hotsprings. She gave notice, then they terminated her, they were doing her "a favour" they tell her, and that if the owner wants to scream at her that's her right as owner of the business, and that she doesn't - the owner - owe any one an apology because she is, after all, the owner...
It's unbelievable.
The other waiter - 1 shift per week - 4.5 hours, and they ask me if I want his shift, if I do they'll lay him off, I don't - I need more work, for sure, but not at the expense of firing somebody else...they're proper corporate sociopaths...
But I know the remaining chef is looking for work, if he finds it the pub will close. The reputation they have in the community is well deserved and hard won, and it's definitely what they imagine it to be, I trust them about as far as I can throw them, they've done nothing to me but I've seen too much their treatment of the rest of the staff to deceive myself that my day isn't coming...
Keeping a full tank of gas in the Jeep just in case...
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Signposts...
And, in addition to the countless references to Java Mocha there are the messages in bottles and the signposts...generally laugh-out-loud and more so when you know who he's talking about...
Chinzy Candy is a reference to the owners of the pub...he's finding they're not so generous as they once were with him...there's quite a few references to Langs (cafe) and the Ass-Hole Gas guy...
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100 Odd Scrolls
And, in the past month easily a hundred scrolls from BatSh*t.
I've promised not to reproduce them, I have, and so I won't - but there are a few details that I just have to share.
First - his love of coffee. Almost every scroll features coffee:
a "java moka" tattoo drawn onto the leg of one of his stripper girls...
A Java Bath?
Coffee Pot with stripper...
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New Place
And, finally, the last 3 days in the trailer were a little bit much, below zero, out of propane, erratic power, swirling my foot around the space heater, a 6 inch radius of warmth, the rest of the trailer a freezer, now, for the first time in a year - for the next 6 months - a place of my own. It's been a long road but maybe I'm getting there...
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