The Date
He's two hours late for his reservation and the kitchen is closing up. But he's a regular, and so we keep them a little longer to take his order.
My day has just gone to hell.
The entire afternoon, serving a single table of two. Time I'd usually spend staring vacantly into space, or sitting down having a coffee. Or napping. But it's all gone to hell now.
He introduces me to his date, and as I'm the only person there, and by talent quite invisible they converse as if I weren't in the room. He has it all, all he needs now is a woman to share it with...
...and she, she's a little bit older and maybe not so interested right away, and so they talk about their children and their families...
and they talk and drink wine and more wine and talk some more. I do endless sidejobs, polish glasses, check on them every half hour or so, they don't need or want a lot of attention. But I'm there, close by, abstractedly eavesdropping....
The Cellphone Rings
And he takes the call...he's talking for a moment and then explodes at whoever is on the other end "What do you fucking mean! I'm pre-approved!!!".. and then the tone gets a little more conciliatory..."I make about a hundred, a hundred fifty thousand per year base salary, then there are dividends, another couple of hundred thousand a year...all told about half a million a year..."
He's without shame. This is possibly the most transparent and vulgar pick-up I've seen, worse even than the Bosses Nephew's suggestion that he be allowed to rape a girl in the ass...
When he's done giving out the intimates of his financial life he hangs up and apologizes to his date; "I have quite a temper" he confesses. There's no explaining why he was subject to the telephone audit, and she doesn't query him, it's a man's business after all...
I can't believe this hasn't been staged.
She's impressed with his temper and they leave shortly thereafter. Together.
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Jean Francois Rauzier Hyperphoto
Interesting collages of high resolution photos, juxtaposed imagery of famous locations with flash controls to zoom and pan.
Link: http://www.rauzier-hyperphoto.com/
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To Do In Calgary
And I'm puzzling over what to do for the child, something new, out of our box.
There's a few ideas. We've done the gun thing (firing off rounds at the Shooting Edge), seen Kung Fu Panties, now for something completely different....
There's the Kit and Kaboodle Circus, come to town for a few days only. Not sure if it's hopeful or not - let the boy decide.
There's Roller Derby's, which I'd love to attend but I have to work, and so I'll have to see if the boy can line up transportation and a date, I can buy him the tickets...
There's a huge list of films I'd like us to see, OK, not out of the box at all but they look promising: There's Transcendent Man with Ray Kurzweil, a rather curious view of the future. There's Resurrect Dead - a documentary on the Toynbee Tiles, There's Float - the documentary, on a model airplane competitions, and Exporting Raymond (hated the show but the documentary looks much better) and there's Rubber - The Movie.
All of which look excellent, the only problem is that none of them have been released in Calgary yet.
This weekend it will probably be the circus. And maybe an afternoon at Lloyds, he's never been but if the website is any indication he'll be well out of his box...
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The Honest Lawyer
I made that up and you knew it as soon as you read it, probably making it - if not the, then a very close contender for the shortest lie in the world.
By which I don't mean to suggest there's no such thing as an honest lawyer, surely there is but chances are he long ago sobered up, left the bar and took up a trade like carpentry or ....
Which would imply that he's no longer a lawyer and probably proves again the lie, but these are mere sticking points and before we paint all lawyers as thieves, criminals and sociopaths let's bow our heads for a moment and consider the carpenters.
A link: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Took+girl+cash+lawyer/4481302/story.html, Calgary Herald, similar reported in the Sun, that a convicted Pedophile and violent offender who abducted a 10 year old girl from a Calgary Shopping Mall did so, argued the lawyer, to get cash to buy drugs.
I am not making this up. Incidentally, Mr. Convicted Pedophile is also HIV positive.
Now in this opening argument every flaw in our legal system is made painfully, acutely obvious. Every single one. And the only thing I can say is that while the defendant surely deserves hanging (and worse), so does as well his lawyer, the judge who allowed the lawyer to finish that sentence, the judge who sentenced the defendant previously and allowed a sentence light enough that he one day walked free, in fact, almost everyone that's had anything to do with this case....
But such is Canadian Justice. If you ever want justice, real justice, start by killing the Judges and the Lawyers.
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