01 October 2005

Wienerschnitzel robbed again

My friend Lorelee moved to southern Illinois a few months ago. She's had a bit of culture shock. The deep south wasn't quite what she had in mind. She just got a job at a public institution which she describes as "a slight step up from the DMV."

Here are some observations about her new town and job:
  • She found out, on her first day of work, that a co-worker had been bitten by a three-legged dog.
  • There is a swine management department at the institution where she works.
  • The job she now has had been open for awhile before she was hired. In the mean time her office area became the area's junk drawer. Prior to her first day, however, they failed to clean out the cube. So the first item of business on her first day of work was to clean out her own work area.
  • To enter the area where she and several others work, you must go through a beaded curtain.
  • Cool and hot are relative terms. One day, which started out in the high 50s, she wore flip flops to work. She was was accosted by a co-worker from Missouri. "Are you insane? What do you have on your feet? I have wool socks on."
  • There is a "restaurant" in town called Wienerschnitzel. It is the hot dog version of McDonald's. It's been robbed three times in the five months she's lived in the town.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Bet you can't wait to vacation there!

~moe~ said...

That's hilarious! I miss Lorelee